As long-time visitors to PCMR and The Canyons my perspective is that the 2 resorts were much more fun and were distinct individual experiences under their previous owners. Now they are just one huge...

There was a chairlift fall at Bear Valley yesterday that resulted in a helicopter ambulance flight. It was on the Polar Express chair just after loading. Looked like maybe a 12' fall, so I was...

This is the reckoning that has always been coming for ski resorts. The sources of cheap labor are drying up and paying folks $21 / hr for a skilled labor position that requires medical...

We made the looong trip to Marmot last winter from California. Love that place. There is a little something for everyone there, and Jasper is a real town. Great vibes all around.

Whatever plans they have, if they close the resort for a season the value of the asset drops. All that stuff needs to be maintained. Once it sits for 2-3 seasons it's a massive undertaking to get...

I think it was about 20 years ago when Rio Costilla was for sale for about $550K near Costilla, NM. That would have been perfect for you. 260" of snowfall and some excellent terrain with a 2,150'...

I've been living in the Meyers area off and on for 18 years. I prefer this area because it's about 16 minutes drive to either Sierra or Heavenly. It's also a shorter drive to Kirkwood than if you...

I think it's a reference to the traffic, not the post office. Everyone loves postal workers.

Yeah, we live in SLT and do this all the time. Kind of like those people that want to visit all the National Parks, we travel around and visit ski resorts. We live in SLT because it's our favorite...

That's funny because my wife and I flew to Boston (from SFO) in early March on a red eye, drove to Sugarloaf the next morning, skied 2 days there (including snowcat), then consecutive days skiing 1...

Yup. The 3-pack just gives you a way to get their high season advance purchase rate with the flexibility of using days last minute. It's a pretty thin advantage.

If they do end up charging $278...

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I built this one with a wedge insert for the side access. I think GFC's have a similar situation. No need to cut holes.

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Love that place. I wish we had something like that closer to us here in Tahoe. Cheap, empty midweek, and legit terrain.

So many great smaller indy mountains in Montana. I'm perfectly happy...

You just gave me an idea for a great product that I'm pretty sure a lot of people on this forum would buy.



The antenna is on a tent pole propped up against a tree or held up with ropes and...

I've gotten amazing results with this: https://www.amazon.com/Booster-Carriers-Amplifier-Repeater-Approved/dp/B09N9CCSF1?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1&psc=1

1 shitty bar that can't send a text can turn...

Here's a study on post-fire tree regrowth after 20 years: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/11779/ in the Bitterroot range of Montana. I read this a while back and was reminded of it reading this...

I'm insulin-dependent and it's not really that big of a deal for insulin to be unrefrigerated. 3-4 days of insulin is carried on my person in my insulin pump. Not only is it not refrigerated, it...

Probably something like this, so bowling isn't a bad idea:

https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback/#active=6863&ext=-119.06717,37.62044,-118.99249,37.66068&localChangesOnly=true&selected=14342
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I was thinking how bad it would be to be stuck inside our fiberglass trailer if that happened to us, but all commercially available RV's do have some sort of emergency exit. It's usually a big...

^^^ Thanks for doing that! Gives me a great feel for what we will find next ski season. I imagine many/most of the standing dead trees will be felled but I don't know how they decide that. Lower...

The front side of Kirkwood has been amazingly wind-free. We've been going every other day and even when their own weather forecast said to expect wind to 85 mph it was barely blowing at the top of...

Charging phones using 5V USB running off 12V via a cigarette socket or direct wired wastes far less energy in stepping down the voltage than plugging a household 120V USB power source into an...

I dislocated and shattered my humerus head (the ball part of the joint) in the early 90's snowboarding in Crested Butte. Same thing with the shoulder dropped way down. That was the most pain I've...

There is a huge difference between a 200+ HP snowmobile operating in a wilderness area making all kinds of noise and a silent 1 HP e-mountain bike on forest service land that is otherwise open to...

I think I found the source of the Homewood problem: Math!

