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I'm going to throw heavy lake effect areas in there as well. Less frequent occurrences than prob northern VT but it does happen sometimes (I experienced it a few times during my Eastern years).

I had to switch from phone to computer to see this awesome TR. The east side is certainly perfect for low angle groomers. Also love that the Electra is back to being a thing after decades of being off limits. I never understood the triple chair loading with cattle pens and lights, etc...

Just to point out just how bad it is this season, below is a map showing the open terrain at Eldora as of today Jan 9th. This is usually about where the map is for open terrain by about Thanksgiving to early December-ish in a more typical year. I'm sue they've been blowing snow the past couple...

That many visits apparently equals a ~$120M price tag for Eldora.... Vail has really, really fallen behind in doing any lift improvements. They have an enormous fleet of lifts and yet only install like 3-4 new or replacement lifts per year. That is unsustainable long term. I can only guess that...

I currently have no idea on this, but I know I will hear from many up there about the change when it gets close to happening and they spell out the official town benefits for them (which has not happened yet). Most likely.

Now for the town to figure out how to market and issue bonds, get a special use permit from the USFS, beg Ikon to keep the current deal going, figure out how to transition employees en-mass to being town EE's (total town population is only ~1,500 so current number of town EE's is TINY), etc...

Not surprised at the fallout. And also not surprised that this seems that it will go on longer than most strikes: https://www.denverpost.com/2026/01/08/telluride-ski-patrol-strike-protest/

Hope he is recovering nicely at this point.

Understatement. I get the sense (reading between lines) that the first couple months is simply doc's seeing if I truly fully stabilize or if I show signs either direction of slight better or even possibility of worse. Thanks. At one point I was even told that even being at the hospital...

I'd describe Colorado snowfall season to date as Pitiful. Crazy long stretches of warm air as well so far, so tons of even snowmaking trails are not open yet. Pretty easily the worst I've ever seen it in my 27 years here. I mean Abasin has like 9 'trails' open with no new terrain coming anytime...

This has to be a near perfect year to visit the tiny places in NY. Enough snow to be fully open (or close), and ski them at their absolute best with likely no one around.

I should update everyone on this. Given the slightly goofy way that seats opened up to me last spring I had originally set to go with a couple of my guys trip buddies, one at a time. One Jan trip, One Feb trip. With my departure from both trips the Jan trip taker decided to move his slot to...

I haven't looked for updates today, but I know Telluride gave a slightly upgraded offer to patrol (and then immediately issued a press release on it, which seems like a dumb idea). Deadline they gave to patrol was sometime late today.

The fun part of those lift lines is that probably 90% are locals coming out of the woodwork for a pow day, but they all fervently believe the lines are exclusivly from Ikon destination skiers. As they say "We have met the enemy and it is us".

Here is the latest update from today. Just remember the town is already months behind plan for closing the deal. Hints of future competence level for thier ownership. https://archive.is/zreer

Hah, this is extreme liberal politician country in Boulder County. They view all businesses as something that should be heavily taxed and sucked dry. Powdr Corp doesn't much care about Neds plan; they just want max price to walk away with. You did nail it though. Once they had the idea and...

I give it this season and next before it starts to fall apart. Nothing the town can change for this season and next they try to replicate a normal season as they have no idea what they are doing yet. After that they will want to start pulling $$ out of the resort to fund the town and I think top...

Interestingly, having never met the man I'm quite certain I know exactly how Chuck thinks and operates. Eldoras owner prior to Powdr ownership was nearly identical. Tons of terribly stupid decisions, constant creating strife with the town and mtn user groups, refusal to partner with anyone...

Understatement. Outside of Wolf Creek, which is at least open (though thin), Colo has been a place to avoid.

Mammoth sure is developing a bad rep for unsafe avi control procedures. They should have a much better system in place by now. Injuries and deaths to Patrol almost every year recently. Not good.