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While they are comparable for resort size and skier visits, the regional setting is completely different between Southern California and Australia from a cultural and general population standpoint. Just as what happens for skiing in California for mountains of similar size is quite different...

Used to be more of an issue. The fix for iPhoto pics was to edit the pic, even if the edit wasn't really a change. Been a while since that was discussed on another ski forum. Apparently a recent update in July 2025 messed things up again. Supposedly will be fixed in the next update . . ...

According to the article, VR went public in 1997. That's when the name was changed from Vail Associates (VA) to Vail Resorts (VR). Adam Aaron was CEO then, and continued on until 2006. Aaron is now CEO of AMC Entertainment. He is not a skier. Had been leading a shoe company before being...

Apparently Rob Katz was 58 in May 2025 when the announcement was made that he would become CEO again. The first time he was supposed to be looking for a new CEO when others decided he should just do the job himself. He worked for the finance company that was trying to figure out how to make VR...

Sorry, I was remembering stuff wrong. My home hill in northern VA built a 2 mile pipeline several years ago from the valley up the mountain. Serves the slopes in the winter and the mountain golf course in the summer. The stream on the mountain tougher with one small snowmaking pond wasn't...

Oof, confused the Ski With A Friend with the new Epic Friend category. I only bothered to get an Epic Pass once during a season I planned to spend enough days skiing in Colorado to make it worth it. Don't pay close attention as a result.

Correct. It would be pretty expensive to build a pipeline from the lake for snowmaking at Tamarack. It's not that close. Back in the early stages of the development of Tamarack, the locals seemed pretty intrigued with the idea of having snowmaking infrastructure given the amount of natural...

August 13, 2025 https://valleylookout.com/2025/08/13/were-hitting-it-as-hard-as-we-can-multiple-wildfires-ignite-near-tamarack-resort/ ". . . Overnight response The fires were reported shortly after 10 p.m. on Tuesday, at which point Williamson said firefighters were immediately deployed. “We...

Blue Mountain in eastern PA supported the fight against a fire last fall. Not so much with people, but with access to water for the firefighter use. Obviously very different scale compared to western wild fires in heavily forested areas. November 2024...

Slight change in strategy for 2025-26. Buddy Passes are history. The replacement is called Epic Friend Tickets, which are good for a 50% discount regardless of location or date, no blackout dates. Can apply the cost of one Friend Ticket to a 2026-27 Epic pass. Storm Skiing has a chart that...

You haven't traveled around the South much, have you? In addition to fried seafood, there is plenty of fried chicken. ;) Mainly shrimp or crawfish or crab along the Atlantic coast south of Delaware. Even heard of Rock Shrimp? We get them when we stay in Orlando. Worth a day trip to a small...

Unless someone really wants to be oceanside, I think of reasons to live inland. My aunt lived in Ft. Lauderdale for the last decade or so of her long life. She had a condo on the coast with a view of the ocean. More than once she had to evacuate because of a hurricane. She was a professor...

In New York City when I was in elementary school in the 1960s, a lot of the K-12 teachers as well as professors were Jewish. My father was a professor at Brooklyn College, part of the City College of NY (CCNY) system. The NYC public schools were usually closed for major Jewish holidays. Not...

To me, Dartmouth and Brown are in the next tier for Ivy League. I grew up in New York City. Lived very close to Columbia. My older brother attended Harvard. In the 1960s, he attended a long-time "magnet" high school in NYC (Bronx Science, founded 1938) for science/math geeks and was more...

What I found more interesting is the info about the source for The NY Times quiz: " . . . Those who say bubbler are proud of it, and not afraid to defend it – it’s an icon of the Boston accent. However, the word bubbler is not native to the Bay State. There are two regions in the United States...

There are a lot of former New Yorkers who moved to Florida in the last few decades. ;) In the Triangle area of North Carolina it's very hard to find "natives" who grew up mainly hearing southern accents. In fact the town of Cary came to be known as Containment Area for Relocated Yankees by the...

Interesting, since I didn't screenshot the overall map I did the quiz again. Got some different questions. This overall map is fairly similar from what I remember. But the question "What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?" made a city in FL one of the key three instead...

I vaguely remember seeing that quiz before. Given that I moved from NYC to Chapel Hill in central NC in high school and stayed in the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) area after that, the results now reflect where I've lived pretty well. Plus I went to school in the Boston area for a...

Don't think you would say that after a long visit to the Boston area and the Massachusetts and Maine coastline. I went to high school near Boston. Trips to Boston or Maine usually include lobster, although not always a lobster roll. On one trip a while back with my husband and his old friend...

More about Oregon and liability laws that impact the ski industry. June 30, 2025 https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2025/06/30/timberline-lodge-oregon-rec-liability/84422125007/ July 2, 2025...