My season is now updated after skiing June 30 - July 2, July 19 and August 4-5 after a month+ hiatus.
| Area | Sum of Days | Sum of Vertical (x1000) | Sum of Powder (x1000) |
| Mt. Baldy | 6 | 100.5 | 7 |
| Mountain High (West) | 1 | 22.8 | 0 |
| Mt. High East (Holiday Hill) | 1 | 13.1 | 0 |
| Mammoth | 19 | 378.8 | 12 |
| Snow Summit | 0.5 | 11.5 | 0 |
| Bear Mt. | 0.5 | 11 | 0 |
| Snowbird | 5 | 84.4 | 19 |
| Alta | 1 | 17.5 | 5 |
| Sun Valley | 1 | 19.4 | 3 |
| Island Lake Snowcat | 3 | 50.5 | 45 |
| Fernie | 1 | 20.1 | 0 |
| Castle Mt. | 3 | 41.3 | 6 |
| Big Sky | 3 | 40.8 | 9 |
| Moonlight Basin | 1 | 22 | 2 |
| Serre Chevalier, France | 3 | 68.3 | 2 |
| Lost Trail | 1 | 14.1 | 10 |
| Discovery | 3 | 55.5 | 2 |
| Les Arcs, France | 1 | 18.9 | 0 |
| *Valloire-Valmeinier, France | 1 | 22.5 | 2 |
| *Sansicario, Italy | 1 | 17.7 | 11 |
| *Sestriere, Italy | 1 | 18 | 7 |
| *Sauze d'Oulx, Italy | 1 | 19 | 4 |
| *Puy St. Vincent, France | 1 | 15.1 | 0 |
| *Montgenevre, France | 0.5 | 14.5 | 0 |
| *Claviere, Italy | 0.5 | 9.2 | 0 |
| *Auron, France | 1 | 21.5 | 0 |
| *Alpe d'Huez, France | 1 | 24.3 | 0 |
| *Les Deux Alpes, France | 1 | 23.2 | 0 |
| *Sybelles, France | 1 | 19.7 | 0 |
| *Pebble Creek | 1 | 15.2 | 0 |
| *Great Divide | 1 | 15.1 | 7 |
| Totals | 66 | 1225.5 | 153 |
* = new area
Mammoth was worth skiing by Nov. 5 this season but my bunion surgery Sept. 8 delayed my start to Nov. 23. Still, Nov. 23 and Dec. 14 were new calendar dates, and I have now skied every calendar date from Nov. 21 - June 2. This is a trivia stat where I've filled in all the obvious holes, now total
265 dates
after adding 3 more this summer, but I doubt I'll catch Patrick for this stat which is aided by his eccentric ski schedule.
After 3 lean years, this one was slightly above average for powder
(lift served 9.2% vs. 8.7% lifetime average). You could say, "how could it not be?" but there's a lot of variability on how often powder coincides with scheduled trips. 2016-17 was below average for example, and my best by far was 2011-12, though that one was enhanced by 12 snowcat and 2 heli days. Iron Blosam week had 27 inches, but that was the driest March week of Snowbird's 214 inch total. The road trip after Iron Blosam had some powder most days.
The Euro trip was the opposite. We scored localized powder in the Via Lattea during what was overall a poor season in the Alps. I also had a top tier cat ski tour at Island Lake with almost 2 feet fresh during a below average season in Canada.
This was my age 70 ski season, and I noticed increased altitude sensitivity Dec. 12-14 at Mammoth on terms of taking longer "suck wind" breaks while skiing challenging terrain/conditions. This was evident during Iron Blosam week also, but fortunately not so much at lower elevations like Mt. Baldy or in Canada. Last year I noted vertical per day was up due to perhaps skiing a higher proportion of groomers. This year it's down a little to 18,600 due to the longer rest stops on higher effort terrain/conditions. The more telling sign is that my maximum vertical day this season was 27,700, lowest since 1995 and one of only two seasons since then with no day over 30K.
This was the highest SoCal snowfall season since El Nino 1998 though it didn't get going in terms of natural snow terrain until late February. In retirement I'm likely to be away when it snows here, but this year I was lucky in that the big storms hit at the end of my Canada trip. With limited road and lift operation plus wind affected snow, I did not get lot of powder in SoCal, but March 7 and April 7 were probably my best local ski days since 2010 and 9 local ski days is far above average.
2022-23 was a strong year for variety with 31 different areas and 13 new ones. I've skied
31 days on Ikon.
Age 70 gives me free skiing at Mt. High (2 days), and that applies to Powder Alliance (1 day at Lost Trail). Liz had 42 days and 16 new areas. My ski area count is now 276 and hers is 213.
