Quick update here. @cmor you were totally right. There was overfitting due to how I did the train/test split as well as a few other issues I corrected over the summer. I wrote a more in depth...

Yeah, I agree with the concern about the last couple of days of forecasts (I went ahead and put a statement on the site stating they are incorrect). I need to look in more to why and it could be...

Thanks for the feedback guys. I have checked out winterscience and do know about his work but would be worth having another followup with him.

Hey maggots, it's been awhile since I've been around here. Glad to see things haven't changed.
I just launched a new project https://openavalancheproject.org .

I've been thinking about this idea...

No sorry. I neither work at the 4 seasons nor can afford to stay at one!

Thanks for pointing me to that. Good hourly data is hard to come by in Canada. I'll see if I can get that added in the next update.

SNOTEL & NOAA telemetry stations.

I like the layout, cool to see all that info in a nice compact infographic. Have a couple of questions:

How come new snow depth is kind of minimized in the interface (and it seems only SWE is...

Here is the current user guide: http://ullrlabs.com/pdf/MAST_ProductWalkthrough.pdf its linked on our website. I'll get a link added to the app added in a future update.

Hi, I'm the other half of Ullr Labs.
1. The app is designed to work completely without cell reception. You can then choose to transmit the data once you have reception.
2. We make no decisions in...

My technology is based on having hourly snowfall data available and unfortunately I don't know of any EC telemetry network which does things hourly. Best I've seen is every 6 hours but that doesn't...

@tripleT
I just reviewed the new notifications changes in iOS5 and it may allow me to provide a good user experience while running in the background. I avoided this approach in iOS4 as I didn't...

Alpy was a circus today. Probably 1000 folks waiting for chair 1 when it finally loaded at 9:45. Chair 2 was still not spinning when I left at 10:45.

Knee deep and pretty light by PWN standards....

ok, cool thanks for the tip. The pass I want is for me though as I'm from out of town and wanted to take advantage of their deal to show a pass from another area (I forgot mine at home) and to ski...

I'm visiting my parents now and want to take my 2 year old daughter up to ride the magic carpet tomorrow. Don't want to pay $25 just to do that so looking for anyone in the loveland, CO area who has...

Best TR I've read in awhile. Lots of spirit and adventure!

Hi all, this is the last weekend for the free app. Bumping so that anyone who wants it has a chance. Sale will end Saturday night at midnight.

Damn, finally!

Well I can guarantee we will get pounded presidents day week & colorado will be dry as a bone cause i'll be out there skiing.

Just saw the Ski Utah app removed their support for their Alarm because of technical issues. I wish stoke & goodness to everyone who is leveraging cool ideas so lets turn this in to a positive for...

This was posted up on inhabitat.com slated for Copenhagen but I guess the midwest could use some of these as well.
...

Level I
Shovel, Probe, Transceiver, Avalung pack

Practice once a year with friends on a day the skiing isn't that good. Take turns burying each others beacons.

Cool vid, skiing through that windslab was interesting in the POV & liked the mental text!

I think I remember reading on Cliff Mass' blog that La Nina really only comes in to effect as a variable affecting our weather mid to late Jan. So not being a meteorologist I would expect things to...

Love it guys, one of the best indie edits I've seen this year.
Second the like to real framing and no POV!

Was up at central tonight for my daughters lessons. Pretty soggy. Overhead someone said they heard Alpy was staying closed tomorrow. Not sure if its true as there is nothing posted on the website...

Here is the NWAC extended forecast:
Extended Weather Synopsis for Friday through Sunday

Very strong southwest flow should continue to usher in more frontal systems Friday through the weekend....

In the PNW (except for Whistler) i'm surprised whenever I meet a non-local. Met a few at alpy who were up here over their Christmas break. That was cool.

Mammoth is like culture shock where even...

When I go to Utah, and I usually try to do things on a budget, I just crash in a cheep motel in Sandy. Then you can have your pick on where to go based on snowfall whatnot. Last time I was there we...

Love so see folks getting it in their backyards. Sometimes the best trips don't happen on the biggest mountains.

Funny, I've skied there 100s to days and for some reason I never actually added it up.

Alpental report says 6 at base and 14 at the top. Stevens, & Crystal got only a few and Baker only 5. Quite the anomoly there; convergence zone was pretty narrow I guess. Not sure when the last...

Love the shots, keep it coming! Can't have enough aesthetics to even out the steep aggressive shots.

Nice Job, miss seeing that mountain!

Looks sweet, thanks for posting up. First two pics kind of caught me off guard as I was wondering how you got two different skiers in the exact same spot in the exact same position. But I guess its...

In Washington I would check out Cascade Heli Guides. They do a 5 day trip where they drop you at their hut up by Hearts pass (sick location), do 1 heli drop then 4 days touring before bringing you...

Whistler:
I once got advice to head out of town towards pemberton and find the nearest forest roads. Only problem was there is a train running a few times a night and we were pretty close to the...

Damn, I can't imagine skiing so many awesome lines day after day. Thanks for sharing!

I've found you can get a codo for supercheep in tahoe so I'd check that out. A quick internet search should get a few sites with lots of listings. The bus routes have pretty good coverage. Last...

Awesome pics. I can't say I've seen pics which convey the art of skiing pow as well as those two deep ones you posted. Lots of edits do this but the still shot is elusive. You def captured it!

I'm assuming you mean the rain layer 15-24 inches down right? That will be there until we get another rain event which penetrates that deep or some extreme warming. It usually improves avalance...

Wow and I was kicking myself for not heading down there. Guess it turned out all right.

Seeking someone who wants to get on the ground floor in a new mobile development startup. If you want your shot a living the dream, working on something you love while having the flexibility to do...

Awesome vid. Everyone standing around while you blast through was a great shot.

Hey all, I've added some additional resorts based on user feedback: Mammoth, Mt Hood Meadows, Willamette Pass, Hoodoo, Kirkwood and Solitude.

I spent quite a while trying to figure out how to...

So just for my curiosity how do you become king or queen of Big Sky?

Have you thought about staying in silverthorn/dillon. There are more hotels there than in frisco. I've stayed at both the La Quinta in Silverthorn (though when it used to be a Day's Inn or...

Iphone currently only supports multitask mode for three classes of apps:
Music Playing apps
GPS apps
VOIP (i.e., your skype app)
My app doesn't qualify based on those parameters.

You can do a...

Make sure its left in the alarm screen (pic below). Due to the limitations on the iPhone only one app can run at a time and this has to be the active app for the powder alarms to work. I usually...

Its an old fashioned alarm clock noise. I'm working on an update which will allow you to choose a set of alarms or a playlist from your phone.

I'll look in to some possible east coast support next week as I have some vacation time. I'm not an east coaster so any suggestions on what the top resorts to hit where folks are looking for a...