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Kicking Horse was high on my list of B.C. areas to check out, but I never had any intention of hitting it on my recent trip to the region. After all, I was staying the week in Fernie, some 3 1/2 hours away, where I figured nearby Castle Mountain and Fernie Alpine Resort would keep me plenty busy...

They say there's a first time for everything. My first time visiting Telluride… ...And my first ever gondola ride of shame. The free gondola linking Mountain Village to the town of Telluride made it possible (open 7am - midnight!). 6+” of snow fell that night. The fact that I missed out on...

Last season, I traveled to Montana and Wyoming to ski Big Sky and Grand Targhee. Though I considered a new ski destination for this season, the potent combination of amazing terrain, great snow, and nonexistent crowds was too tough to resist. Not wanting to repeat the same trip itinerary, I...

This should have been a Plattekill trip report. Last week I was eyeing some deals on Liftopia. With the recent storm just a forecast, and Plattekill's trail count extremely limited at the time, I opted to buy tickets to Belleayre in case the storm underdelivered. Of course, the storm did...

Alta 2/5,8,9 Snowbasin 2/7 Solitude 2/10 Snowbird 2/11 By all accounts, this has been a challenging ski season not just for the northeast but for Utah as well. Base depths were significantly below normal, and high pressure has kept the mountains dry for large chunks at a time. Locals were...

When I planned for the trip to Taos in early December, I was hoping for conditions like these: North Face 12/31/09. What I got was a substantially below normal base and barely an inch of snow in the past week or so. In spite of the less than desirable conditions, I was extremely impressed at...

I had very low expectations for my recent trip to Whiteface. Every time I looked at the weather models, the forecast only seemed to get worse. Saturday's forecast, which seemed salvageable early in the week with the possibility of morning snow, was later revised to simply rain and high winds...