I think there are a couple of factors at play.

Equipment has made skiing fresh snow and steep stuff so much easier. It has been a gradual change over 20 years or so.

Epic pass (and...

Merriam-Webster gives the first usage as 1860. So been around a while, to denote clear blue sky. Not sure when it distinctly became associated with skiing
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Probably they need to pull it down and get some sort of prep work done before the bike season begins as well.

There is an 8 going in Fitz, which will help a little on busy days. However, the whole resort is basically 3 funnels, coming down to the base. The nature of the resort is there are more lifts up high...

So many flow on effects.

Creekside ski school will have to be moved, apart from maybe magic carpet people at the bottom. A bit of a logistical nightmare for the resort to organise. Along with a...

I wonder if you will be allowed to ski out down to Creekside? You would think there would have to be times when it is completely closed. Can't imagine they would let people ski anywhere near the...

Never judge the weather or conditions from the village. It might be wet, raining in the village, yet at the top it could be a clear sunny day or puking snow

There are basically 3 levels to the...

Either that, or else someone buried a stash of drugs or cash in the basement, or hid a body in there somewhere;)

It is the unknown that is the concern. What they might have done, and gone undetected.
For example, imagine someone was trying to cut the cable, and got disturbed or spooked, so it was only half...

It all does seem a little "coincidental" and "convenient"

However, it stretches credibility to imagine Bonny Henry and Adrian Dix in a Zoom linkup with the Vail overlords, conspiring to set this...

Doesn't take much of a fall if you are unlucky and rag doll your head into a rock:frown: Probably just got really unlucky

They may not necessarily be talking about a 20m drop. Maybe a 20m total...

In a normal season I find that mildly annoying, when you are skiing by yourself. Get in the singles line, only to find it full of groups of people who obviously know each other, but have taken the...

To be expected really. Hype for opening and very limited lifts / capacity / terrain. Once the whole mountain gets open it will be different .... at least during the week and out of holidays:wink:...

Might be of interest to people what Vail did in Australia.

The state of Victoria was placed in lockdown, with travel restrictions. The Victorian resorts closed. Meanwhile NSW resorts stayed open....

In the forensic analysis of the first cable cut you can see that the cut lines are slightly curved. Knowing the thickness of the cable, you can infer the diameter of the cutting instrument, around...

For reference, my experience here in Australia with the epic pass and reservations for our current season.

At the beginning of the season, with limited terrain and lifts, we had to make a...

Out of interest, might be interesting for people to know what is going on here in Australia. Currently mid season at Perisher, which is Vails biggest resort down here.

Resorts are running at 50%...

Alaska has around 1,000 covid cases, compared to the lower 48 at roughly 2,600,000 cases. So I suspect the Alaskans are not too excited about people driving up there either :eek:

Yep. I can't possibly see anything that could happen in the next week to make the scenario look any better.

They managed to keep that pretty quiet, given it happened on monday.

I think it would be a lot harder now than 10-15 years ago. The level of the horstman glacier is just so much lower and more hollowed out in the middle.

Hey, there's even a secret gondola. Called kadenwood, heard the skiing is awesome up there :biggrin: Tell everyone to load up there on a powder day:wink:

and Whistler early on:eek:

I look at that map, and think of all the people recently complaining about the alpine not being open :) Never rode it then, but it must have taken half the day to get to the top, and the top was...

They use industrial x-rays on the haul ropes. It gets passed through a little machine, and engineers look at that for imperfections. This is not done regularly, but there is a maintenence schedule....

I distinctly remember the day when we had a complete roll reversal:smile:

I remember when she was little, maybe 5 she would sometimes have complete meldowns on the slope, crying, saying I can’t do...

Salomon BBR. They were pretty popular around 2012, and the shape was certainly not like anything else. They had a free demo one day, so what the heck? About 10 turns down the hill I realised they...

Depends I think. If it has been closed due to fresh snow, and people have been lining up at the gate for a while to get in, then get on the back of the queue behind the other 200 waiting or be...

Normally seen queued up at longhorn at 7am in shorts

During the activity the main things that are going to help you are fitness, technique and to some degree equipment. By equipment mainly skis, but also boot fitting and setup. The wrong setup can...

There is a guy with a metal detector who you can pay to come out and help find the ski. Don't have his details, but ski patrol probably have his number. He doesn't like going into really steep...

Sleigh rides, dog sled rides.

Not sure if they still have it, but there used to be a thing where you could get skiied around the mountain. They had a set up, kind of like a wheelchair sitting on...

I travel overseas with skis all the time. the airline weights, bag limits and baggage costs are the killer. Research that carefully.

It is possible to travel with just a rollerbag and hand...

Love the "VD chutes"! When the snow is on, that is a great place to be! There is also "poop chutes" into blackcomb glacier.

On a different theme, I love the names at Blackcomb, "DOA", "coma" and...

As much as you want it to be true, "food bank" and "trust fund" are terms that would never be used by an Aussie, as they don't exist back home.

Beware, today 26/1 is Australia day, so look out...

I went to the bathroom at whistler. At the urinal next to me the gaper with gopro on his helmet had forgotten to either take his helmet off or switch the camera off, whilst he was looking down...

For those with a sense of history about antarctica I would highly recommend this book
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Hi,

Sent some money. I'd rather spend the money on a good cause than wasting it. Get well soon

Robbo