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I'm surprised that I beat EMSC to this story, which is 11 days early for April Fools, so it must be true? Company behind Montana’s Yellowstone Club coming to Colorado with similar development near Steamboat Springs: article. Here's what looks like a previous plan to redevelop the old ski area...

A Washington Post article about why we should make the effort -- clearly ghost-written by Tony.

Remind us of your Utah tiers and whether they're still based purely on terrain and conditions or if you're also factoring in horde repercussions (red snakes in either direction, parking, lift lines, powder frenzy, inability to get reasonable day tickets, etc.). Feel free to move this to the...

20 years ago on the Epicski forum, I posted a thread with these very same photos/subject line from our 2003 visit to Tirol, which included Zell am See, Saalbach, Kitzbühel, Ski Welt, Westendorf (then a separate resort), Alpbach, and Auffach. We went there after stumbling upon a preposterous...

After landing early yesterday morning, I skied with Tony and Liz at Courchevel then drove on to Val d'Isère, where we're spending four days. People have been asking me for years why I hadn't been there given its sterling reputation so I decided that it was time to put up or shut up and...

Finally a bit of measurable snow for the northeast (with the Catskills in the wheelhouse); however, @jasoncapecod has a caveat for it.

By Sunday, my sixth and final ski day of this inaugural 2023-24 trip, various early-season aches and pains in my legs and hips had become more pronounced, so I took my time getting out of the hotel and didn't arrive at my destination, Toggenburg, until 10:30 am. Growing up in Central New York...

On my way back from St. Moritz, the obvious suspects for Saturday without an extensive detour were: a) Arosa/Lenzerheide b) Flims/Laax c) Bivio d) Savognin The latter two were preferable due to being directly alongside my driving route. I ultimately decided on Savognin, keeping in mind the...

As mentioned in my report, there were still some visibility issues at Corvatsch on Thursday; however, the stars finally aligned on Friday with clear blue skies at south-facing Corviglia. The only weather anomaly was big winds the further you got up the mountain, with some gusts easily above 30...

I arrived Tuesday morning in Zurich, which was being pelted by driving rain. While walking through ZRH airport, I came upon something I've never experienced before on ski trips over there: a monstrous customs queue for non-Swiss and EUers. There were only two customs officers assigned to handle...

18 Ski Days 4 Solitude, UT 1 Belleayre, NY 1 Bardonnechia, IT 2 Serre Chevalier, FR 1 Puy Saint Vincent, FR 1 Vars, FR ½ Ceillac, FR ½ Arvieux, FR 1 St. Véran, FR 1 Les Contamines, FR 1 Megève, FR 1 Bonneval sur Arc, FR 1 Val Cenis, FR 2 Les Trois Vallées, FR A happy return to non-pandemic...

With optimum spring conditions in the forecast, I ran up to the Catskills where I met Harv and a couple other skiers from his forum, including Ripitz, a Patrick-level skier who has become a verified New York Ski Blog phenomenon for posting stunning reports about paddling through the Hudson...

Following a number of weather-related challenges on my second visit to France this season (only one really good day amongst the first four and I sat out Day 5 due to a storm), I finally got a measure of payback on Days 6 and 7 at a place that is definitely not a "James ski area." That said; even...

After the previous day at Megève, which felt at times like a visit to the Scottish Highlands, I relocated to the village of Avrieux at the entrance of the Haute Maurienne region. Overnight, it snowed at elevation and cleared up by morning so I decided that the above-treeline locals ski area at...

As an opening act for an unpredictable week of weather in the western Alps, Fraser warned me that yesterday would be a mixture of snow, rain at lower elevations, fog, and other unpleasantness, so I decided to ski a half day at somewhere with a lot of trees and Megève was the call. My wife and I...

Given the all-over-the-place weather forecast for the western Alps over the next four days, I almost pulled the plug on this trip literally while bringing my bags to the car for the drive to the airport Monday afternoon, but in the spirit of adventure, decided to carry on with it. Following...

You never needed a photo storage site to post on FTO or other forums. They're supremely unhelpful because once a) the site stops operating for whatever reason (many have) or b) you stop paying the monthly subscription fee, the pix you've posted are unlinked and poof, they're gone. It's really...

This should get Baldy open: o_O

For what ended up being my seventh and final day of this visit, I drove less than 20 minutes from my B&B in the village of Guillestre -- a very convenient and charming headquarters for this region -- to the large interconnected circuit called the "Forêt Blanche" (White Forest) consisting of Vars...

For my second and last day in Queyras, I went to the largest ski area in the region. I already had a good feeling about this place because the unbelievably well-traveled Euro skier from Alpinforum, Starli, has been there at least four times, which is a recommendation in itself. Here's his 2019...