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Yea, I forget the exact dates but I believe my daughter would start the first or second week in September and the first trimester would end before Thanksgiving; then she would have 5 or 6 weeks off, through Christmas and New Year's (avoiding the cold and dark month of December in Minnesota), and...

Yea, my daughter had a somewhat similar schedule when she was in college in Minnesota. They were on trimester system and the first trimester ended right before Thanksgiving; then, they would have the entire month of December off and they would start up again in the first week of January, so she...

https://news.yahoo.com/el-ni-o-back-bringing-155547125.html Story from the LA Times about the possibility of another strong El Nino for next Winter, into 2024.

Just looked at the webcams for Grand Targhee. Snowing moderately hard there today and still looks like mid-winter. They've closed for the season but are allowing uphill climbing. It's a shame that, in a snow year like this one, they close down so early but I guess they run out of paying...

Yea, you can run only so many gates before terminal boredom sets in (unless you're Mikaela Shiffrin).

Nice views from your son and daughter-in-law's piece of land. Are they planning to build a house there ? Move there permanently?

I remember that day well, you skipped work but didn’t let me skip a day of AP Chemistry for Baldy powder. Hell, I would have INSISTED that my daughter skip AP Chemistry to ski with me on a day like that!!

I don't mean to quote Donald Trump, LOL, but might this fall under the category of "fake news"?

Yea, Tony, I've lived in New England most of my life and there have been some lean winters over the last 60 years or so, in terms of snowfall and lack of consistently cold weather, and even during "heavy snow" winters, there are almost always thaws and rain events. But this year seems especially...

LOL, there is that adage in the journalism business: "never let the truth get in the way of a good story". Of course, I am sitting in my home office, here in New England, on Feb. 10, looking out at green grass in my back yard. 50 degrees here today at 10:00 AM. I'm thinking about hitting some...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/thousands-of-records-shattered-in-historic-winter-warm-spell-in-europe/ar-AA15TT83 A story today about the record warmth across much of Europe. Not sure how this is affecting ski conditions throughout much of the Alps?

Yea, Chris, no doubt the tragedy of NE skiing. And I don't know if it is climate change or global warming, but it seems like we are getting more and more warm spells and more and more rain events, with each succeeding "Winter" in the Northeast. It's just one reason I would never want to own or...

Yea, EMSC, definitely a "Hun'tah" element there (when my daughter and I pulled into the parking lot in the morning, someone in a Porsche SUV was doing "donuts" in the parking lot. Huh?). No, Tony, I do not have an Epic pass. It cost me $78 (as a senior) to ski today. If I had bought the ticket...

Skied Hunter Mountain in New York today (12/21/22) with my daughter. Unlike the Berkshires about 60 miles to the East, where I live, Hunter and the other ski areas in the Catskills, got 12-18 inches of snow from the storm last weekend (it was 35 degrees and raining in the Berkshires) and it was...

Looks like Targhee is now almost 100% open (94 of 95 trails) and JH looks to be about 70-75% open. Been a good start to the early season in the northern Rockies. Big Sky does not seem to have as much terrain open.

Just looked at the webcams for Grand Targhee. Looks like the middle of winter there already.

My daughter lives in Montreal (grad student at McGill), is an avid skier, and buys one of those cheap season passes to Bromont. I may drive up this winter for a weekend of skiing with her at Bromont. Is it worth the 4.5 hour drive to ski there (Patrick)?

See story below on the snowmaking setup for these Olympics: https://time.com/6146039/artificial-snow-2022-olympics-beijing/ Apparently, the snow guns that the Chinese are using were bought from an Italian company (but it doesn't say whether Italian personnel were responsible for actually...

From what I have heard and read, some of the racers have complained about the snow conditions on the race courses and other racers seem to be OK with it. I believe, on many of the World Cup race courses, they "inject" water on to the courses to "firm them up" and many racers like skiing on those...

Yea, very ugly. As I mentioned previously in this thread, it looks to me that they must have done a tremendous amount of "earth moving" to create those "trails" on the mountains. It does not look like "natural terrain" to me?