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Liz wanted to see this. She recalled reading about Lake Manly reforming after Hurricane Hilary in August 2023. The flood damage was severe enough to close Death Valley National Park for 2 months, and when it reopened some people kayaked there. The November atmospheric river that snowed 3+...

Paul ventured over to Vail yesterday and said that Christmas is going to be a disaster. Avanti and the two lifts out of mid-Vail are the only ones open for skiing. You must download Lionshead gondola at the end of the day because it hasn't been cold often enough to make enough snow at its...

Today I drove to Mt. High to refresh my age 70 pass. Similar to the last two years, I hung around and skied the 2 WRODs that were open. Chisholm: Wyatt: Borderline is the park but features are currently modest with limited snow. Here's the natural coverage on Headwall, the site of Liz'...

From Larry Schick: We are currently skiing Whistler Dec 1-12. They just opened harmony today ( thu) with excellent coverage. I don’t remember what their early opening schedule was before Vail. I think mountain management is pretty good here with avy work, grooming and getting things open. I...

I also have to ask Patrick since he's been in Europe for a couple of weeks. Was he able to find a TV at 2AM local time last Sunday for Game 7 of the World Series? By e-mail he said he attended the Blue Jays' comeback games against Seattle in the ALCS.

Given Harvey's role running NYSkiBlog, I see the logic of this project in the first year of retirement. I'll be interested in whether he expands his horizons in future seasons. Consider hitting the road for three months at mostly Indy Pass areas in western North America for example. This is...

Not skiing, but we finally got a rare deal to Ecuador in late November: 32,000 miles +$99 per person round trip. But as I mentioned elsewhere the Galapagos are overall not a bargain destination. We are doing a one week naturalist cruise but going early for two land based (Santa Cruz)...

https://www.powder.com/news/mustang-powder-purchased-by-heli I don't recall whether it was posted here, or I heard by e-mail that Nick and Ali Holmes-Smith had separated and were selling Mustang. They also own Great Canadian Heliskiing in the northern Selkirks/Purcells.

I have been collecting snowfall data from North American ski areas since 1992, with some data reaching as far back as the late 1960’s. Summary data for 116 locations are on my website bestsnow.net and I have over 80 of these every year since 1989, over 60 since 1982 and over 30 since 1973. The...

Driving from Mammoth May 9 I got a call from Jane Wyckoff, Far West Ski Association Convention Chairperson. FWSA awarded me the Bill Berry Hard News Award for 2025 So she asked if I could attend the annual convention in Palm Springs to receive it. I said yes, and when I got home and examined...

We stayed in Visalia Wednesday night and drove to Mineral King Thursday morning. I had been up there for a quick look in 2006, but we were committed to most of a day this time because 7 miles of the road is closed for repairs 10AM-4PM weekdays. We were escorted one way at 9:25AM after about a 15...

On the evening of June 3 our Visit Visalia hosts took us to a Single A minor league baseball game, where the Visalia Rawhide (Diamondbacks affiliate) defeated the Inland Empire 66ers (Angels affiliate) 2-1. Visalia mascot: This lady umpire was busy around the bases. Single A games have only...

I was invited to the Outdoor Writers Association of California Spring 2025 Conference, hosted by Visit Visalia. Visalia is in the Central Valley between Bakersfield and Fresno and is the gateway to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. There is minimal lodging in the parks, and the only...

Today's weather was similar to but perhaps a bit warmer than April 30 last week. It was sunny with a weak overnight freeze, though I suspect Mammoth has been salting more groomers overnight. There was a glitch today. Chair 2 was down from about 7:45-11:30AM. Fortunately neither Tseeb or we...

Since he's not bothering to post the links himself: What’s up? Eastern Closing 2025 – Week 1 April snow – Eastern Closing 2025 – Week 2 Late Easter, late skiing – Eastern Closing 2025 – Week 3 Late April : Eastern Closing 2025 – Week 4 May it! –...

I should have known when Tseeb declined my invitation to join us at Mammoth that we might get a primo corn day. :icon-razz: This has happened 3x before. We got out at 8:30 Tuesday morning to clear skies and a solid overnight freeze. What got my attention first was a race course starting at the...

Weather indicated we should do something other than ski on Friday and Saturday April 25-26. So we visited: Lake Shasta Caverns Redding's Kool April Nites classic car cruise Empire Mine State Historic Park We stayed in Emigrant Gap Saturday night, half an hour west of Sugar Bowl at 5,100...

We took our best shot at clear weather to come here this week. Next week looks unsettled and May 4 is the last day Cloudchaser and Northwest lifts will be open. Forecasts were in general correct for overnight freezes in the mid-20s and high temps in the mid-30s. After the long two day drive we...

Weather is full on spring this week, but with the clear skies there was still an overnight freeze. So like most spring days at Mammoth we could find pleasant snow conditions as long as our legs could hold out. We got on the hill 9AM, met Elissa and skied was partially softening Stump Alley...

The Sierra storm this week was first predicted to last most of the week, but when it was revised to wrap up by Wednesday we decided to ski Mammoth Thursday/Friday. An unexpected bonus was that the top did not open Wednesday. We were not up there as soon as we should have been. We parked across...