Project101: USA Road Trip

jamesdeluxe said:
Laugh at the vert of the ski areas all you want but he's scoring nice conditions
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Nice conditions? Maybe surface OK - just a few inches creating PP, but nothing amazing.

But single digit / 0s F and below zero wind chills all day?! No thanks.

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However, this would have been an excellent ski day at Mt Bohemia (below): 10 inches of new snow, 2 feet for the week, and great terrain/vertical for the Midwest!

Avoiding this premium/iconic/best/few times-per-winter experience makes this Swiss guy not 'a skier' but some weird stats-obsessed odball. I also noticed woldskitravller has a "chairlift fetish". And why not? One crazy behavior after another. Collect lifts too!

Why doesn't he care about conditions, ski experience, or specific ski slopes/trails/terrain?

Also, he only allows enough time at a ski area to ride each chairlift once! Therefore, the Midwest mountains only require 60-120 minutes max! Even Lutsen Mountain (the largest MW ski area) was only allotted 2 hours to so.

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I like to "Hate-Watch" some things. Like this Coast-to-Coast ski trip, because it's something I would never execute in the way skiworldtraveler.

My favorite hate-watch show for 2025 was 2 seasons of: the Duchess of Sussex's lifestyle series With Love, Meghan, which focuses on cooking, gardening, and entertaining. Those ex-royals are tiresome.
 
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ChrisC said:
However, this would have been an excellent ski day at Mt Bohemia (below): 10 inches of new snow, 2 feet for the week, and great terrain/vertical for the Midwest!
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+10 Mt. Bohemia is surely one of skiing's unique experiences. These are the type of experiences I like to collect for my ski area count. But from where I live I could get to Niseko faster. It's almost criminal that Project 101 drove across UP Michigan from Jackson Creek (the former Indianhead) in the west to Nub's Nob in Mainland Michigan and turned his nose up at the modest detour to Mt. Bohemia in its prime with 2 feet of powder!
James: AND scoring nice conditions at each brief stop:
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:eusa-think: Most Midwest molehills are way too flat to ski powder. You would grind to a halt in anything over 6 inches. I'm sure everything is groomed to prevent that scenario. James knows all of this. It's not much more convenient for him than it is for me, but surely Mt. Bohemia is James' kind of place. He would make a beeline for it if he were ever as close as Project 101 was this week.

What's with the rampant renaming of Michigan ski areas? I have all that he has skied on this trip in my Google Earth .kml file but four of them have changed their names since 2015.
 
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Today Project 101 drove 470 miles and skied Alpine Valley, Ohio. It looks like he's on his way to upstate NY. Harvey? James? FYI he skied Whiteface, Gore and West in 2019, so anywhere else is fair game.
 
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