How to make the best of one of the worst Western US snowpacks in history… OK, this wasn’t the best season ever by a long shot, but persistence and resetting expectations regularly kept us in the fun zone most of the time. In fact, out of 67 ski days I can only remember 3 that …
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Dry in the west Snowfall in the west has been hard to come by this year, but here in Tahoe we’ve been a little luckier than many other regions. We had a major storm that arrived just in time for Christmas, and another one right around the President’s holiday week. Those 2 10-day storm cycles …
The 100+ Resorts Last year we finished up our project to ski the Best / Top 100 ski resorts in North America, but there are of course lots more resorts that should have been considered for the list. Even just looking at resorts that qualify based on stats alone, there are at least 29 that …
Wrapping up the 24/25 season at Mammoth As is our tradition, we had a ski/camping trip to Mammoth again this year to wrap up the season. Due to warm temps and lack of snow causing early melt-out in the Sierra, this was a bit earlier than normal in early May. That made it 41 days …
Finished! It’s with mixed emotions that we announce the completion of the project! Through 12 years, countless long drives and airline flights, and lots of challenges we stuck with it. The reward is a collection of the best memories of our lives skiing these 100 fantastic resorts together. It’s a little sad that it’s over, …
Back home… After our great trip to Jackson Hole and Grand Targhee just before Christmas, we came back to California to do some skiing closer to home. We hit Dodge Ridge on Christmas day which is always a great uncrowded day to ski. It’s covered by our Cali Pass and we had vowed to make …
It’s hard to believe, but we came up with the idea for this project 12 years ago. Here we are again starting another fun-filled ski season! If all goes well, this will be the year we ski resort #100 Alyeska, Alaska and finish the project. Season 12 is already well underway… I’m writing this from …
The 23/24 ski season wrapped up earlier than normal for us on April 21st when both Heavenly and Sierra at Tahoe closed for the season. Last year we skied until July and posted our year end wrap post more than 2 months later! Mammoth didn’t get much snow this year so will be closing before …
We’ve been busy having fun on the slopes since the last update. Frequent small storms (and one huge one) in Tahoe brought our annual snowfall almost up to average. Tahoe always seems to come through in the end! Utah trip In mid February we spent a week in Park City and Salt Lake City skiing …
A slow start in the Sierra The last 2 years spoiled us. By this time last year we had received 143″ of snow at our house. The year before it was an even more massive 152″. This year we’ve had only 2 “storms” and a total of 12″! Dodge Ridge in the central Sierra isn’t …