Welcome. What neck of the hood?

That's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, if'n ya know what I mean....

Fuck, mang. Heal quickly and well.

Speak for yourself. Oh wait, you are.

Nicely played.

Well, where it fell on top of the stuff you've been skiing....

Jeez - makes the $125 seaplane from Sausalito seem like a bargain.


I was gonna try, but the boy's last water polo tournament ever is Saturday morning. Plus, can't drink on doctor's orders. ...

Snowmass had the entire upper mountain on wind hold yesterday while rain fell intermittently.

Not what I had in mind for feeling like home.

The way the snowpack set up, with so many precipitation events having a high snow line, the runouts at the bottom of the hill were really iffy. They might have been able to farm enough snow from...

Last year ended weird, to be sure.

Been offline for a bit, so answering some old posts.

I'll be in A$$pen next week, then SoCal the following, so won't be hitting Alpine again until three weeks from now. I wonder how different...

Inbounds too.

But I must say that my first hour today was my best of the season.

TTBOMK, it's been true since the shuttle started. I believe that lot is where the shuttles live.


Yep. And when those are the criteria, your choices are basically Squaw and... Northstar?

Check out shuttle route options too, including Chariot. Bear in mind that the Squaw/Alpine Shuttle stops at the parking lot at the base of Alpine Meadows Road, right next to a bunch of condos that...

Thanks to the Wayback Machine....

Gold up $40 ($829 -> $869)
Silver up $70 ($589 -> $659)
Bronze up $30 ($469 -> $499)
College up $40 ($429 -> $469)

Interesting that Silver was bumped most. ...

Given the forecast for the next few days, the harvest opportunities may start to present themselves.

Sequence is key.


They were apparently on wind hold too.

I'll be up later in the week, sadly.

At Alpine, Subway is on wind hold.

That is all.

Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.


At least you had today. My presence was required in the Bay Area this weekend. Grrr. Although I did brave the mudslides to take a nice fast...

When Orange Julius Caesar wants to keep them out.

Could be a good call.

(Says the guy who's putting dedicated snows on his Outback today.)

Plus, conditions are more consistent over a 1500' drop than a 4000' one.

And it's not like, at my age, I'm skiing 4000' without a rest. Might as well take that rest on the chair.

I wasn't inclined to hike, having spent the past six weeks, and almost all of the last 12, at sea level.

But I can definitively say that skier's right of Yellow (lower) and Skadi Hill were awesome...

Summit opened at Alpine today. Remarkably good coverage for first weekend of December. Fun windpacked chalk off piste on Peril Ridge, a little dicier in Deer Camp.

I'll probably be on the other side of the ridge, enjoying newly opened Summit. http://squawalpine.com/explore/blog/terrain-expansion-squaw-and-alpine

But I'll text you if I poke over to that side.

I suppose we'll have to take your word for it.

The most recent roundcam pic (the camera came up briefly Sunday afternoon after power was restored, but down again) suggests that it's pretty iffy anywhere but Alpine Bowl proper.

And I don't...

My thought as well. http://www.pacificcrestsnowcats.com/ is a little more than half the price.

A New New Mexican Mexican restaurant? No thank you. I'm waiting for the new New Mexican Mexican New Mexican restaurant.

Indeed. Strong work.


Sadly, I cannot take credit. Lawyer, not meteorologist.


These days, I think Google is more reliable.