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Even 40 years ago, people in the Rockies had melodramatic challenges with safety bars. :icon-biggrin: I can't find the entire Fire...

This Mont Tremblant report on Alpinfans is from a week ago (March 27). It's always interesting to read comments from Europe about North...

I wasn't recommending that you give up spring skiing at Mammoth/Bachelor to instead fly 14 hours overseas. I was just pointing out an...

Not true. I learned to downhill ski in the northeast at age 37 and the majority of days during my first 15 seasons were there (blue...

Located in the western Valais region, Ovronnaz isn't part of the 4 Valleys/Verbier circuit; it's five-ish miles north, on the other side...

If that happens to us, I'll send Tony an invoice.

Now that I think about it, I had a similar moment the previous year at Serre Chevalier, also during a long drought. The upper 2/3 of the...

As this WP article points out, it's very unlikely that LAers would accept the mass removal of palm trees, despite it being a smart move...

Fraser from Weather to Ski is with his family at Les Crosets on the Swiss side of the Portes du Soleil. A few pix on Facebook if...

Fair enough. As I recall, my consternation was because you insisted repeatedly that we go to the bottom instead of downloading, and...

Not sure whether to address this ^^ increasingly exaggerated narrative, hah. Tony and Liz have skied with me at three different mega...

The Quebec guy who wrote the Zoneski report from Tignes mentions that the Grande Motte tram wasn't working while there. I wonder how...

Here's an article from the Quebec website Zoneski about Sainte Foy's offpiste: in English or French (since you and the family always go...

Yesterday was our turn for this unpleasant narrative when we learned the news about our excellent local brewery -- so named because it...

I noticed this ^^ too; however, Val d'Isere village doesn't come off as new and sterile. The only time that I can recall staying in...