Your 2007-08 Ski Day Count

25 Days. My best by about 10 days.

2 - Whistler-After a rain storm, very nasty
1- Mt Baker- After a rain storm, but with a bit of snow, not horrible
2- Mt Baldy-Early january was okay; End of January was 3-4 ft of new, fun day.
5-Jackson Hole; new snow every day. 4.5 powder days
1- Grand Targhee; windy but new snow, powder day
6 so far- Mammoth; 1 semi powder day if you could find the snow after the wind hit it, 2 hardback days, and 3 spring days (in Feb).
1-Squaw; spring
1-Alpine Meadows; spring
1-Kirkwood; spring, but with some winter snow at the top.
0- Mt. High; Went up there, it was raining and windy, the lifts weren't running
4-Alta; Little bit of snow, but lots of crust everyday.
1- Snowbird; Decent chalky snow
7????-Las Lenas? Thinking about it...

Some Pics I had laying around. Need to take more next year.
 

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Adam is at 63 days and 867K. I'm not sure if/when he's going back to Mammoth.

My summary of 2007-08 (* new area):

Area Days Vertical Powder
Alta 1.0 18.7 1.0
Blackcomb 1.5 38.4 11.0
Brighton 1.0 18.1 -
*Canada Olympic Park 1.0 2.1 -
Castle Mt. 2.0 49.0 30.0
Chatter Creek Snowcat 4.0 50.2 48.0
Kicking Horse 1.0 16.2 6.0
*La Grave, France 4.0 48.8 -
Lake Louise 1.0 23.2 4.0
Mammoth 2.0 16.5 -
*Mt. Baker 1.0 19.8 10.0
Mt. Baldy 3.0 63.9 7.0
*Nakiska 1.0 16.6 -
Park City 1.0 19.0 4.0
*Serre Chevalier, France 1.0 10.0 -
Snow Basin 1.0 15.2 -
Snow Summit 1.0 26.7 -
Snowbird 4.0 84.5 2.0
*Sundance 1.0 14.8 1.0
Sunshine Village 1.0 15.4 3.0
Whistler 2.5 50.5 18.0
Grand Total 36.0 617.6 145.0

22 areas in one season is 3rd highest (28 in 2006-07).
23.4% powder is 3rd highest (27.1% in 1998-99)
17.2K vert/day is lowest since 1978-79.
The latter 2 stats are affected by the interruption of my Mammoth spring season, which tends to run up the vertical but only occasionally the powder. Those stats will remain in their current rank even I get back up there for Memorial Day.

The powder at Chatter Creek and Castle Mt. were highlights. Those 2 couloirs at La Grave were highlights in a different way. April 12 was an even more obvious low point. But as others have noted, if I'm going to have a crash like that, the timing wasn't bad.
 
Hey Tony - how are you doing?
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Pretty much as people here have said. Gradual recovery: 2 strong painkillers per dose>> 2 milder painkillers so I can drive (starting last Thursday)>>now 1 pill per dose, occasionally less often than once every 4 hours.

Worst pain was when I sneezed once Sunday night. I'll be asking the doc about that one on my next visit tomorrow. At least no problem sleeping.
 
97 days for me so far with 9 days in the wasatch and pushin 20 on mt washington, over half have been pow days 6 inches or more, mostly untracked. should get over the 100 day mark soon.
good season, definitely not my top ten ski day year but, close, not bad for livin on the coast.
rog
 
My Ski Streak (weekly) and Eastern lift-served are probably over so I think it's time to post in this thread as those numbers aren't shouldn't change much in the next few weeks. ;)

Skied at least once a week for the last 22 weeks. You know you've had a good season when that happens.

Here are the stats for the stat people.

56 days & nights. (46 days + 10 nights)
3 provinces + 4 states.
27 areas (including 2 backcountry areas in the Chic Chocs).
11 new areas (*)

Regional breakdown:

Local 25 (60 minutes or less) (47%)
NE US 13 (23%)
West 10 (18%)
Rest of QC 8 (14%)

Provinces/States breakdown:

QC 30 (local 22; not 8 )(47%)
ON 3 (local 3)(5%)
BC 7 (13%)
VT 6 (11%)
NH 5 (9%)
CO 3 (5%)
NY 2 (4%)

Ski Areas breakdown:

Cascades QC (local) 7
Fortune QC (local) 6
Edelweiss QC (local) 6
* Shames BC 5
Mad River Glen VT 4
Whiteface NY 2
Ste-Anne QC 2
* Smithers BC 2
* Loveland CO 2
Ste-Marie QC (local) 2
Pakenham ON (local) 2
* Arapahoe Basin CO 1
Wildcat NH 1
Cannon NH 1
* Black NH 1
* Cranmore NH 1
* Balsams Wilderness NH 1
Calabogie Peaks ON (local) 1
Vorlage QC (local) 1
Tremblant QC 1
Bromont QC 1
* Mont Avalanche QC 1
* Mont Chilly QC 1
* Hogback, Chic Chocs QC 1
* Mt-Albert, Chic Chocs QC 1
Smugglers' VT 1
Jay Peak VT 1

Monthly Breakdown:

October: 3 (5%)
November: 1 (powder day, not marginal)(2%)
December: 8 (14%)
January: 12 (21%)
February: 12 (21%)
March: 12 (21%)
April: 7 (13%)
May: 1 (so far)(2%)

