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Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions. So far, the only item reserved is the hotel Elk and Avenue in Banff. Looks fairly nice. See link below. I'm not sure if we have the option to cancel if something else looks better? Probably the next step is to make airline reservations. I can't fly...

You know me too well, Tony! (see bolded section). I'm not totally adverse to a road trip vacation (in fact, I like "scenic driving") but for this ski trip, I think the plan is just to go to Banff and ski the areas around there. I don't think we want to be schlepping hours all over western Canada...

My wife and daughter surprised me last night by telling me that my combined birthday/Christmas gift this year will be treating me to a late February/early March trip to Banff to ski with my daughter. My 28-year old daughter who lives in Montreal has already planned some of the trip and made a...

My wife and I went to a wedding on Nantucket this past June (June 20, so mid to late-June) and the weather on the wedding day was TERRIBLE. Cold, windy and raining and it was an outdoor wedding, under a tent in the backyard of the bride's parent's fancy house, but still exposed somewhat to the...

We have quite a few coyotes around our house and I sometimes hear the "yipping parties" that they do; it's somewhat eerie-sounding, frankly. Also, quite a few fox, bobcats (they're beautiful animals) and our neighbor across the valley from us claims her son saw a mountain lion bounding down a...

I was out on the eastern end of Long Island over the weekend and stopped at a famous "Clam Shop" on the Montauk Highway between East Hampton and Montauk and got a lobster BLT. It was $42 but included a generous portion of very good french fries and delicious cole slaw. There was a LOT of lobster...

Yea, when I first saw him interviewed as the Vail CEO several years ago, I thought he was still in high school. Very young looking for his age. Not sure how old he is now and whether he has "aged".

Yea, but a lot of those people live indoors in AC for 5 or 6 months. Barely go outside, unless to grocery shop or do some other errands. They're not necessarily going out to ride 40 miles on a bike or play golf for 5 hours in the relentless heat and humidity. Not a great way to live but many...

Yea, trams are not very efficient in terms of uphill skier capacity, but I think a tram that goes up 4,000 vertical feet (like JH) makes somewhat more sense than one that goes up only 2,000 vertical feet (like Cannon). Other than the novelty and history of the Cannon tram (that I've ridden a...

Not sure where to put this and, mods, feel free to move to another thread; but an interesting study on changes in the Winter polar vortex and how that has affected Winter weather in the US. It does explain the lack of any real snow storms in the Northeast for the past few Winters...

Thanks, Tony, for that info about Springfield. Yea, I live about 50 miles west of Springfield and but at a higher elevation (Springfield is 70' above sea level and I'm at about 900' above sea level); we're probably slightly cooler than Springfield. What is the definition of "muggy" that you are...

Yea, at least in New England, I'd stand by my estimate of 10 to 25 hot, humid days, as a rough estimate.

I've lived in New England most of my life; I would say that in the "old days - the 60's and 70's and possibly the 80's too), we used to have, maybe 5 to 15 days of hot, humid weather (ambient temperatures over 90 degrees with dew points above 70); but it seem like in the recent decades (last 15...

There's a blast from my past. I grew up in central Massachusetts, about 20 minutes, or so, from "Ski Ward" (called "Ward Hill" in the old days). I, more or less, learned to ski there. It is truly a bump of a hill, 220 feet of vertical. I believe, if my memory is correct, that my junior high...

Yea, I would normally never pay the extra cost to upgrade to business class when flying (although I'm tall - 6'3" - so sitting in an economy seat for any length of time is almost (pure) torture for me); I too would rather spend that extra money on better hotels; nicer meals, etc. But my wife and...

Very interesting analysis! Thanks for the AI inquiry. I guess competition does, sometimes, work to lower costs for consumers (even if customer service has gotten much worse).

The food looks considerably better, too, than the measly bag of pretzels that you get on most flights today.

I'm not sure Spirit or Frontier would even allow you on the plane, IF you showed up wearing a suit and tie!

and would get dressed up - suit and tie usually or a dress for women - to fly on commercial airlines!

snowing today at Grand Targhee. Doesn't appear to be accumulating, at least at the base.