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No snow new yet but we have a tropical cyclone about to cross the coast at Brisbane for the first time since my birth year in 1972. Hopefully it’s not too damaging...

My travel partner is between these. She is in favour of booking last minute if we're somewhere that is not in peak season. She too likes to stay in one place at least 2 nights.

This question is mildly related to your post given the commentary about driving in snow and having chains. I’m planning to drive from Seattle to the interior of BC tomorrow. My preference is to drive over the Coquihalla pass but if safer I will go over the Cascades east of Seattle and cross the...

We’re back in SLC. The decision on where to go was difficult as Alta probably would have been best but Tom is on a snowboard and considering I don’t know how much snow time he’ll get in the next few years we wanted to let him do the thing he enjoys most so it was Snowbird or Snowbasin. Emily and...

Our best ever day skiing as a family. I don’t know how much Grand Targhee reported but it was plenty. And because it was cold the snow on the ground and falling was fluffy and dry. You people call it Rocky Mountain ‘cold smoke’ powder. I opted to go to the Sacajawea lift so we could get to the...

Early this morning Grand Targhee were reporting 2” and Jackson 4” and the predicted heavy snow late in the day and tonight made me think the pass might be difficult tomorrow so I decided to go to Jackson today. Add to that we can do more justice to a powder day at Grand Targhee than Jackson……...

It’s pretty hard for my family to have more fun than we did today. We got to ski some fresh light snow early and the hill provided soft turns all day. Aside from a 5 minute wait to get through the initial line at 9am on Dreamcatcher we either skied on or waited less than a minute each lift...

Tom stayed in bed as he has some kind of flu. So it was just the three of us today. I went with very low expectations as I bought the logic that all of the Salt Lake valley skiers would be at the hill with the most acreage open. Reality was a little different as it wasn’t that busy as far as...

Today was Snowbird’s 53rd birthday! I don’t have a lot to say really. People from Brisbane are happy to be on a mountain and Snowbird is some mountain even at extremely low tide. The kids haven’t been on snow since January 2023 in France. It’s like riding a bike I guess. The local’s probably...

Got it. Thanks. I didn’t know that the Great Lakes froze - even partially. I assumed their sheer volume would prevent that. I knew about the water/air temperature differential and fetch from reading about lake effect snow (sea effect) in Japan.

We made the spectacular 20 minute drive from Wanaka to Treble Cone base parking area about 8am. Same deal as at Cardrona yesterday. A long drive on an unsealed access road from the base carpark to the main lift and facilities area at 4100 feet. Trail map below...

Cardrona is a 45 minute drive from the lakeside town of Wanaka. The last 8 miles are up an unpaved access road so instead of putting chains on the car we jumped on the free shuttle bus from the base carpark. Another above the tree line NZ ski area Cardrona was always going to have poor...

I wasn’t intending on doing any trip reports for this short break to Queenstown/Wanaka. They’ve had a really poor season so I came here with very low expectations. In fact I had planned that we would do mainly hiking and perhaps no skiing at all. Given though they’ve had some late season...

https://www.centraloregondaily.com/news/local/powdr-selling-mt-bachelor/article_2e3e9ed8-6098-11ef-b978-37e7a187e4a4.html Mt Bachelor and others for sale it seems. Do these resorts make enough money that they will definitely continue to be ski hills? I've not been to Silver Star yet and want to...

I searched but couldn't find anything. I thought there may be some reports from people that had visited the area in fall. I'm starting to research for a planned trip October 2025. It's obviously not important but if anyone knows of any report please post it. @Tony Crocker I'm sure you've done a...

I am conscious that political discussion may be a little unwelcome on this site so I’ve chosen this thread as it’s touched on political things previously. I’m really curious what the reaction is on the ground to last week? Here in Oz even politically apathetic people have suddenly become engaged...

I plan on being in Europe from about March 9 to early April. So outside the bulk of the Euro school holidays. I intend to do another Snoworks course. They think they will do a couple of courses in Serre Chevalier in March next year but it's yet to be confirmed. Otherwise they'll definitely have...

The first snowfall has happened in both countries. Still a while until some sticks though. I'm equipped with a Mountain Collective pass that gives me some days at Remarkables and Coronet Peak near Queenstown on the south island of New Zealand and a couple of days at Mt Buller in Victoria...

After getting that prime spring snow last week I now get the attraction to renowned spring locations.

So I moved to Val Thorens with the Snowheads people. Sunday and yesterday were incredibly warm. Monday I had a guiding/instruction session with a local pro. He took us on some just ok north facing high areas. To show us contrast between just ok and incredibly bad he took us on a run down the...