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I am catching a train from Narita to Tokyo city (Ueno specifically) for a few tourist days in late January before going to the hills around Nagano. The car rental company Miki Car Rentals who are based in Narita are delivering me a car on the required day to my hotel for a fee of 5000yen (about...

@Tony Crocker @jamesdeluxe and other management heavyweights on here. This could be your chance to get rid of the gaper Australian. For some reason my phone has logged me out of First Tracks. I can't remember my password and I can't use the 'forgot password' thing because the email I used to...

At the very least I know @jamesdeluxe is a golfer. I have recently taken it back up after a 30 year break. I now have a less hectic schedule which will give the time to play. Anyway I’m in the process of lessons and buying gear so I’ve stumbled on these guys while looking through YouTube. They...

The socials are telling me there’s a season starter on the South Island. I’m really trying to resist skiing this coming SH winter. My travel has become one dimensional. I really worry what I would do if an injury prevented a ski trip. I’m going to force myself to enjoy a trip to a beach. :)

Best day ever as the kids say. I think the title gives away what we did today. We had a fast piste ski down to La Daille and then a bus ride to La Fornet. A series of lifts took us to the top of the Val side. From the Montet drag lift we traversed toward the Pays Desert area and then hiked up...

We made our way down the hill to the small resort of Saint Foy Tarantaise. There are only four lifts. The lift ticket was 40 Euro. It’s not a huge place but there is plenty to keep a skier amused for a few days in good conditions. We were two of about 50 people on the entire mountain. Today...

Euan the guide said he was still in denial about the turn of the seasons so wanted one last chance to find us some cold winter snow. We headed up the Toviere gondola from Tignes and skied the meadows under the Tommueses lift all the way down to La Daille. There were some patches of lovely soft...

We woke to sunny skies. There was a little bit of snow overnight but nothing significant. I’m doing a course with Snoworks who are a UK based mob. I did a course with them in Tignes last April. There are 5 groups. Two touring groups and three ‘backcountry’ groups. Each group has between 4 and 6...

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...