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A shame that you weren't able to see the 12-mile-wide Valles Caldera (below) but a powder day is a nice consolation prize. 🤠

Congrats on your two great scores, @Temp6. How long was your drive time from WC to Santa Fe? It's three hours on dry roads. Here's what Pajarito looks like under the more typical sunny skies.

I had it once after accidentally drinking water from the wrong bottle while in southern Utah. Trust me, it's no fun.

I've never been to Jiminy so it was good to experience it second-hand with all these pix, thanks! Too bad that Brodie isn't an option anymore.

Great to see Bearpen close up instead of in the distance.

Will absolutely do that!

Even more so, that's why I go there! 🤠 To clarify what I wrote above, I wasn't trying to be snooty but a big difference between NA and Europe is that there are multitudes more casual skiers there -- people who go on one, maybe two destination trips a season in a group of friends or family and...

At risk of painting an entire country with a broad brush: not all but a large majority of Brits tend to ski in well-known mega-resorts and often during peak winter periods. Not all but a very large number of them are casual skiers who tend to stay on-piste and when it hasn't snowed recently, the...

We remember! https://nyskiblog.com/forum/threads/plattekill-ny-02-27-10.100/

No question but I'd be interested to learn more details as Tignes would have to spend the same amount of money (or more?) to get the course into shape as one at a lower elevation but only has three months to produce revenue. I know from friends of friends who work at Evergreen near Denver that...

Hey CK -- hard to believe that was 13 years ago at gone-for-good Alpine Mountain. Whenever I visit my brother in the northeastern Poconos, I drive past it and get that lost-ski-area wistfulness. Claude finishes high school this spring. He likes skiing but does better with swimming and track so...

Not to be argumentative but I'd suggest that one visit to one specific place in a mountain range with 1,100 ski areas isn't much of a sample size to base that conclusion. Just like anywhere, there are regions that statistically get more snow (e.g. Vorarlberg, Upper Rhone Valley, Aletsch Arena)...

I'd like to know how long their golf season is and how they make it profitable.

Over our last two days at Val d'Isere, we didn't hire a guide, so @TonyC took over those chores to show me as much terrain as possible, including the huge Tignes sector. Most of the following on-mountain pix are from him. Here, Liz and I are standing at the Checkpoint Charlie dividing line...

With continued high-and-dry weather conditions following the surprisingly strong offpiste runs that we did in the Desert Country sector on Saturday, I asked our guide Sylvio from the French Ski School (ESF) if he thought that we could pull another rabbit out of our hat for Sunday. He said that...

Some additional photos taken by @TonyC. I believe that my nondescript green Obermeyer coat is now 20 years old -- my wife says that I'll be buried in it.

People have been asking me for years why I hadn't been to Val d'Isère given its sterling reputation so I decided that it was time to put up or shut up and committed to spending four days there. I knew going in that it's big but seeing was believing. The Piste Map site posted these bullets about...

While boarding my plane at Newark Thursday evening, I was reminded that I haven't been back to Berlin, my favorite European city, in decades and need to rectify that in the near future. After landing in Geneva early the next morning, I headed off to the 3 Vallées, where I spent two days last...

Love the banner photo with one of my favorite ski-area logos ever. Bummed that I missed out but glad that @Harvey was there to experience it for us.

Good grief, that's horrible. A moving tribute clip above.