"Over the past decade, skier visits to Homewood have dropped 40% and season passholder sales have fallen from 2,800 in 2012 to 1,800 this...

Heavenly was surprisingly good today from 9-12. It was snowing pretty hard and by 11AM when it shut off about 3" had fallen above 8500'. Skied onto every lift. Hopefully this is the beginning of...

This reminds me of struggling to survive in Crested Butte from '85 to '93. First I lived in a mobile home down in Gunnison that was $200 / month and drove to work at the mountain in my '72 VW Bug...

Lots of talk about MTN (Vail) stock on TG so I looked at the numbers. It's down about 39% off the 52 week high as of today. The DOW is down about 12% and NASDAQ down about 22%, so it's definitely...

Got caught on the west side of that rock at 6PM. 3 1/2 hrs to get what would normally be 10 minutes. This was before they started turning people around at Sly Park, so I made it all the way to the...

I haven't seen this posted here -- really interesting blog post about grooming at Palisades from three days ago
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NBC has slowly turned the Olympics coverage into a reality show that focuses on feelings rather than sport. I've been watching winter Olympics since the 70's and each time it gets worse. This has...

I'm amazed that people will buy a season pass to ski a hill with a maximum vertical of 264', and then stand in line waiting to get lifted to the top of said hill.

My locals Heavenly and Kirkwood have been pretty much business as usual this year. The big storms in December caused an inevitable cluster but I'd almost say traffic is way down vs last year at this...

Steep groomers and chalky Wall stuff at Kirkwood today. It's still fun, but bring your sharp edges.
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From this afternoon's NWS Reno office forecast discussion:

"There are weak signals emerging that the current dry spell will end
after mid-month. GEFS and European ensemble simulations are showing...

Oh damn. Used to go up there with the kids and dogs all the time.

My wife gets more upset about this than I do. The other day she just went ahead and skied across 2 snowboards that were on the ground in the way with the snowboarders standing next to them.

True, but Heavenly has been running pretty smoothly this year given the supposed challenges. Only one chair (Galaxy) is unstaffed. I talked to some liftys about it and they said there were no...

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Thursday at Dodge Ridge. Hadn't been there in 19 years. It hasn't changed much. It's cool that Sierra passholders can ski unlimited midweek this season. Wife and I had a good time...

I was confused about this as well because I hadn't heard about another California ski resort proposal. It's just a wine-country housing development on about 1,500 acres. No mention of skiing.

As a former snowmaker, it's stunning to me that it took so long to turn off that water pump. There is supposed to be an operator available to turn shit off for just such an occurrence. It's...

Looks like EVail has significantly increased their EVIL quotient this year.

From The Canyons village: Take the Red Pine Gondola. From the top of the Red Pine Gondola ski down Chicane. Take the Timberline lift to the Iron Mountain lift. Ski Mercury to Chrome Alley and get...

Just for kicks, here a couple of pics taken from the top of what would become the South Bowl West chair. The 1st one would be right down what I think would be the SB-06 run. The 2nd one shows the...

This is something that has interested me since I was a kid. When I was a teen I actively looked around for mountains that could be developed into ski resorts. I could see snow on Redondo Peak north...

I wasn't at Heavenly, but I can tell you about Kirkwood which was surprisingly fun yesterday. I decided to catch the last hour or so to avoid the long line I was seeing on the webcam so I started at...

SF Chronicle article about Sierra at Tahoe

Mine is a 500Wh standard Bosch battery from 2017. I'm guessing you are getting an Orbea Rise (jelly!) which is one of the only bikes I know of with a 360wh battery. The charger is similar in that...

My Bosch e-bike charger draws 2.2 amps at 120v. That means the Jackery (at 90% efficiency for the pure sine wave inverter) will be drawing 24.4 amps at 12v. At 46.4Ah you will be able to charge for...

TAMBA is doing some good work doing post Caldor Fire cleanup in South Lake. I saw a trail crew working in the firebreak in our neighborhood re-establishing trail that was dozered so I grabbed a rake...