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The snow surfaces remain bad. Two inches Monday into Tuesday helped a little. Every sort of combination of coral reef with death cookies, to rock hard pack studded with real rocks like you’d find in a low snow year in the East, to too-short stretches of silky wind drift that skied like a dream...

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Elk is, well, the best I've skied in Pennsylvania so far. My other forays into Keystone State skiing include Spring, Bear Creek, and Blue Mountains, and Shawnee Peak. So Elk being the best in PA is faint praise, indeed. At 1000 foot vertical, it skied better and longer than Blue, which lists a...

Bluebird powder day! Boot top or better, everywhere you went. I skied with Tony, the grain farmer from Indiana that I met during yesterday's workshop. Several off of Supreme. The skiing was phenomenal, especially in the trees. A local on my first chair ride speculated Ballroom would open...

My birthday present is 4 days of skiing in Alta. Flew in from PHL through DFW Sunday night. Flights were uneventful, other than the 3 gate changes in DFW due to a LGA bound plane that went mechanical and blocked our original gate. Arrived at Gold Miners Daughter around 9pm and settled in...

Hi FTO friends, What's my best strategy for obtaining reasonably-priced lift tickets this year at Alta for Mon-Thu, Jan 18-Jan 21? Snowbird is optional; I would go the AltaBird route if I have tour guide(s) who want to do that. I will be staying at GMD and would enjoy meeting up with anyone...

Staying at the Peruvian. A different vibe from Gold Miner's Daughter where I usually stay. I like GMD better; food, location, and rooms are nicer. Haven't had a lot of snow here in Alta lately and temps were in 40's, 50's at the base at the beginning of the week. Predictably, conditions are...

If any FTO'ers will be around, contact me here or at jkamien(at)biopsych.com if you want to meet and make some turns. Over 11 feet of snow since Mar 1 and the forecast is for snow every day. I made the call for Crystal about a month ago based on Tony's stat of 130% of normal and it's only...

Sometimes (not often), I wish I still lived in LA! http://www.shopbaldy.com/MultiPromoDetail.lasso?id=sys4hi3shm9

Hey FTO'ers, I am going to grab a precious (for me) ski day at Baldy this Sunday after a weekend of work at the LAX Marriott (yech). Black pants and blue/grey Dakine day pack skiing red/white/blue Stokli's. Say hello, or backchannel me at jkamien@biopsych.com if you want to meet up. Jonathan

Arrived from Newark NJ at SLC a bit earlier than scheduled and grabbed my bag in short order. Thanks to the Quickstart promotion, my friend Chris and I headed to Deer Valley to take advantage of free skiing at a pricey place. We had our butts on the the Silver Lake at noon, which I was pretty...

An outside chance exists of me relocating to Lucerne, Switzerland. :-o What are the best options? How far is really good Swiss skiing from Lucerne??? Anything within an hour's drive? How about 2 hours?

Hey FTO'rs, I will be skiing solo at Belleayre on Thursday this week for my 1st day of the season. All black garb, Stokli skis and a strip of green plaid streaming behind. Say hello if you are there. =D>

Maybe this is a beaten horse, but I am lazy and lacking time. I have planned a little 50th birthday trip for myself. :-D I am training seriously and will be in very good shape by the time this trip rolls around. I like powder and challenging terrain, but I've been to AltaBird many times and...

This has probably already been covered, maybe even for me last year, but I am sooo lazy... :) I will be in Seattle for a conference Dec 5-9. I want to tack on 2 days of skiing after the conference. Do I need to go up to Whistler for reliable snow, or can I count on the Seattle areas...

Gee, Tony, that's tough luck!! Hope you feel better soon. I agreed to go to LA for Mother's day with my wife and new daughter. But I've only agreed to extend my visit from the bare minimum to the following Thursday if I could leave Sunday after the Mom's Day festivities and ski Mon, Tue and Wed...

I am out here in Vancouver on business for a week. I am going to Whistler Friday night to ski Sat and Sun, but I noticed the lights up on Grouse Mountain on the cab ride from the airport Sunday night after I arrived, and realized I could get some turns in after work, with very little effort...

Hi folks, I have an opportunity to meet my wife anywhere in Europe or Scandinavia to ski in Mid February of 2007. :D Where should I go to maximize my chances of fresh powder? For example, if asked that question about the US, I would answer Grand Targhee or Alta.