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Hi, we've finally decided to try going carless on a trip to Breck, and taking an airport shuttle instead of renting a car. This is a first for us, so I was just wondering if anyone has had any either very good or bad experiences with the 4 shuttle services that are operating from DIA. Thanks...

This was our 3rd full day skiing Breck. Weather conditions last 2 days have been miserable (Sunday it was the temp, yesterday it was gale-force winds, which closed a lot of lifts and created huge lift lines), but surface conditions have been good. Today, the surfaces were showing the effects...

Interesting article posted by Joel Gratz on OPensnow about how a meteorology class looked at how weather forecasts of various lengths of time in the future performed against reality. They just looked at temperature predictions. They found that forecasts of more than about 10- 11 days in the...

Have been skiing Breck the last few days, and while the surface conditions aren’t as nice as they were at A-basin Saturday, they’re really pretty good, considering the warm spell a few days ago. It seems that there wasn’t as much melting as you might expect, and the few inches of snow after that...

Flew in to Denver late last night, and stopped at a-basin today on our way to Breck, starting skiing A-basin around noon. Snowing off and on all day (at least after we arrived). Having read the reports of the warm temps the last few days, I expected some pretty crunchy surface conditions. But...

Planning to spend a few days at Northstar, and am debating what kind of vehicle I need to rent from the airport. On past trips, I always just rented a small SUV, and it was almost always a 4WD. But now it seems the car rental agencies have thought of a new trick. You get there to pick up the...

Hi, my wife and her girlfriends are headed for PC for their annual ladies' ski clinic the first week in Feb. They're planning to ski PCMR and DV. If anyone knows of any tix available for a reasonable price (ie, significantly less than Canyon Sports), let me know. Thanks!

Hope this doesn't run afoul of posting rules (and I'm sure Admin can re-post if that's the case), but I just got news of a very nice fare sale on a few dates on SW airlines to SLC and Denver (and maybe other places). The sale is today only. I booked from DC to Denver Feb. 27- Mar. 5 for $134...

Wife Sarah and I skied Heavenly Dec 16- 18. First 2 days were stormy, with several lifts shut down (Sky, Dipper much of the time, sometimes Tamarack and Canyon), but surface conditions were superb. Even in deep mogul troughs, you never hit any left-over crud from the rain a couple of weeks...

Wife Sarah and I had a great first day (for us) of the ski season at Kirkwood. First time there, and we loved it. They claim to have gotten 21 inches from the storm a few days ago, and with the cold temps, it was well preserved, so surfaces were powder on ungroomed and packed powder on groomed...

We're hoping to make use of our Vail group passes to get in a few early season turns before Christmas, so I've been keeping an eye on Summit Co and the Tahoe area. Summit hasn't been looking very good, but Tahoe has gotten a few decent dumps, yet they don't seem to have much terrain open. In...

I saw the news that Wisp is in bankruptcy and negotiating with 2 potential buyers. Anyone have any info on who they are? We haven't skied Wisp the last few years, but it's the best we've got within a reasonable driving distance for a weekend trip from the DC area, so I'd hate to see it close. :-(

The lesson I take from Breck on March 25 is that when you’re in the freeze at night, thaw in the day cycle, you shouldn’t get out too early, but you’ve also gotta be careful of being too late, especially on a warmish and very sunny day. We took our time getting started, and did our first run...

Once again, as in early January, my wife and I were planning a week trip to the Summit/ Eagle County area of Colorado, but decided at the last minute to go to Wolf Creek for part of the week. This time our decision was due to the fact that the Summit/ Eagle resorts got 1- 5 inches from the...

For the last day of our trip, my wife and I decided to ski Brighton, notwithstanding that we were staying in Park City. We always have a soft spot in our hearts for Brighton, and I was also curious how the mini-drought was affecting it. I had skied there Jan. 31, so I could make a...

My wife and I skied DV Thursday and Canyons (Sarah's instructor got us half-price tix) Friday. Our expectations were not super-high, but for the most part surfaces were not bad. In both places, there was in most places adequate packed powder on the blue groomers, and the ungroomed was fun as...

Following Tony's (and others') season-pass-be-damned advice, our little group re-booked, and we're headed for SLC instead of Heavenly. Given subsequent developments, this looks to be a very good move, so thanks to all for the advice. \:D/ BTW, our friends are flying Southwest, and had NO...

My wife and I bought Vail group season passes (seemed like a good idea in April, after last season!) and are flying out to Colorado this Saturday for 6 days of skiing. I’m painfully aware of the drought conditions :-( , but we’re trying to be philosophical. (After all, until this year we’ve...

A few years ago, I bought a pair of Heat-X battery-operated ski gloves. I've had a number of issues with them over the years, and now one of the rechargeable batteries has died and is outrageously expensive to replace, so I won't be doing that. Even though these were never quite satisfactory...

Had a great time at Brighton today, and not just because of the skiing. But first the ski report: Started out on the Snake Creek and was surprised to find that they had groomed almost everything – even runs that in my limited experience at least they've always left as bump runs (like Ziggy...