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^^ which is the situation with my upcoming trip. If the Indy Pass tail weren't wagging the dog, there'd be a) $800 in lift tickets for the two of us, b) more driving, c) additional lodging changes (trying to minimize all of the above).

I won't contest the general point; however, as Tony has noted many times, you're able to move far more easily through the Alps and choose an appropriate ski area for a given day or week than in the very spread-out U.S. west. A favorite exhibit was the second week of March 2016 when I went with...

Titus should make a bigger deal of that in their marketing: a "made by real people in northern NY State" pride thing. Do they cannibalize their retired chairs for replacement parts? It must be challenging for the very few ski areas that still use Halls (e.g. Plattekill, Smuggs, Monarch) to find...

Harv racking up powder days in the awful east. Is the table below still accurate? It's a Hall museum?

Sez the guy who just scored a fantastic trip. I realize that you had to move a number of chess pieces into place but as they say on The Sopranos, "oh, poor you!"

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Not earthshaking news but I revisited this report for the first time since posting it seven years ago and saw that the season after I skied at this area directly east of Salzburg, they replaced the 1957 gondola (and sold off the iconic red and yellow cars for €3,000 each) with a new six-seater...

I've watched more clips of people violently ragdolling like that and they almost always walk away -- or maybe they don't and the clip prematurely cuts away. How do you not end up with a broken neck?

Who swallows the 35 or 50% loss on that? The operator or the person who'd booked the seat?

This'll bolster Indy Pass's already strong presence in western New England: Jay, Smuggs, Magic, Bolton, Burke, Dartmouth, Middlebury, Berkshire East, and Saskadena, along with Owls Head and Sutton in the Eastern Townships (would be great if they could add Orford)...

I'm obviously fascinated by this topic (I was a volcano geek as a kid). Considering what happened there combined with our country's propensity to err on the side of nanny state, a flimsy rope at the bottom doesn't really communicate "don't even THINK about going here" (that's the wording you...

And the Southern Tier and Montage. Shouldn't we be done with LE after the long, brutal cold snap?

No one likes a showoff. :icon-lol:

Impressive how the skier (is it @skiandgolfnut?) is kept in frame so nicely in this headcam clip. It's only mid-season but I think we can safely bestow a "best 2025-26 powder photos and videos" award for this report. 🏆 Tony and I were dreaming of these conditions when we skied there during a...

This just in: Nice that they're now sending an official heads-up about a key international-travel detail. Remember this bracing incident nine years ago (which called into question my road-warrior bonafides :icon-redface:)?

I've brought up many times in the past how many skiers I see on nonstops from JFK, EWR, PHL, etc. to Geneva, Zurich, and Milan -- and those are only the ones who dress in clothes or carry bootbags on the plane that identify them as such. My perception is obviously anecdotal so it would be...

The comment about surface lifts in Switzerland was hearsay from someone on a lift in far western Austria, Brandnertal, 11 years ago; however, I never reality-checked it. Here's what our favorite faux person has to say and I asked the question in a neutral way, without putting my thumb on the...

Wow, nice score!

Here's a current series of reports from the guy I met last March who lives near Klewenalp alongside Lake Lucerne. He appears to be getting the same situation that I did in SLC during the 2002 Olympics: not many people there. He hit Sölden and a few places in South Tirol along the way. Looks like...