Well everyone on planet Earth will remember how the world changed in March 2020. The coronavirus ended our season 2 months early this year. At first Vail said they might reopen Heavenly in May, but it doesn’t look like there is any way ANY ski resorts will open back up before the snow melts. For …
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After some great Christmas skiing in Tahoe and 3 consecutive powder days in mid-January, we headed out on our second trip of the ski season. We returned to one of our favorites: Sun Valley and hit our 2nd new resort of this ski season: Tamarack. This was the first time we ever flew into Boise …
It’s the end of December, and we’ve already been working on the project for about 3 months. It usually starts in late September when we start getting winter pattern predictions for the upcoming season. Those don’t become solid until October so we usually hold off on reservations until then, but it’s always a gamble when …
2018/19 was another great year for us. I got a record 63 days and AiRung recorded a new high mark of 44 days. To keep that in perspective, that means that I skied 1 out of every 3 days from November 30th to May 31st. That’s dedication considering I’m holding down a full-time job! Adobe …
This year’s Big Trip was VERY BIG. 17 days long and 2600 total driving miles to be exact. We were not as ambitious as previous years, and planned to get 2 of the last 4 resorts on the list in Colorado done. We also want to revisit one of our top 2 favorite resorts: Telluride. …
Our 3rd trip of the year began to take shape when Vermont got pounded with early season snow in November. That was looking pretty good from dry, smokey California where we were reading about firestorms and waiting for snow in Tahoe. With our full Epic passes this year, we got “free” skiing at Stowe, VT. …
The Whistler Christmas trip was our 2nd of the the 2018/19 season. This year we decided to get full Epic passes for Vail resorts which gave us access to Whistler/Blackcomb over the Christmas holidays. We have been there twice before in the winter and spring and never had good conditions so we wanted to give …
We are excited to start on the 7th full season of the Ski North America 100 project and 18th year accumulating resort visits to the best 100 ski resorts in North America. Somehow we are already 75% of the way finished, but we still expect the project to take another 5-10 years to finish all …
This summer I got a chance to check off one of the items on my bucket list — skiing in Australia! My daughter lives in the Outback in Alice Springs has been there for 1 1/2 years, so it was time for a visit. Since it is such a long journey I decided to take …
The end of our ski season has arrived so we will reluctantly hang them up and reflect on what was our best year ever! Records were broken, and some great memories were made. Kirkwood closed on April 8th and Heavenly on the 22nd, so this last weekend was the first time I was not skiing and …