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Adding a couple of photos of Tony Crocker taken before 945. This was our first or second time going under slow but efficient Nob Hill chair that we rode a couple of times skiing from steeper Lower Main towards not running Rock Garden chair.

Sierra-at-Tahoe, CA Febuary 11, 2026 Sierra reported 8" new vs. 7 at Kirkwood and 6 at Heavenly. We loaded Grandview chair before 9 and skied Castle but found very hard surface underneath the new snow on nearly all turns, especially on W-facing lower. N-facing Lower Main and Nob Hill were...

Heavenly, CA and NV February 10, 2026 We could have both skied for free at Sierra-at-Tahoe but @Tony Crocker wanted the higher altitude of Heavenly so we drove the 1 mile to CA base. We parked closed to ticket office and bottom of Gunbarrel chair that we loaded not much after 9. He bought a...

Kirkwood, CA February 9, 2026 After watching most of the Super Bowl in Santa Clara, CA (from my wife's son's house Levi's Stadium where I worked for a few years in retirement - the flyover), I left home after 7 on Monday and after a few stops got on lift at Kirkwood at 11:30. I took a couple of...

Skied Kirkwood today 1130-330. Very firm in most places. High in upper 30s and windy. You wanted to make turns where snow had been deposited vs. where it had been scraped off. I dropped my rock skis that had some damage from 4 December days at Mammoth for tune-up afterward. Only almost lost it...

Your slide on Monument had much better ending than unfortunate one on Drop Out 2 on the same day. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/skier-dies-expert-run-mammoth-213307189.html

My wife and I plan to be there that week for SkiTalk Gathering. We arrive YYC after 6 PM on March 22 have rental car and are staying at Banff Aspen Lodge. Our flight home is on March 28 just before 7 PM.

Found on SnowBrains while looking for something else: Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed After Skier Dies in Avalanche During Mount Bailey, OR, Cat-Skiing Trip A lawsuit was filed last Friday in Deschutes County Circuit Court and seeks over $14.5 million in damages for the death of Brian Thomas...

From Snowbrains which I always take with some skepticism: "Utah’s snowpack has fallen to its lowest levels on record for this point in the season, with nearly half of the state’s monitoring sites now reporting all-time lows, according to data shared by KSL News. As of February 1, 67 of Utah’s...

Even though I've been retired for 15 years, I still have some responsibilities at home with elderly dog and mother and try to limit days I'm away, so I usually don't use your "Madrid or Barcelona, and then just use discount airlines" and "Give a few hours or overnight. Then a cheap ticket...

Heavenly, NV and CA Saturday January 24, 2026 I think Heavenly was the only place with unpredicted new snow. Snowline was ~8K and it was only ~0.5 inch, maybe a little deeper in Milky Way Bowl and on the right side of Big Dipper along trees that blocked the Evil East Wind. But it came after...

I don't have as complete records as @Tony Crocker but probably didn't have 40K+ days before I started tracking in 2003-04. I have the following: Bachelor 2/18/15 45.6K on my way to first time at Mustang with Shigella after spending night in SUV at Sunriver Brewing parking lot Heavenly 4/5/17 41K...

This column was written before people working for our president killed another American in Minneapolis and then lied about it again.

Friday, January 23, 2026 We didn't start until 910 as it took a while to get my son up, then he had to pack as he quit skiing and left to return home after about 4 hours. He made breakfast burritos with leftover from night before carne picada and scrambled eggs. And he took a two-mile so he...

Would also like to hear how new ownership is doing since I will be there for my 7th time in less than a month. Any changes? Better/worse in any areas?

@jimk has been posting about his trip to Europe with his son, wife and more of his family. I haven't kept up with all of his posts or had time to read the last couple of pages here as I'm not likely to ski in Europe this winter. See...

Kirkwood, CA January 22, 2026 I left our SLT cabin at 8 and turned into Kirkwood 45 minutes later and parked where cats cross road by Timber Creek base. My son was on his way from Santa Clara so I took a few laps on chair 7/Timber Creek/low intermediate hi-speed quad to be close when he arrived...

Kirkwood, CA January 21. I didn’t know until Tues evening when I was going as if my son wanted a ride, I would have driven him on Thurs. He had a remote interview on Wed. for a job at Stanford that he did not want to do from parking lot (or lodge). I arrived much earlier than planned as our dog...

OpenSnow's Tahoe post for today ends with: "I don't like posting that we're screwed, but we looked screwed for at least 2-3 weeks this morning. Pray for another miracle to arrive sooner than later... Stay tuned...BA"

Sample the Sierra vessel is not glass. It's a plastic cup they gave out at event we walked to with friend who came over from his place at Kirkwood to park where event was held a couple of miles from my family's cabin. It was on my last birthday, and we got ride back with friend who was staying...