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The ultimate gaper outfit.

Nice snow. Totally different kind of trees there. Looks like a lot are pretty close, but at least you can see around them, more like gates on a race course than the trees we have here. The last one is more like what we have here. Can you shrink the size of the pics a bit, tho? I have a 24 inch screen and still have to use the scroll bar to get a look at the whole picture? Maybe half size would be better?

Wow, that's a totally different video than I remember, lots more stuff in it.

So, are you cleared to do tricks again or are you done with that stuff? As a mom, of course, I hope you're going to take it easy for a few years.

I thought that Nipples was the Papasteeze kid who was in Whistler for race camp and that's when he got the name? No?

The copter? They've had the Alert helicopter ever since I moved here. I assume that they're based out of either the Glacier Park Int'l or Kalispell airport. They take the patient to Kalispell Regional Medical Center. Not sure when you were here, but it says Alert started around 3 decades back. More history. It was there this AM, apparently doing Ski Patrol training of some kind. I overheard someone say in the locker room that it now has some kind of Recco (sp?) locator and they were testing it by having guys hide on Good Med and the copter was trying to locate them.

55 people all trying to fit in a car that was already full. People would actually DRAG you backwards and try and duck around in front of you to get on a car. If you objected to being shoved aside, the next thing you know you were in a shoving match. Try working in NYC sometime. I had a guy threaten to kill me on a public street in front of 100's of people at lunch hour because I told the woman whose bag he was trying to get his hand in what he was up to.

Some pics from today

I'm from NJ (well, 23 years in PA, 24 years in NJ), have skied Mountain Creek several times over the years and HATED it every time entirely due to the people that go there. My resort was CB, also not known for "loving" attitudes, but the problem people were the NY people, not the PA people. When I worked in the city, I actually got into physical fights with people on the PATH and on the subway. So glad I moved to MT.....

We had three days in a row here I saw our Alert copter arriving. Haven't noticed it lately.

You should have piled in the car and driven here:

Nice pictures. I sometimes wish we had sun....

Actually, relative to that article, I heard that the fact that the snowboard doesn't release slows the body down, whereas skis release, so there is nothing to cause drag before a body slams into a tree. In my own circumstances where a tree branch or rock ripped off my ski, the board would have stayed on, whereas the ski came off. I kept moving and slammed into a tree. The board would have perhaps caused the boarder to lose his balance and hit the trail and not have skidded into the tree I slammed into.

For instance, according to Tony Crocker's stats, Big Sky and Moonlight's average annual maximum base depth is 68 inches. Now, they are higher so they get lighter snow than we do. However, maybe the reason you'll need some base work done when you ski there is because of that base depth. Ours is listed at 113 inches. Bridger also gets the light fluffy stuff, and their seasonal average snow fall is very close to ours, but again their base depth is lower. Now, for the real surprise, highly touted Jackson gets an AVERAGE of 368 inches vs. Whitefish's 320, but their base depth is 98 while ours is, as I said, 113. I trust all Tony's stats because he is collecting them objectively and not (like the ski areas) trying to sell a lift ticket. Anyway, the point is, snowfall is NOT the whole story. Wow, editing time on this was a pain. Timed out too fast....

Well, you know, once all the rocks are covered, how much do you need? Also, since some resorts get light fluffy snow which packs down to nothing and others get more solid snow which builds up all winter, I don't even think you can compare the number across resorts. I think that maybe an average seasonal snowpack number would tell you more, and even that would depend on how much they "groom" the trails of rocks and trees during the off season.

You might do a search over on EpicSki, a lot of those guys have been there. I think it's a popular destination.

I don't think he meant Missouri, I think I meant Montana (MT).

Frigid again today. Once again, no one there. I was suffering from a stomach bug and was severely dehydrated, so I really couldn't hit things today like I did yesterday, darn it. I thought about skiing tomorrow, then decided I better take off and rest instead. This is Good Med today:

Who could tell? It was in the single digits, negative in the AM with wind. I was totally bundled up. The light pillar will tell you, tho, that there was FROZEN humidity flying in the air.

I had a fantabulous day today. Found one of the balls I'd lost. No one there, it was too cold for most of the people, temps in the negative and positive single digits all day. I was dressed for it and stayed perfectly comfortable. Took a TON of pictures, this slide show is what I edited things down to. HINT: Hit F11 to view it full screen and you'll be able to see the comments.

Wow! We've got snow, but nothing like that!!!

More detail on this weekend's deaths The interesting thing is that this snowboarder died off T-Bar 2 (not that long!) just like the other one.

I think the best idea is go with someone who knows the place or meet up with someone there like that, because it'll take you a week to find things on your own. Plus, I don't know about you, but the first day after traveling to higher ground and lugging ski equipment, I'm pretty knocked out. Maybe the second day I'm ready to go and hit everything, but I know personally the first day I'd be just sort of testing the place out and getting the lay of the land for the rest of the trip.

Seems like an EXCELLENT price for Jackson. I tried figuring out what it would be to come here out of Philly and couldn't do better than $870 for the same thing.