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My best exercise 1990-2019 was step aerobics. Besides the cardio, all the lateral motion was great for skiing. I never felt there was any gradual warmup period for ski seasons those years. Sometimes opening day here means top of Mammoth steeps in high density snow, so you need to be prepared...

Not superhuman. When you get out on the snow you are active. But when you stop you will probably get sleepy right away. Early to mid afternoon is when I’m likely to zone out on arrival day if I’m not active.

We definitely want to see the TR's, fine if they are after you get home.

:eusa-clap:Whitefish is a bit more resistant to rain than Red/Schweitzer/Fernie, glad it worked that way this time. In 2003 I switched a day from Fernie to Whitefish in similar conditions. Is this the first time I've convinced you to go there? I was fortunate to learn about Castle in 1999...

It will be 8 days off when we get to the Alps next week. But yes my circumstances may be changing. My stamina for skiing has never been quite in Tseeb's class but it was not far off that to age 70. So overall I look at the glass as more than half full considering what I was doing during...

That won't happen in LCC but will happen elsewhere in Utah. Thursday/Friday were fairly typical spring skiing (high temps ~50F) that LCC probably experiences a fair amount between storms in April. In March the softening process is slower, aggravated by the time change. Snow softens by the...

is lie flat as far as I'm concerned, even though it didn't work that well for me when we paid $200 apiece for it flying Frankfurt - Johannesburg in 2024. But Liz said it was well worth it for her. The other time we got it (for free) was Perth - Melbourne in 2023, both slept soundly the whole...

Does James' method still work for him without a flat seat? I'm not consistent. About half the time my experience is like EMSC's, the other times more erratic, "shallow sleep" off and on for 2-3 hours. Liz really needs a good seat setup to get decent sleep on a plane, usually meaning lie...

Snowbird has a good base. See the recent TRs. The bad scenario is cooler weather with no new snow, which was last Tuesday/Wednesday and this past weekend. The sunny days have good spring skiing, which unfortunately means starting around 11AM thanks to the time change and Utah's far west...

Max rain/snow line this week at the Banff areas is 2000 meters, and it will be below the base of the ski areas starting Saturday. Is there any place you would rather ski in western North America the last week of March this season? I can't think of one.

I'd play it by ear and make a last minute call within the reliable weather forecasting window of 5 days or so. There is little margin for error in a season like this. You need a sunny week with Summit open, especially since Northwest is closed. But I would ask for the deferral first. This...

Pic of Fendels from Serfaus-Fiss in 2022: Maybe part of Kaunertaler is in upper left corner.

James a while back said he was able to score a full row in the back to sleep. This is very much a rarity in redeyes from LAX in my experience.

Fraser thinks there was enough snow to ski up there even before the recent storm. So it's likely we will revisit Zermatt sometime during our upcoming trip.

Yes that was an unfortunate schedule constraint. Pitztal and Stubai should have been scheduled when full days were available. I think Kaunertaler Glacier is on Indy too but I don’t know any details about that one. James has it right about the 11AM AltaBird starts after the time change and...

Any jet lag I get is usually worse coming home than going regardless of direction. Travel is usually active, which gets me into the local time faster than whatever busywork awaits me when I get home.

This week is the first where I see widespread declines in eastern trail counts. However Vermont got a decent shot of snow this weekend to arrest and possibly reverse the decline.

Another rare sign of this season is the number of western areas with less terrain open March 15 than on Feb. 28. These include: Big Sky Jackson Snowbasin Park City Steamboat Aspen/Snowmass Monarch Purgatory Taos A week from now I suspect we will see an acceleration of this trend. On a...

My record solo drive was 13+ hours from Lake of the Ozarks, MO to Auburn, AL, 740 miles, but included 4 Tesla charge stops totaling about 90 minutes plus an hour at the New Madrid Earthquake Museum. On my just completed 5-week 4,186 mile road trip the max drive in one day was 550 miles. James...

I believe my record solo was 13+ hours and 740 miles in June 2020 from Lake of the Ozarks, MO to Auburn, AL. However those hours included 4 Tesla charge stops totaling about 90 minutes plus an hour at the New Madrid Earthquake Museum. Today is the last day of what will be about 4,200 miles...