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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.

Patrick has been retired (other than from his Dec-Mar ski coaching) for about a decade. Family responsibilities seen to have shifted from his now grown daughters to the mother-in-law in France. The latter situation can actually facilitate some tough months of the streak. Hands-on management...

I believe that is true but have seen no data. But many times I try to start a conversation on a chairlift and the Bluetooth skier next to me hears absolutely nothing.

I finally reached Patrick. I'm sure he was in Banff to ski August somewhere but he didn't say where. He's going to visit his wife's family in Europe mid-September, so he'll get something there, even if it's indoors like last October. He's already home from Banff because he has to be in...

That's most of it. But in Santiago, Chile and environs average September precipitation is no more than half of what June and July are, while average precipitation in March in Utah, Colorado and the Alps is just as much as in December/January. Then you have the latitude which makes Portillo/VN...

Are these injuries on the rise? A cursory Google search says yes. While overall ski injury rates are fairly stable, collisions now comprise 20% of them vs. 10% 10-20 years ago. Why do I think this is? 1) Lift capacity has increased faster than open terrain, so skier density is up. 2) The...

The wheels are turning very slowly on this. Lonnie found an attorney in Colorado to file the civil case this past Feb. 19, just one week before statute of limitations would have expired. The boarder was supposed to have been served July 5, but we now find out that a receptionist was served...

On Feb. 16, 2024 at Breckenridge Lonnie was struck by a snowboarder, shattered ribs and "tore a hole in his lung." Lung had to be drained for 3 days; ribs were repaired with 7 copper plates, 80 screws and 250 stitches. Lonnie had a concussion and lost 3 hours of memory. He is still in brain...

There was a NASJA Zoom on this topic in 2012. Unfortunately I was in India at the time and I have not been able to find a transcript.

I do too. But the intelligence community told him the odds of that were "farcical." They have also told every administration since Carter that any attempt by the US to force regime change in Iran would be met by a closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Have you read the Maggie Haberman account of...

The Buenos Aires taxi driver incident was in 2009. Patrick still returned to South America in 2010 (decent conditions) and 2012 (very marginal). I am truly puzzled by this year; I'm guessing there are extraneous non-skiing factors we don't know about.

You have never crashed a pond skim? That is me on June 20, 1982. I discovered that skis do not float. Fortunately the pond was only 3 feet deep.

This is no different from reduced advance bookings following bad snow years 30-50 years ago. That's just the way the casual ski consumer (and most people) think: short term recency bias.