Who Is Still Skiing and Where?

Just got back from a trip to Snowbird. It was very warm for late April and got very slushy and sticky by noon or one. The snow cover is getting thin in spots and they will be doing good to stay open until mid-May, compared to July 4th last year. I will probably try to make one more trip.

Last weekend the wife and I climbed up and skied the Silverton Mountain heli terrain across the valley from the lift serviced area, since it is now closed. Super smooth velvety corn in the sun.  Weekend before we hit the reopening of Wolf Creek, which looked like this VVV with 18" of new snow.

I'm not giving up yet.  They have plowed the 4WD road up Ophir Pass to almost 12,000 feet, so access is just getting better. 

The fat lady has definitely not sung yet.

Girdwoodguy, great pics of the old playground, thanks.  Hard to beat Spring skiing at Alyeska, enjoy it.

Saturday & Sunday could have been the best corn so far this year.  At Snowbird 1st tram and into Mineral Basin, it was great till about 11, but it was cooked by about 2.  Sunday may have been the end of the season for me though; skied into a hatch of May Flies near the bottom of the tram.  Fish on.

Last weekend of full operation (full-ish) at Squaw and Alpine. Then weekends only at Alpine for two more weeks. Then Mammoth. Then BC.

Still skiing at Crystal and Stevens.  see post:

http://www.epicski.com/t/109447/washington-cascades-2012-instant-tr-thread/90#post_1458551

I just got back from a 10 day trip to Lake Louise. Coverage was like mid season and the snow that fell while I was there pushed them to record annual snowfall levels. Mid week there were not enough skiers for the resort to make money. Good turn out of Calgary skiers on the weekends. LL closes May 6. All of the British Columbia interior resorts closed right after Easter for lack of skiers, not lack of snow.
 

Silver Mountain, Idaho still going on Saturdays. Looks like an inch or three of new is on tap for this weekend.

Crystal Mt went into July (albeit with limited ops) last year. I always ski the last weekend in April in the WA Cascades and there is always great coverage (spring has not typically begun here yet) and in fact there is usually new snow. Freshies are forecast for this week at Crystal and I will be there Saturday.

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Originally Posted by Christy319 

Crystal Mt went into July (albeit with limited ops) last year.

Despite a nice deep snowpack, I'll be pretty surprised if they make it as long this year.  We've had a really warm April so far compared to last year, and that's going to hurt come June and July.  But, we'll see what the next month of weather brings.  That said, the spring skiing up there has been fantastic the last couple weekends.

Still skiing at Hintertux Glacier (3,250 meters/10,000 + feet) in Southern Austria. Crazy nice day yesterday, tiring myself out on nearly 6,000 vertical feet from highest lift to valley run (which was open), and lots of snow.

Last photo is a friend searching for his skis... both hiding somewhere under the snow. He did find them within about 10 minutes! 

Skiing in Melbourne Australia while waiting for snow, which usually starts falling in July.

I just got my prototype dry surface ski based on a patent protected design made.

I can curve on any reasonable smooth surface but will try grass with bigger pneumatic wheels soon.

Check it out and please let me know what you think.

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Originally Posted by Bob Lee 

Backcountry skiing will continue for months in many places. Today I skied the bc behind Taos Ski Valley. Still plenty of snow there, should last 'till May, ...

My pictures from last Tuesday sucked, but here's one that a guy took of me.  Nice day:

Does riding a stationary bike while watching ski porn count? 

Peak 8 at Breck is suppose to be open this weekend...not sure what it will be like as it has been in the 60s most of the week.  My last day on snow was Friday the 20th at Loveland.  Here is a video of my 6 yo cousin at LL on the 18th...her first time seeing snow was Friday April 13.

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Originally Posted by Finndog 

Does riding a stationary bike while watching ski porn count? 

Only if you have ski boots on,otherwise no.

Timberline,Oregon

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Originally Posted by Bob Lee 

Backcountry skiing will continue for months in many places. Today I skied the bc behind Taos Ski Valley. Still plenty of snow there, should last 'till May, then there's Colorado and Wyoming bc.

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Originally Posted by Bob Lee 

 

 

My pictures from last Tuesday sucked, but here's one that a guy took of me.  Nice day:

Nice!!!

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Originally Posted by Sinecure 

Last weekend of full operation (full-ish) at Squaw and Alpine. Then weekends only at Alpine for two more weeks. Then Mammoth. Then BC.

I'll be skiing until the bitter end. We should meet up. 

 

I'm skiing at Alpenatal next weekend for their big Cinco De Mayo party.  Possibly even if it's raining.

Whistler for the past 5 days, then looks like I'll be back up again for the coming weekend. It was wet but wonderful on Monday.

Planning to go up the Mt Hood tomorrow, will see if that 1/2 foot of fresh still there... We got the pond skimming at Meadows, that will mark our end of regular season. I know that 4th of July we are staying overnight at Timberline so fngers crossed :)

Vlad

Off to Snwobird again. 7" last night qnd supoosed to be a lot cooler for a few days.

Snowbowl picked up five inches last night (up top), so I climbed up for a run today.

This is the best time of year for skiing in Banff.  The end of March is when I start to ramp up my ski days, and from this point (late April) on I expect to get in at least 15-20 more ski days.

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Originally Posted by exracer 

This is the best time of year for skiing in Banff.  The end of March is when I start to ramp up my ski days, and from this point (late April) on I expect to get in at least 15-20 more ski days.

I wish it was such here, we've lost a lot of snow in the past week; I had to hike down the bottom 500 vertical feet today.