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I'm generally reluctant to get into ability discussions but: 1) Skiing high quality untracked snow is not particularly strenuous once you have some experience and can do it efficiently. In fact it's the least strenuous skiing aside from freshly groomed packed powder or corn. I'm still...

Did Vail state that their skier visits were down? Do they disclose total skier visits and/or on a regional basis? I know they do not disclose at the resort level.

Heliskiing at 10,000 feet is not that different from lift served given comparable challenge of terrain and snow. But Silverton is indeed a different animal. 1) You're at 12,000 not 10,000 and that's a significant difference. 2) Much of the terrain involves hiking 30-45 minutes above the top of...

64.7 is a very big jump for a new record. I can't say I'm surprised because last year (which was well below average in snowfall) surpassed (barely) the prior record high seasons of 2007-08 and 2010-11, both of which were outstanding snow years. 2022-23 looks very good on overall snowfall vs...

FB is abysmal source of ski interaction compared to ski forums. There is no organization whatsoever by topic groups, and forget about finding anything worthwhile that was posted more than a month (maybe a week?) ago. I guess I should mention the late EpicSki forum, which Vail shut down in May...

TGR does have breadth. I look at it mainly during our summer because there is always some South America content, notably by CaseyE, who grew up in Calgary but has lived in Santiago for decades. We had a lunch with him in Dec. 2021 when we were on our way to an eclipse flight from Punta...

???? Hanazono is definitely the flattest of the base areas. That's why if you traverse far out the G4 or G5 gates, you may have to spend 10 minutes walking up a gradual road (thankfully it's plowed) on the return to Hanazono. There's vast open bowl and tree skiing off piste out the G1 and G2...

I thought it was KSL (an Alterra partner), not POWDR, that had a minority interest in Whistler.

I recognized your screen name from the late EpicSki Forum (perhaps my greatest personal beef with Vail is its demise at their hands in 2017) and thought you were involved with Ski Forums for a long time. In the 2000's POWDR did indeed try to run their resorts in a similar manner, with the...

? You must have a short memory. What did POWDR Corp do when they bought Killington? 1) Closing dates first 5 years of POWDR ownership: April 20, May 2, April 25, May 1, April 22. 2) Jacked rates of kids/family programs exactly as Vail is doing now. 3) Surely you easterners remember the...

Reading the article which refers to recent purchase of Whistler/Blackcomb, I'd say late 2016 to early 2017. The article is very complimentary, but times are different now. People back then may have complained about Vail throwing its weight around and homogenizing parts of the ski experience...

This is a great thread and I applaud Harvey for the comprehensive detail of his poll. For anyone who skis a lot, the multiarea passes are great deal. I'm a variety junkie as evidenced by the record 37 areas I skied in 2018-19, 16 of them for the first time. Despite that 37 of my 70 days were...

I didn't mention food&bev because skiers have much discretion on how to handle that. Lodging beyond daytrip distance skiers have some discretion, but I recognize that at some ski areas it is difficult to avoid paying more inflation adjusted $$ for lodging than in the past.

This is the point Harvey and I agree upon. Relative to income, is skiing more expensive now than in the 1970's? That depends upon what aspect of skiing. Some aspects are definitely cheaper: season passes, air travel, clothing. Used gear is surely easier to come by now online. I pulled...

Looking at the US as a whole, skiing has never been a middle class sport IMHO. Yes skiing was even more an elitist sport in its formative years, which surely means at least through the 1950's. Which brings to mind the question, "When if ever was skiing not an elitist sport in the US?" I...

I have used Tesla superchargers 300x. I've never been interrupted by a charger completely out of order and only 4x had to wait for a stall because all were occupied. You pull in to a stall and plug in. No credit card interface or third party app required. Also most third party chargers are...

Glad to see that you managed to save your archives. Sadly, No one was able to do that with EpicSki in 2017. Yes, search functions inside websites are often inferior to a special google search. The "Uphill Capacity vs. Trail Acreage" thread was interesting. I've collected some of those stats...

Too bad you weren't in Rexburg for the total solar eclipse 4 years ago. I was on Rendezvous Peak at Jackson but our backup plan was a horse ranch in Rigby, not far from Rexburg. Rexburg is only 74 minutes from Targhee, but it's also 74 minutes from the Idaho National Laboratory. That's quite...

I'm going to hazard a guess that your work is in Atomic City. Blackfoot (population 12,000) is the direct shot there from I-15 and that's still close to 30 miles one way. Your one way commute is closer to an hour from either Pocatello (population 55,000) or Idaho Falls (population 61,000)...

For those of you that have many threads you want to save, I recommend the HTTrack program. Make a list of the URL's you want to save, load them into the program, let it run for a few hours and they will all be saved your home computer in one fell swoop. Step by step instructions...