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Over the years, John and I have skied Whitewater, Red, Kicking Horse, Revelstoke, Apex, Silver Star, and Big White before or after our three days at Mustang. We had not previously been to SP. This year, in light of the weather history (rain and warm temps all the way to the top everywhere in...

After skiing until the lifts closed at Lost Trail on Friday March 24, we drove to Philipsburg, MT. In light of the weather and the advice of locals we took a longer route to avoid Hwy 569. Lodging options are limited in Philipsburg. We stayed at the Kaiser Hotel where Tony and Liz stayed...

After three days of spring skiing at Whitefish we headed south to chase predicted snow, first to Lost Trail on Friday 3/24, and then to Discovery over the weekend. It snowed less overnight than the forecast had predicted. LT reported just three inches in their morning snow report. However, with...

A couple of months ago, my wife and daughter and I decided to ski Montana and/or Fernie and Castle over spring break. We picked the region for its low-hassle factor, with an abundance of quality skiing in resorts with comparatively-affordable lift tickets, low skier density, free parking not far...

In the thread that followed from EMSC's report of his tour with Mustang, we discussed Avalanche.ca's warning that this year's snowpack in the region may be the worst in 20 years, including a layer of faceted November snow at the bottom of the snowpack that is likely to continue to pose problems...

My daughter and I enjoyed skiing at Mad River today. Last weekend’s storm brought MRG 24 inches of snow that started as heavy and wet and dried out as the storm progressed and took the mountain from mostly closed to mostly open. By today, however, conditions were . . . variable. On one hand...

I think we had the best snow I have had at Mustang over 6 tours (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022). We arrived Friday evening February 18 and skied Saturday the 19th, Sunday the 20th, and Monday the 21st. It more or less snowed the whole time, although the storm was more intense on the front...

Not just the in the open ocean. For example, rogue waves have been confirmed on Lake Superior and are considered one of the more credible theories regarding potential cause(s) of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975. https://www.lakescientist.com/did-rogue-waves-sink-edmund-fitzgerald/

We do a week-long wilderness canoe trip every year. Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW, often simply referred to as the BWCA) is a gem, but often "crowded" by our standards during summer school break. Accordingly, we prefer Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park which is just...

tseeb emailed me last week to ask how things were in Minneapolis. I found myself writing a long response and then building upon what I had written as the days and nights passed and I responded to more emails from concerned friends and family. Here's the gist: We live about 3/4 of a mile, as...

My daughter's spring break starts on Friday March 27 and ends on Monday April 6, 2020. She does not have a week-long mid-winter break which means spring beak is what we have to work with if we want to take a full-week ski trip anytime other than Christmas. Of course this means we are looking for...

John and I skied Silver Star from 8:30 to 12:30 on our Mustang pick-up day. Three inches of new snow in the parking lot and on the front side was somehow about boot-top deep on the backside, where there are some very nice sustained steeps and some good tree skiing. The snow was very low...

My wife, daughter and I skied bell to bell (12-3:45) with a few dozen other skiers and had a blast. The couple of inches MRG picked up on 12/23 bonded well and ops’ decision to cut the trail count and wait a few days before resuming grooming paid off. The groomers were almost perfect...

After Friday and Saturday’s big rain, MRG cut their trail count to 22. The base looks adequate, but they have been letting the mountain drain. With yesterday and today’s colder temperatures, there’s a lot of ice around. It snowed an inch or two this afternoon, but my daughter and I were pretty...

I'm thinking about a 4-day weekend in January with my wife and 13-year old daughter. We would fly out of MSP on the evening Wednesday the 23rd and return to MSP on Sunday the 27th. Although I would prefer a destination with lower skier density, Colorado is attractive for this trip because the...

The forecast for Sunday April 8, the last day of our trip, called for about 4 inches of snow, with slightly warmer temperatures at LL. However, in town on Saturday night, it was snowing pretty hard when we went to bed so we were optimistic it might snow a bit more than forecast. Just in case...

This was the first day of our trip without any fresh snow. It was also the first day of our trip during which I found any spring snow, but only in the afternoon in the Goat’s Eye chutes. Otherwise, good packed-powder conditions were prevalent everywhere, although we did not ski down to the...

This trail climbs about 1500 feet to an overlook on the shoulder of Castle Mountain, not all the way to the summit. The trail is almost 5 miles round-trip. We all had come down with a pretty bad cold at this point, so the pace was pretty mellow. Temperatures were again in the 20s, with clouds...

Another mid-winter day in April. High temps in the teens, and another 2 to 3 inches of fresh pixie dust on a reliably packed-powder base. My wife took a lesson in the morning, so my daughter and I spent some more time working on powder, steeps, and intimidating alpine exposures. We started...

We had seven full days in Banff, but only skied five. We hiked the other two. On Wednesday, April 4, we hiked the ever popular Johnston Canyon trail. It was busy up to Lower Falls, at which point we lost about 75% of the other hikers. Above Upper Falls, we saw no one. We found some ice...