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Ski Spring Break: Big Sky, Jackson, and Grand Targhee

Posted on: 27 May 2019 /

Categories: road trips, Skiing

They were all better than Sun Valley. The Mountain Collective pass I bought for this ski season included both Big Sky and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR). And then there was spring break in March, so: northward, ho! I’d never been to Big Sky before, although I’d driven down that highway from Bozeman to West

Skiing Sun Valley

Posted on: 24 May 2019 /

Categories: Skiing, Travel

And… it’s 2019. I had a Mountain Collective pass this year, which included two free days (I mean, free once you buy the pass) at each of Snowbasin, Snowbird, Alta, Jackson Hole, Big Sky, Squaw Valley, Mammoth, Taos maybe?, somewhere in Alberta, probably a couple other places, and Sun Valley. I’d never been to Sun

What I Did on My Winter Vacation, Part III: Copper Mountain

Posted on: 19 March 2017 /

Categories: road trips, Skiing, Travel

The drive from Monarch to Frisco and Copper Mountain was the most intense 104-mile drive of my life. It took three hours. During the trip I probably saw about five total miles of bare pavement, the rest was all ice-encrusted. I’ve been living in Oklahoma for the last three years; this was not an environment

What I Did on My Winter Vacation, Part II: Taos and Monarch

Posted on: 19 January 2017 /

Categories: Cities, road trips, Skiing, Travel

From the greater Phoenix area, I headed back the way I came, up that one highway that probably has a number toward Holbrook. It was still pretty: Although it also spat snow somewhere in those mountains, a true harbinger of the two weeks to come. Which is good, since I cannot abide a false harbinger.

Monarch Mountain Trip Report

Posted on: 3 January 2017 /

Categories: Skiing

Went to Monarch for the first time yesterday. That place is awful. No one should ever go there. Location First off, Monarch is far from everything. It’s not even in the middle, but rather on the outskirts of nowhere. The town of Salida (pronounced Sa-LY-da as if the Spanish language isn’t even a thing) is

Spring Break in the UT

Posted on: 10 June 2016 /

Categories: Skiing, Travel

It seems like a long time ago. I was there longer than usual due to airfare insanity. Skiing primarily. A lot of family things. Thanks to Caitlin and Mark for letting me stay with them and RKD for driving up, I think, mostly just so I could spend a day or two with Ammon. Here

Ski Weekend on the Front Range

Posted on: 7 June 2016 /

Categories: Skiing, Travel

Went to Colorado for a quick (three-day) weekend back in February as sort of a proof of concept. The concept being the reasonableness of going to Colorado to ski for a weekend. I flew in on Thursday night after class, rented a mid-size SUV (Ford Escape as it turned out) “at” the airport, then headed

My Winter with the Mountain Collective

Posted on: 11 April 2014 /

Categories: Skiing

If you’re unaware, the Mountain Collective is essentially a season-long ski pass that: Gets you two free days at each of six (high end, mostly huge) ski resorts, namely: Alta-Snowbird, Aspen (all four areas), Jackson Hole, Mammoth, Squaw Valley/Alpine Meadows, and Whistler-Blackcomb Plus half price for any additional days. Of course, with a set-up like

Alpine, Mammoth & Squaw: The Year of Skiing Marginally Continues

Posted on: 26 January 2014 /

Categories: Skiing, Travel

Switzerland: Fog and ice patches. PNW: Depending on the day, but fog and ice patches also. Tahoe: Drought! Was at Alpine for the first time ever on Wednesday. It looked like this: The terrain looks awesome; shame not to be able to ski it — it’s amazing that they’ve kept the place skiable at all

Whistler-Blackcomb: A Huge Ski Resort

Posted on: 15 January 2014 /

Categories: Skiing, Travel

Here are some things I did at Whistler that I’d never done before: Skied a glacier. Unless I did that in Switzerland and just couldn’t see it well enough to recognize that it happened. Rode a T-bar. Hiked up a hill to get to a put-in spot. Skied in Canada. All these posts are magnum

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