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Today's Snowbird website https://www.snowbird.com/the-mountain/mountain-report/current-conditions-weather includes: "Conditions permitting, Snowbird will be spinning 11 lifts today. Due to recent weather conditions at the top of the Mineral Basin chairlift, work on replacing the gear hub has...

Monday I drove 65 miles each way to 2nd cousin's house in Tracy to catch ride to service for another 2nd cousin in Chico and hit 325K. Note that I am 10K overdue for my 4th timing belt (~$1000 job that my mechanic said he thinks I'm OK holding off for another 5K miles). On my trip to CO and UT...

Avalanche hit cars near Snowbird.

Edit previous post to cleanup a typo or two and add "MANY FACESHOTS" to 'Snow was deep' skiing Little Cloud. I'd thought about skiing a couple of runs on Sat 3/15, but did not. It was enough to get all our stuff to SUV and make most of the ~800 mile drive home. I purposely had left a suitcase...

It was a great day to be staying across the street from Snowbird. We only wished the Interlodge ended well before the road opened. There was a lot of bombing beginning about 5 AM that we could feel a little and hear a lot. I saw buses about 9 AM which meant that road closure ended about 845. I...

Beers I took to pool/hot tub my first afternoon at Iron Blosam and some of view of Snowbird from our balcony. Both were very good but were too much for so early in evening. Since then, I've been taking one beer and one water.

Some photos of @Tony Crocker in mid-Cirque on Tuesday This is not Tony Crocker. I tried to catch him when he was getting close to me, but mostly missed and caught someone else. I was very lucky catching up with group after using points to stay at Springville Best Western Monday night. I...

Hoping road opens well after 8:30. Just heard some blasting that sounded like it was coming from behind Iron Blosam. We need to do the long drive home on Saturday as our dog will be dropped off by our son, after staying with his friends for two weeks, hopefully in very late afternoon. I'm...

Latest news I could find about Mineral Basin. No updates found on Snowbird's website although did find they plan to replace it and Gadzoom with six-packs but no date given.

My wife has Southwest credit card and a lot of points from using it and I have a few point. I have Alaska VISA and we both have a lot of points from using annual $99 companion fares, mostly to Mexico where $99 ends up being $250 due to International fees. Alaska lets everyone on booking made...

Crowds not bad. Looked like the Town Park may have filled, or gotten very close to it, but they have dirt overflow that did not get used. The only lines I experienced were ~10 minutes on Cirque Poma that I rode early and line never went down, and about that long for unmanaged singles line on...

Snowmass, Sunday March 9 We parked in Town Park (former Rodeo lot) and were quickly shuttled to Snowmass. We loaded Village Express not much after 9 and skied Sunnyside to Big Burn that went up. We skied Sneaky’s and stopped for photo where run makes 90 degree turn. I next went into Campground...

You can discount opinion Maddow (who my Mom calls "that horrible woman") has of Trump's first and second term, but what do you think of her claim in the link I posted "The Washington Post published a memorable report on the number of false or misleading claims he’d made during his first term...

Tomorrow is Snowmass, then driving to Moab. Today I took shuttle to Highlands, caught 2nd chair and hiked the Bowl for probably my last time. My wife stayed at Buttermilk. We had light traffic from Basalt to Buttermilk and found a space in shuttle part of the parking lot. Lucia had late start...

Friday, March 7 Buttermilk Our drive from Copper to Glenwood Springs was uneventful although left turns on main road once in town required long waits due to heavy traffic coming down the valley. We had a very good dinner at top-rated tripadvisor restaurant along the river. I was not sure where...

Not sure when I'll have time to write-up Tuesday (9" new but hard surface underneath often found) and Wednesday (7" and getting better). Thursday with another 2" new was the best day. Lucia and I skied out of Lodge at Copper where we had stayed 3 nights to nearby American Flyer lift that we...

Monday, March 3 - my first day ever here although I've driven past it a few times. Leaving Steamboat on Sun, we drove about an hour to Kremmling we were spent night. Their brewery/distillery has stopped distilling and had limited beers on tap. Friend and I each had Peruvian chicken potato soup...

State of the Union speech fact checking from MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-speech-fact-check-joint-address-congress-lies-rcna194848 includes “The problem is made worse by the apparent fact that he felt like he had to lie — likely aware of the unavoidable fact...

British Airways flies one roundtrip SFO-LHR daily using a 380 and another using a 777. We flew the former on our way there last Sept and the latter on our return. I remember seeing stairs in the rear going to the upstairs on the 380, but they had a chain and a sign, so I did not go up them. We...

Since I don't have the luxury of spending months within 10 minutes of skiing and never get enough, I make the most of my days. I know this is a UT thread, but don't have time for full report from Sat. at Steamboat where it may be extra crowded due to Winter Wondergrass festival (that also...