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I'm guessing these name changes don't show up if you load Google Maps from an IP address outside the USA. Perhaps sbooker or a Canadian user can verify this. As for the idiotic new Canadian tariffs, evidently they are somewhat narrow in scope and a plaintiff has yet to be found willing to file...

But not foreign airlines per James' experience? My friend Richard and I did that once. He used my miles to fly Air France to Morocco. I used his American miles somewhere in the South Pacific I think. Richard had a lot of business travel when working for Transamerica, retired at the end of...

I'm fairly sure we can ski gravity from El Colorado to the Valle Nevado ticket office on day one, show our Ikons and get the local resort card. The Valle Nevado–La Parva interconnection add-on seems not worth the hassle for us if you can't even find out its price online. It must be easier...

Enough so that Extremely Canadian had a break after well over a decade of running trips there. Las Lenas is on their website now, so perhaps they have resumed. I recall seeing the old avalanche debris around the Neptuno lift in 2015. That picture of Gregg Wardle on Eduardo's is scary if you...

I finally got around to reading Jimmy's chapters on the Pyrenees. I don't know if he chased the conditions but he certainly scored on the trip in his first book. There was a huge snowpack, 4-5 meter drifts with avalanche damage to some road guardrails. The trip was in early spring with...

@Patrick: I have no clue what is being referenced here.

Yes, you might be able to get to La Molina for an afternoon of skiing. And Liz can advise you on the Gaudi architecture sites (we visited five) in Barcelona if that interests you. James might even find a French tour guide! :icon-lol: We noticed that Catalan signs had some words that...

Is that due to you having IIRC over the years with Delta, minimum Silver status gets you one free bag on primary partner airlines; Gold gets you two. I get the same result as James with Google search: the credit card alone does not get you a free bag on a partner airline. A wise policy, as...

The thread was started by Russell Miles, a true new user, and was not promoting a product. BryanL's promotion of the ski mirror was a response not a thread start. Furthermore Bryan actually checked with James before doing it! Former admin was strongly opposed to threads initiated to sell...

I'm already committed to Sept. 16-19 in Farallones! There was a significant snowpack disparity in 2007 between Portillo and La Parva, and I'm sure that will happen again this season eventually. That would be my expectation. I have monthly snowfall for Las Lenas in 2007 and half the snowfall...

Well, that's embarrassing.:icon-redface::eusa-doh::icon-redface: I have probably approved more new members in the past month than in the prior 4+ years I've been the FTO admin. It's still not a large number, maybe 10-15 people. The approval requests are not very descriptive. They only have a...

That looks delightful. With the much lesser snowpack vs. Portillo is there any concern about that snowpack holding up for another month?

Yes. 7.5 inches at VN and 37 at Portillo. This season yes, and overall long term Portillo gets more, which I believe CaseyE agreed with recently. But all of these areas suffered intensely during most of the past 15 seasons. Portillo's season total is now 359 inches (Valle Nevado is at 210)...

We are open to offbeat ideas. What's offensive (and explicitly prohibited by the OG admin) are users who are only here to sell merchandise. When a new user's first post is a solicitation, some people get suspicious.

Not sure why this is a state secret. If you tell us what you want, maybe someone here will have a constructive suggestion.

I have no status with United. I have 459K United miles thanks mainly to credit card use. I just browsed United's website. The Explorer card (which I think James and I both have) caps the PQP status credit for card usage at 1000 points per year. If you want to use a United card towards...

????? It's directional? The partner won't charge flying EWR to Europe but will on the return flight? I have never flown United or a partner for skiing, but I did use their FF miles for the southern Africa trip in 2024 and had no bag fees. The outbound leg used Lufthansa but the first flight...

All presidents after FDR and before Carter are missing, along with Reagan and the Bushes.

Patrick confirmed he skied Parker Ridge last Friday and Sunday. He should get both September and October in Europe. Val Senales, Hintertux and Pitztal are scheduled to open in late September, and several more glacier areas the first week of October.