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What a throwback our weekend in Syracuse was. Felt like the 70s all over again: cold as hell, driving through unplowed streets, great grey north.

An interesting question about subsidies and how much of a role they play in the bonkers (to us) lift infrastructure at many resorts in Europe. I suppose that I should know about them but I don't. As you've seen in my reports, the obscure places that I visit clearly don't get government money...

Handheld scanners, including those that work with RFIDs, went the way of the dodo bird by the mid-00s over there. Back then 20 years ago, the only place where I skied in the U.S. that had the turnstiles was Solitude.

Below is a recent post on the Alpinfans forum with a couple :smileyvault-stirthepot: (but not inaccurate) thoughts. Regarding the uphill transport comment: as we've noted, worldskitraveller's itinerary included dozens of small/tiny indie places -- our version of the "James areas" that I favor in...

I obviously don't use that site for details about Euro ski areas, and especially not for North American ones, just for where they're plotted on a map. I decide whether to visit them or not by checking out trip reports on British, French, and German forums.

I sent him that question. I suspect that he uses the same website that I do for Europe. Click on the map link.

I'll present all of the questions to worldskitraveller and ask him to answer as many or as few as he likes.

The immediate question is "why bother?" (and it hasn't snowed at Mammoth in more than a month?) but as a non-expert who doesn't have the thrillseeking gene, I've learned not to ask that.

Likewise. Looks great.

Au contraire! He was mildly impressed by it and wasn't expecting a ski area in New Jersey to be decent-sized (apples to apples for the northeast). He said conditions were nice -- as they were throughout the entire midwest and northeastern segments of his trip -- and it was a good conclusion.

I interviewed him last night while he was at the airport and we discussed some of the comments/critical observations made here. Will post next week.

Apologies for taking up your limited time on this TV question.

I don't believe that it happened when I skied with Tony; however, I have vestibular/balance issues that make me freak out a bit with serious exposure where the conventional wisdom for most people is "keep your eyes on the path in front of you; don't look to the side at the thousand verts below...

I suppose we can use this thread as a catch-all for Aussie popular culture, not just music. I'm curious what @Sbooker thinks about the TV series "Fisk," which my wife and I have been bingeing on Netflix. We find it hysterically funny, especially lead actor/showrunner Kitty Flanagan, and are...

Nice piece. Glad to be able to read about it because I wouldn't do well with a bootpack descent like that.

Takes us back to this talking point. As ugly as "hoagie" is, it's better than "grinder" (New England).

Today is worldskitraveller's 41st consecutive day of skiing (along with a fair bit of driving)! :icon-eek: As part of his introduction to Pennsylvania, I underscored the importance of the Wawa convenience store chain to the mid-Atlantic region (if I'd met him in my native Central New York, he...

They installed a HSQ in 2010.

As his 2026 North America tour winds down, worldskitraveller let me know that he'd be in the Poconos today. Even though I'd just returned from Denver late yesterday, I couldn't pass up the opportunity and scooted over to Shawnee for opening bell to join him on his first-ever ski day in...

Tony and I had the "daily driver" discussion while at Serre Chevalier during a snow drought. I told him that his mid-90s didn't make sense for me when you're skiing mostly onpiste hardpack or offpiste with a bit of loose snow. People always swear that their mid-90s "are easy to get on edge" but...