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I'm getting ready to drive from SLC to Wash DC. Will take a route past Moab, into NM, up through CO, then across KS and points East. Will go silent probably for a week or two until I complete trip and settle back in Eastern locale. If I get some good photos I'll post a few.

Yeah Pow Mow is getting kinda wacky. I'm not that crazy about the place either, although it's got some marvelous intermediate cruising terrain as I remember. Sundance is pretty cheap, wanna say under $100 for a weekday?? PS: back to spring skiing today 11 May 2024 at Snowbird, super fun day:

My kids have houses in UT and FL (among other places). I wouldn't mind splitting the year between both, although maybe just the Fall in FL. Panama City Beach, Nov 2022, air temp 83F, water temp 77.

11 May 2024 was special for me at Snowbird, UT. Besides enjoying good times with good friends and good snow, this was my 70th and last ski day of the season. My wife and I drive east on Monday. 70 is a PR for ski days in a season. It also matches my age. Kinda like that symmetry! Hope you all...

This is useful feedback. When people ask, what is your favorite ski area? I usually say the Aspen Group. Love Highlands, Snowmass and Ajax, fabulous skiing at all three. Early March would be ideal there for weather and snow. Beautiful and not as crowded as I70. Problem is it's expensive...

Was up at Snowbird again on May 9th. Still real fine winter snow/skiing. But spring is coming back in a day or two. This is the top of the Little Cloud Chair, looked and felt a bit like January 9th :unsure:

My first question is what pass are you going to buy, Epic, Ikon, Indy, or something else? Re Epic, I had one for a nine week cross-country skiing road trip I took in 2015. The last four weeks (mostly month of March) were in one condo in Silverthorne. It was a fine location for that pass. I...

7 May 2024, another snowy, wintry day at Snowbird, UT. Only Peruvian chair ran due to winds and avi mitigation, so logistically challenging. A bigger crowd turned out than yesterday. I timed one lift wait - 19 mins. I've probably only waited that long for a chair a handful of times in nearly...

OK, so I guess I like spring skiing and powder skiing about equally. They are both fun as heck! 6 May 2024 Snowbird, UT.

Me on 6 May 2024, 21" powder day at Snowbird UT, heck of a morning, still dumping, tomorrow's gonna be even better. Only Peruvian Chair ran due to storm. Big crowd, but not that big, worst line wait maybe 10-15 mins. My buddy who took above photo with a frame grab: I'll post some more...

Gonna really test the premise of this thread this week. Yesterday 4 May 2024 was an absolutely perfect spring ski day at Snowbird. Sunshine, 50 deg temps. Good surfaces that softened slowly and predictably across the various aspects of the mtn. Small crowds, walk-on tram rides. The kind of...

I don't think there is any free skiing at age 70 in UT now. Nordic Valley may be free at 75. Senior freebies are not always easy to track and ski areas change prices and qualifying ages quite a bit. The two I skied this year for free were Massanutten, VA (4 times) and Monarch, CO (2 times)...

1-2' coming to Snowbird/Solitude/Brighton between May 5-8. I'm taking today off because it's going to start very heavy/wet, but sounds like it could get colder and better 6th-8th..

Exactly, and the 70 skis free thing.:geek:

Late spring in Utah continued...27 April Snowbird, there was some good skiing and not so good due to foggy/misty spring weather 28 April was a fun day. Conditions weren't the greatest, but I spent it with friends and we ended up in a nice hot tub:) We started at Snowbird and a trip...

I've been reading the WaPo on and off for much of my life including the online version ever since the birth of the internet. It took me a couple years to understand how the online comments section works for any and all newspaper articles. Had to realize, accept, and then mostly dismiss...

Getting chewed up by avalanche debris is a fate I'm sure none of us ever want to experience, but at least it sounds like the end would come quick. :(

Thought I'd share this somewhat interesting read about a young American woman who went to a private school in Switzerland. Backcountry skiing was part of the curriculum. She was subsequently killed in an avalanche. https://wapo.st/3QncgdU

Nice report! I had a memorable April visit to Copper with my son in 2009. Believe we were there the 17th and 18th of the month and it was also during Sunsation. It snowed 2-3' of good quality snow during our one week visit to Summit County and I70 was closed for part of the time, so we had a...

I kind of botched above post, meant to lead with Jason's comment, then Tony C's. Which do you like better: powder or spring skiing? Or is there another condition you like? I love spring skiing too. This April has been outstanding in UT. I like a good powder day better, but a fine spring...