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My 50th birthday present of a day skiing at Silverton didn't look too promising from a snow-and-weather perspective for Sunday. A warm and sunny Saturday was followed by a single inch of morning fresh, with a few flurries tossed about in the wind as we headed up from town to the base of the...

It looks to me there's some pent-up demand for some space to rant on this topic (or any topic, while waiting for the snow to fly) here's my list of lifts that are annoying to have to ride or annoying (re) alignments that don't make any sense. Telluride's first on my list for poor lift...

Drove up from the desert on Thurs. nite, snow started pounding as we started over Vail Pass (and didn't stop until the same point on the way home Sat. am). It's a ways beyond a lot of good skiing from home to the Basin most of the year, so I don't get there every year. With the day's weather...

Looks like a powder day, and we ( myself and my girlfriends brother) decided to hit the local area, Powderhorn, rather than drive 2 hours each way (more like 3 based on snowy road cond's) to Vail or Beaver Creek. This turned out to be the right call, as it was one of those storms that favored...

Heading up-valley Friday night to Snowmass under thickening clouds, we were looking for a bit of fresh powder each day. The first few flurries brightened in the headlights as we turned to the base village. Sat. morning dawned with thick gray clouds moving fast, no new snow, but 1-3" at least in...

The forecast called for a few inches of snow overnight plus a few more during the day from a warm SW storm. We (myself and my girlfirend's brother) decided on BC instead of Vail, mostly because of the recent extended dry spell, and minimal wet new snow made the back bowls not-so appealing...

Note: This post is an attempt at rebuiding the original, which was brutally whisked into the cold vacuum of cyberspace as I hit the "sumbit" button on Sunday. this time I'll ctrl^C it just in case Snowbird Thurs. Jan 8th. I've only skied Snowbird about 12 times over the past 35 years, but...

Our just-completed long-weekend trip to Utah, we spent with family in Ogden, but since that was partly just an excuse to ski Utah, we also spent one nite in SLC so we could ski LCC. We went el cheapo on Hotwire, 3-star-- got a place for $50 bucks which turned out to be Chase suites, on South...

5 am snow report-- Zero new. But the weatherman promised snow, and the first flakes were falling as we left home for the commute up the valley. 140 miles of snowy driving later, we were at the top of the Centennial lift with about 7" new snow at about 10 am. We spent the morning exploring...

First day at Snowmass this year was a terrible disappointment, especially in contrast with the snowy bounty in early Dec. last year. The recent storms that hit the Summit County areas left Aspen with only a few inches. We went up for the weekend, but spent Saturday hiking east of town, then...

All the Summit County areas are now open with snowmaking, and I was tempted enough to head up for a weekend of early-season turns. Unfortunately, Vail Resorts marketing of the Epic/Colorado passes to locals brought out enough ski-crazed (and board-crazed) people that the few lifts and runs...

Here's some more pre-season diversions... Ever looked up while riding one of those snazzy high-speed quads and wondered "How does that thing work?" or "Why am I not plummeting helplessly to the ground?" Fortunately for all of us, ski lift operation is tightly regulated in most states, unlike...

Looking for skiing-related amusements to get me thru the annoyingly persistent warm, dry fall weather besides attempting to warn my ski-legs to get into shape, I found this..... In the late 60's-early 70's, my family lived in Pittsburgh, and had passes at Hidden Valley. I was 8 to 10 years...

For some reason the FirstTracks forum site appeared to be in a white-out on my computer for a few days earlier this week, but here's a belated report. My plan Thursday night was to ski Vail on Friday. Friday morning, 6am scoping of the situation revealed the following: 12" new snow past 24...

What a great way to start off the season, with more than enough powder to play in! Driving up Friday nite, I was starting to worry, but finally the steady rain turned to snow at the turn-off, 4 miles and 500 vertical feet from the base. Saturday morning's report: Last 7 days 48" Last 48 hours...

Here's some pics of my tree; and photos for testing of my meager image attachment abilities. Let's see if I've got them sized just right..... They don't show up in the preview, I'll just hit *submit* and let the moderators pick up the pieces...they're all JPEGS less than 110k, 600 x 800 or less...

Saturday I spent the day at Powderhorn, and took advantage of the demo day test skis of K2 and Salomon. Right now I've got Salomon Pilot 10's, about 4 years old, those replaced my old original yellow X-screams, which were my first shaped ski, and the last time I'd demoe'd anything. What! I have...

The storm that was forecast to dump a foot or two of fresh on the San Juans flaked out and left behind only 5" -but that's as much as fell anywhere else in CO this week (in our driving range) we decided to venture South to Telluride. The official report was 50" on top, 49" mid mt, /PP. After...

Today's the day to be at Snowmass, with 10" new and blue skies. But we were there yesterday. The conditions were good but no-where near great. (41" at midway, 60 on top) the extremely firmly packed groomers had some gravelly areas peeking thru, and there's not enough base yet for good skiing in...

Our visit to Steamboat Springs this past weekend helped remind me why it's such a great place to be (and ski) We found an el cheapo deal thru central rez on lifts and lodging, in an older motel (but clean and quiet, with a hot tub - Nordic Lodge) downtown, which included skiing Friday afternoon...