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Not nearly as good as expected. After a cold and snowy week that brought 18"+ to Abasin I had expected a lot of soft and fun conditions all over the mountain. Especially on a day with temps at 10F to start and only 25F at the end of the day. Instead the cold temps locked the snow up like...

Two takes. Very good day to ski the Basin; also very interesting comparison to my recent euro trip. 8" powder day. Interestingly I didn't bother rushing I-70, not worth the hassle to get up that early. I suspected at least some of the front range would stay home with 60F in the forecasts for...

Day 1 - Powder is delicious. After driving over from 3 Valleys with actual snow on the ground/trees was a nice change of pace. After arriving and parking at P0 across from our hotel for the night, it turns out is only ~1 block from the lifts. With all the goings on at 3 Valleys basically none...

Much belated. I'm trying to figure out how fit all the stuff(s) into this thing some of which were common themes and some daily one-offs. Plus I have like 100 pics just from 3 Valleys not counting 360 video/stills to process. This portion of my trip was my annual guys trip with 10 of us...

After 2nd night of snowfall in CO after the big warm week prior, Vail was reporting 4" new and 13" in 48hrs. I was very curious how the back bowls would be knowing how badly they would have been hammered by the sun during the warmth. The answer was complex. True S facing stuff was still very...

I'm sure this and my next TR are quite unexpected. They were for me as well! My brother, his son and their family friends dad/son from Pittsburg somewhere/how decided to take kids out of school for a couple days and fly in to ski for a long weekend at the last minute. I made the decision to ski...

Solidly decent and kinda lucky for this Jan it appears. Mustang and all of BC had pretty decent Dec snows, but very little (almost none) precip in Jan. However 6" (15cm) fell on on the first day which hugely helped plus another 1-2 on day 2/evening. Though by day two snow had all sorts of...

Pretty decent. I'm heading in to Mustang later today and hit SilverStar this year (vs Revy). For me it all comes down to one lift - powder gulch. I put blue dots on the below map roughly at the top of the runs I skied. Tried at end of day to get one off each as legs were tiring. Set up was...

Very similar to two days ago: Copper Dec 30th Biggest differences would be having Jr with me and getting to some very soft snow on Tucker. This time a somewhat tired later start and some surprise traffic at Floyd Hill on I70. Still getting to top of Super B by 10:30a. Hitting Resolution, lift...

Painful in some ways, very nice in others. It's been an interesting December in Colo. Mostly dry, though a couple small storms; until the past ~4-5 days. My home resort of Eldora is still not in great shape as temps have been just a hair too warm for nearly 3 weeks of Dec, with lows in the...

Not going to post tons of daily TRs but will throw some stuff up as warranted this year. I do have more ski days since the Opening day TR I put up nearly a month ago. Lots of snow for this time of year, though not enough to really open anything yet. Lots of ski packing in places, wind removed...

Breaking all the rules :) Rule #1 broken, never show up to opening day, it's a zoo Rule #2 broken, avoid WROD (eg 1-2 trails open) if at all possible Rule #3 broken, don't waste ski days on weekdays with limited terrain Etc.... I'm sure it will warm up, melt half of it, etc... but for now...

Or something like that. Ski Mag Top 30 in the West Top 5 are all Ikon resorts. Humorous how low some of the big resorts are ranked this year compared to what used to be there normal positions at Ski Mag.

I was thinking about how good (or not) auto lithium batteries are a few weeks back when getting new batteries for my off-grid mtn cabin. If one assumes even heavy driving over 8 years to get to 200,000 miles using a typical base Tesla range of say 270 miles per charge implies only ~745 full...

Not sure much remains of Mt High East or West at this point: Fires across west impacting ski areas

This is a second hand report, but seemed so unique that I should put a short blurb up on FTO. I have a relative who moves every couple years for work (very unique job role). She has lived in many seemingly random spots in the world and within north America over the years (including Azerbaijan...

Finally figured out where this private club is in Colo. Of course mostly pretty vague descriptions for location that I'd seen previously. Not sure if they even have openings (only 13 families allowed!). They even have a web page (why for only 13 families?) But was curious of just what...

Unplanned day of mostly powder. I had expected to maybe audible for a Friday ski day with 6-12" forecast but that storm hit further south with 2-3x that snowfall amount... unfortunately with all the southern resorts long since closed. Ironically the 1-3" that did hit central mtns apparently...

Been an up and down spring, with short stretches (3-5 days each it seems) of warm and cool/storms. I have been too busy to post on some of it (maybe get around to it later?). But have a short moment to post on yesterday. Multi-day storm cycle that should have hit ABasin more, but instead hit...

A modest sized storm coming through had outsized winds with it making for some interesting snow. I think I burned 50% more fuel just going up with huge winds in my face. Loveland Derby ski race weekend. A very old and long running SL race with lots of history. A few inches of nice snow but...