The Rest of our family:

Morgane: 23 (1 times alone with my wife)(39%)
Tara: 13 (1 times alone with my wife) (21%)
Wife: 13 (2 times with one of the girls)(20%)

My top ski partners:

Morgane: 22 (39%)
Tara: 12 (21%)
Wife: 11 (20%)

Morgane + Tara + Wife: 11(20%)
Morgane alone with me: 11 (20%)
Tara alone with me: 1 (2%)
Lucky Luke: 9 (4 in BC, 3 in VT & 2 in the CC)(16%)
Masters: 8 (14%)
Solo days & nights: 8 (14%)

I hope none of you get sick with stats. ;)
 
I have no idea how Patrick keeps his records, but I recently completed moving all of mine into Excel. The various breakdowns that Patrick posted are easily derivable with pivot tables. Saves a lot of grunt work.

For example the season my kids and I were the same ages as Patrick and his now was 1994-95. That was a great year in California, but I tore my meniscus on President's Day at Grand Targhee and did not ski again until April 23. So I only had 22 days, though one was a latest ever July 15 at Mammoth. Adam was with me for all 22 and Andrew for 16 of them, but Becky for only 2.

This year out of my 36 days Adam was with me for 21 and Andrew 5. And strangely enough, Becky for 7.

FYI Ron Cram of http://skistreak.com had a streak of 91 weeks.
 
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Eldora was my only new mountain this year.

I think I'm done until Chile in August. If Tony Crocker has jinxed my snow with his bad karma about weather patterns......
 
No jinx from me. It's not cheap to go down there, and since bad years in South America can be near total wipeouts, just trying to let people know they should not commit $ ahead in a La Nina year. Remember Patrick; he didn't put up any $ until late July last year. That would be a very wise strategy for 2008 IMHO.
 
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No jinx from me. It's not cheap to go down there, and since bad years in South America can be near total wipeouts, just trying to let people know they should not commit $ ahead in a La Nina year. Remember Patrick; he didn't put up any $ until late July last year. That would be a very wise strategy for 2008 IMHO.
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My dollars were committed a year ago and I had to cancel. Termas de Chillan has a 30% deposit from last year that pays for a big chunk of my trip this year. I'm on frequent flyer miles so it doesn't break the bank to re-deposit the miles back in the airline FT program. If there's no skiing at all, I'll just cancel and the resort will probably roll it over once again to next year. I'm a repeat customer at a time when the US dollar is in the crapper, I book directly with the International Sales Director, and I'm part of a group at Killington that goes there most years so it's in their interest to take care of me.
 
I managed 65 days this past season. I had to end my season near the end of April due to a badly pinched sciatic nerve. I also had commitments to travel to the east coast for the first two weeks of May, and then I spent a week in San Francisco and San Diego. After my travels, I would still have done a few turns at Snowbird (which is still open) but the sore leg has definitely detered me from that option. Oh well, there is always next year. :(
 
103 days and counting. a couple/few more on the rock are not out of the question especially with very cool temps coming in for next week to preserve for summer snow. may hit chili this summer-august for 7-10 days.
been an amazingly long consistently good season, only missed one week of skiing due to slightly less than ideal weather/conditions since november 15th and that was the week b4 memorial day. love packin up the skis in 80 degree weather, the neighbors think i'm nuts. if it weren't for this i'd probably be in AA so skiing's a much better thing to obsess over. headin to the beach!
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Attached is a graph of vertical + powder for a few seasons of interest to FTO.

Tony 2004-05: 48 days, 965K vertical, 147K powder
Patrick 2005-06: 61 days, 873K vertical, 79K powder
Admin 2006-07: 73 days, 764K vertical, 189K powder
Tony 2007-08: 38 days, 664K vertical, 145K powder
Adam 2007-08: 63 days, 868K vertical, 167K powder

Some of Patrick's days are estimates, but I'm quite confident the vertical total is within 5% and the powder within 10%. 2005-06 was Patrick's first 12 month season, probably typical of the past 2 years also. He would have had less powder in 2006-07 but perhaps more this year.

Admin was using his Suunto watch regularly during that season, but alas not so much this year. 2006-07 was a below average snow year in Utah, so I think 225-250K of powder would be more typical.

My son Adam lived in Mammoth about half of this season and will not come close to those day or vert counts for awhile. It was a subpar powder year at Mammoth. Half his powder came on the Canadian trip Jan. 31 - Feb. 10.

Time will tell whether I exceed my 2004-05 benchmarks in retirement. Detail stats by region, area and season updated through June 2008 at http://bestsnow.net/vertfeet.htm .
 

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I was boring again this year - didn't travel anywhere, just stayed local. On top of that, I lost about 20 days thanks to my former appendix having other ideas about how I should spend xmas week and most of January.

Here's the breakdown. I don't track powder days. I don't track vertical. Just the number of days on the small, insignificant local hills:

Powder Mountain: 1
Snowbird: 12 (and probably a few more)
Alta: 37
 
You're not going up this weekend? What, are your cats holding a Father's Day celebration for you?
 
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You're not going up this weekend? What, are your cats holding a Father's Day celebration for you?
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Huh? What gives you that idea?
I believe I wrote:
Snowbird: 12 (and probably a few more)
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Clear enough now? Are you reading these posts on that Dick Tracy watch thingy again?
 
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