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Atrocious music. Meanwhile I'm sick. Must drag myself out tomorrow. :'(

Jeff, I spent from 1987 to 2003 skiing Camelback. From 8 to 2 or so, both days every weekend. 5000 would have been a light day.

Let me get this straight... You skied 2.5 hours? Makes me feel a lot better about only skiing 3 runs today with a sore throat and a fever.

Same as any normal day in the single digits. Main issue was wind today. Unrelenting. Things were either scoured or waves of fluff. Nice skiing, but brutal chair ride. Chair one time slammed into some kind of guide as it approached the terminal just after I had raised the bar. Thank goodness that chair has a center armrest as I needed to grab it way quick to avoid being tossed off. The walk from my car to the lodge should have warned me. I could hardly walk, was sort of stumbling around like I was drunk.

No lines today. -4F with 25 MPH sustained winds. On chair two. Can't imagine what the summit was like. (not open)

Lesson day. And end of day view of North Bowl:

More landscape. Frigid Monday. View into Canada....so glad they've returned to their homeland...

"Action shot" of my friend on a frigid Sunday.

Elephant's Graveyard: View from Bob's Run:

Daily video. If I skied faster, I might get face shots, but for me they're just knee shots.

Dumped all day long. Came home exhausted. Good Med. North Fork: Finally, end of day in Lee's Way:

http://fsavalanche.org/NAC/techPages/articles/06_ISSW_Greene_etal.pdf&cd=6&ved=0CDsQFjAF&usg=AFQjCNHPb1fPsbzkLkWw-TyGmRS56nU5Aw&sig2=1o1v9WYFEv4VvO36uvMNpQ

Really? It's groomed.

Isn't there some study that says most avalanche deaths are during the "considerable" warning times, not the "high" times, because most people have enough sense to stay away during "high" period, but self-styled experts and others with lots of trips think that they will know when to say no, but don't.

Another.

Early tracks after the storm.

There was another tree well death here. Brother of an Olympic skier. http://m.nbcmontana.com/news/tree-well-death-at-whitefish-mountain-resort/24530174

Nice creamy snow in Evan's.

Actually, the most you would pay here is $67 and you can do it for $50. And to me, that's a lot of money. When you add the cost of skiing to the HASSLE of skiing, no wonder people are buying 60 inch screens and a Wii ski app and staying home.

Whitefish is setting new records annually. But, definitely over the past fifty years, skiing and boarding have not kept up with the general population. There have been endless discussions about the reasons on Epic. At least ski areas are finally starting to acknowledge they have a problem. Their approaches to fixing the problem, though, are all over the map. Too many short term profit guys are still running many areas.

No more vast than most places in Colorado.

Yesterday, skiing The Face with a friend. Snow on the way.

Unless she gets hurt repeatedly over the next four years. Tough break.

No. There's no rush. 500 today, mostly paper tickets. I do have friends who start skiing chair six at 8:30, but they're nuts. Chair one doesn't open until 9:30 on a normal day. With these temps it's even later. I've managed to time it so it's just opening as I arrive. Chair 2 opens at 9, but I'm not all that fond of that part of the mountain. Lots of tourons, man-made snow as a base, always groomed, faces south and gets pretty wind blasted. Whenever my stamina is such that I'm running out of day before I run out of energy, I'll get there earlier.