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The list of options is washing away... https://madpatski.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/raining-down-the-season-eastern-closing-2024-week-3/

The backside snowfields were closed; apparently it was pretty bony. WhiteNitro definitely prime, the top part was somewhat firm, but very edgeable, definitely one of my favorites at Sugarloaf. The temperature started getting warm for the season on Saturday/Sunday. Open half of the mountain was...

This week's update. https://madpatski.wordpress.com/2024/04/11/post-eclipse-eastern-closing-2024-week-2/

Part 2. First run after totality. Of course, you can't see the eclipse in the background.

Blinded by the Light was my favorite song for at least one month back when I was in 5th grade. Orientation of most of my pictures are SW expect the one with the closest antenna which is more south. Hard to tell from the pictures, but we had a great view of Sunday River and Mount Washington in...

Bucket list: skiing during a total solar eclipse. Done. ;)

Hi, I normally start prior to the first weekend of April, but as April 1st was a Monday, I did a prelude last week. Here are the links so far. All written very fast, but information should be fairly accurate...

A slight modification to my Eastern Closing thread. Total Solar Eclipse skiing rundown – Part 1b https://madpatski.wordpress.com/2024/04/04/total-solar-eclipse-skiing-rundown-part-1b/

We got a good bump in Ottawa two weekend in a row and areas north of the St. Lawrence River. Finally looks like Winter here. In the last ten days we've had temps closest to normal (ie. below freezing and minimums lower than -10c), so snowmaking have been working overtime to catch up.

The Zermatt-Cervinia course has been controversial from the start, many people thought that the weather/wind for a downhill on the hill in November would be problematic; they only managed 2 training runs out and 0 races out of 10 days for Men and Women combined. Not sure if the races will...

You are correct about the Vail/Beaver Creek in 2015, I had a blind spot for what was really recent. ;) If I remember correctly, the 1983 Tremblant World Cup was suppose to be held at Ste-Anne, but due to lack of snow, the race got move to Tremblant. Not really a challenging Downhill as it...

I remember, but didn't realized that they tried for 3 consecutive years.

Here is the list of resorts East/West, Canada/US in North American that hosted Alpine World Cups which started in 1966-67. Numbers doesn't include Olympics* or World Championships* which started in the 1930s. World Cup 22: Ste-Anne QC 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1989 6: Tremblant QC...

Do you mean Lake Louise? There hasn't been a scheduled World Cup in Whistler for many years. There is definitely some branding issues about hosting a World Cup. Branding for the resort, but also for the regional organizations.

Lodging, sales, businesses, prestige, etc. Last year's attendance over the 3-day event (bid draw, concert, fireworks) was 37,000. Not all locals.

Not in anyway that I compare myself to Miles, but skiing at a place because it’s there and an important ski season gathering/event is attractive. Although not as crazy as driving 1400km in one day to ski 2 hours indoors in October, I drove 4 hours on evening to ski 2 hours at a hill with a...

In my case and that is my personal feeling at the time, I've always tied in South Hemisphere season at the end of the normal Northern Hemisphere season regardless how late in goes. For example, the closing weekend of Australia ski season was the first weekend of October, regardless that I skied...

Well... you know that the indoor ski area was initially project to open in 2008. ;) I found out that the Winter time is their busier time and their market is mostly beginners.

As mentioned… keeping my fingers crossed. Last minute flights: 2007: Flew out to Denver on October 27. Skied 28-30 and came back after skiing on Oct 30. 2017: Left for Denver on October 30, skied 31-3. Returned home after skiing Nov 3, back home for daughter bday the next day. The extremely...

Based on the forecast weather and filled up calendar. 26: ski banquet in Montreal 28-29: online course at home in Ottawa 30+: Montreal - had workers redo floors of tenant apartment. They should be done tomorrow Nov 1.