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There was wind this morning but everything that was supposed to be open and running was open and running. I stopped skiing around 11:30 though so I cannot vouch for what happened after that. Conditions were great. I was very surprised that they still hadn't groomed Skyward.

Skyward was excellent today. Much softer than I thought it would be. Heavy but not super heavy generally really fun. I skied Cloudspin going through the poacher's gate and it was very skiable with fresh wind buffed snow. Thin cover over the trees but okay. Mostly I did laps off the summit but...

I will ski tomorrow. I'll report back in the afternoon.

Website says they opened Skyward today. Anyone here ski it?

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Personally, I'll hold my disappointment at bay until it has been closed for a bit longer, more than a day anyway. Last year I think Skyward only opened around now and Lookout was certainly not open yet. It's not that history should be the standard we judge by, I'm all for improvement. Face4Me's...

I should have been more clear, my apologies. I wasn't talking about the back country skiing through the gates at Annapuri. I meant the on-piste skiing is for beginners, so not a great place for my wife and I to ski groomers. I know there are a few groomed black runs on the map but we skied there...

We did not. If you're going to stay in one place, especially if it's a built up village like Grand Hirafu, then there's no need for a car and you can book transport from CTS to the resort on one of the coach services. We did this ahead of time and used "White Liner". For our day at Rusutsu...

After spending four days in Tokyo getting over jetlag, eating, and doing generally touristy things, we arrived in Grand Hirafu in the evening on Friday, January 6. It’s about a 90 minute flight from Tokyo to CTS (Sapporo) and then a two and a half hour drive to Hirafu. We were ecstatic to be...

I am 100% in alignment with what Face4Me writes here. Reliability is orders of magnitude more important than any other changes I would list. In particular the Gondola, LWF, Summit, and Lookout chairs. I have skied 18 days at WF this year and the Gondola has actually been in good shape on those...

Definitely not trying to defend ORDA on this one. As I said, I think there are much better ways to spend this money but if they do this I'll probably use it quite a bit mid winter provided they open it at 8:30AM. I doubt I'll ever it use it in the summer though.

Tokyo for 4 days then Niseko for 8. I'll take some pics and write some words but no promises on the quality of either. This will be my third trip out there, I do highly recommend it. The snow is wonderful and the food is amazing. It's just a fun place to be. The one thing it's missing is a lot...

My understanding is that the new lift will provide those parking at Bear Den direct access to the Legacy Lodge area and LWF lift. Today if you park there you need to either hike up a bit, take the carpet, or take the Falcon Flyer lift, and then ski down to the Base Lodge. In the long run it's...

Boy, you express some good feels for the place and then the sh*t hits the fan. I couldn't agree more about replacing LWF and Summit being a higher priority than the new lift from Bear Den. I hope things are better when I'm back after the games. I'm off to Japan now!

After looking a bit more online myself I do see that I misunderstood the mechanism for limiting water use. Thanks for confirming and my apologies for getting this wrong! Of course there are still implicit constraints on snowmaking related to operating budget. I don't begin to know what goes on...

Another very nice morning at WF. First couple hours of the day were great on Mountain Run, Upper Parkway, Lower Wilderness, and Lower Mack. It did get skied off by late morning and today was as crowded as I've seen it this year. As far as I could tell nothing new was open but I did poach Lower...

That may be. I confess I don't really know much about this. I did find this bit: TRACKING OUR WATER WITHDRAWAL To sustain and protect aquatic habitats, Gore, Whiteface, and Belleayre each have a specific, permitted amount of water withdrawal for snowmaking operations. In cooperation with the...

wow, you're kind of harshing my buzz, dude. It's only Tuesday so we don't know exactly what will be open this weekend but even if it was just what's open today, I'm pretty happy with what they have managed. I don't recall all of the black terrain being open two weeks ago until after after the...

I was hitting that exact trajectory this morning until about 10:30! All the way skier's right on U.P. and then right under the lift line on Mountain Run. Good snow there. They did open Lower Wilderness and Lower Mack too, and they were fun, but I thought Mountain Run was the most fun today.

Glad to hear they opened lower Mack, it was closed in the morning but looked good from below. Hopefully they make lots more snow over the next few nights and the rest of the week turns out awesome!