Category : Skiing
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
This blog is apparently now mostly about chronicling my experiences of skiing badly in as many places as possible. OTOH, at least it has a theme. I grew up in the Seattle area, but had never been to Mt. Baker before (for skiing). I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that what
Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ski in the Swiss Alps so, naturally, this: Was at a conference in Milan and have a friend who lives in Bern who had invited me up to his place for a couple days. Bern was great, his place was great, the food was great, people generally great, just that the skiing
I wrote all these up on the plane ride home. FYI. Paid: $49 (Reno Sports Authority) Quality of Random Lift Strangers: 9/10 Weather: Overcast with some eventual light snowfall. Would Return?: Definitely I’m probably just a sucker for ski resorts with lake views, but I loved Diamond Peak, despite its shortcomings and quirks. I liked
Paid: $60 (bought someone’s voucher off Craig’s List a month in advance) Quality of Random Lift Strangers: 6/10 Weather: OVERCAST with light snowfall throughout. Would Return?: Maybe This was the big powder day of the week with it having snowed all day Wednesday. I heard from one random lift stranger that she’d had an even
Paid: $49 (weekday full-time student price at window) Quality of Random Lift Strangers: N/A Weather: Sunny with high winds at the top. Would Return?: Probably Mt. Rose was exactly as advertised: unpretentious, locals-centric, solid vertical and elevation, and windy (although I think everywhere was probably windy that day). In terms of attitude and vibe, Mt.
Paid: $93 (bought at Sports Authority in Reno the night before) Quality of Random Lift Strangers: 5/10 Weather: Absolute Bluebird (my bro’s thermometer read 42 degrees on our way up Sky Express the one time) Would Return?: Definitely Given the advice I’d read on EpicSki, we chose a side and ended up spending almost the
Headed up skiing to Crystal Mountain with my dad yesterday. I’m guessing I hadn’t been there since some time before 2000 (the year). Um. Here are some facts so that I can list here in order to break up the photos: It was a beautiful, sunny day. Got up to maybe the mid-30’s, warm enough
Went to White Pass for the first time in my life on Thursday. Snow was PNW-great, visibility was interesting and variable, with a freezing fog making Couloir Basin kind of useless and about a 60-second sun break in the early afternoon. I didn’t take many photos, but among them were these… Mach V was
This is the last one of these for a while probably. Mad River Glen kind of takes Smuggler’s Notch’s approach of “mostly locals” and pushes it a little further into something akin to “locals only”. It’s a little odd showing up at a ski resort where everyone else seems to know each other because they’re
