Distantly related but still an outdoors activity: Anybody here ski?

**SlowPokePete** · 12-30-2024

Catamount last Friday as day turns to night....

I'll have at least 10 ski days before the clock strikes 2025.

December 27, 2024 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

December 27, 2024 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

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**72gmc** · 12-30-2024

Good for you, Pete. The classic Cascades early season weather (overnight snow followed by day rain) may be fading at last. I won’t get up there until after the first but it’s looking a lot better this week.

**htwoopup** · 12-31-2024

We spent the 10 days before Christmas preparing the house and food and a house down the street we rented for the arrival of her family from Ottawa and Santa Monica and mine from NYC. Then there was shuttling to and fro down to Montreal to pick folks up. But no worries, it’s Canada.

There will be plenty of skiing after they all leave.

So, we didn’t get to ski until this past Sunday the 29th.

But it was monsooning rain and 40 degrees. And Monday the same. And today just rain and 36.

Today we went to the local hill to see what was going on.

https://imgur.com/gallery/melting-AtvdNie

Guess we will drive back to the southern country.

**SlowPokePete** · 01-02-2025

Belleayre was pretty good today.

Probably going there again tomorrow, and we're about to enter a stretch of sub-freezing temps (even in the daytime) that should allow for significant snowmaking.

January 2, 2025 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

January 2, 2025 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

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**Mabouya** · 01-02-2025

In St Louis the NWS is predicting around 10" of snow on Sunday & Sunday night, followed by highs in the low to mid 20's for around a week.

I'm guessing that the handful of skiers we have in the area are rejoicing and planning to take Monday off.

Hidden Valley, in the far western suburbs of St Louis. vvvvv (old image from their web site)

**SlowPokePete** · 03-14-2025

Ski season update.

Today I skied my 50th day of the season.

I've been at Catamount a lot, but have also skied at Butternut, Belleayre, Gore, Whiteface, Berkshire East, Bousquet, and Killington.

I've improved a lot, and headed up to Gore Mountain today to grab my 50th ski day.

The first time I ever skied was about 50 years ago.

I was a Boy Scout in Port Chester, NY Troop 11, and very much wanted to ski.

We took a trip to Gore Mountain, leaving in the dark, in a snowstorm, on a Friday night for the weekend.

My Uncle Paul was Assistant Scoutmaster, and myself and three other kids rode up to North Creek, NY, in his 2WD, Ford F-150. Three on the tree, Cap on the bed with two plywood bunks. Two kids rode in the cab with him, two in the back. He pulled over every hour or so to swap the warm kids in the cab with the frozen ones in the back. It was snowing like crazy and was probably a four and a half hour trip if the weather was good.

Ironically, Gore Mountain commenced skiing in 1964, the year I was born.

These are the things that memories are made of.

New equipment ... two pairs of Stöckli's...Montero AR's, and Stormrider 95's.

Anyway, fifty years later I decided Gore would be the place I would ski my 50th day of the season.

I skied two double black diamonds for the first time..."The Rumor," and "Lies."

I skied them each multiple times..

I'll go back to Bousquet tomorrow morning for a few hours, start up on bicycle rides again this week (it is in the 60's, after all), and maybe hit Belleayre and/or Gore this coming Thursday and Friday.

After that, maybe I'll drop my skis off for a final tune before putting them away for the season.

This might be the first Winter in my entire life that I'm not quite ready for it to end.

Here's some pics from today....

March 14, 2025 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

March 14, 2025 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

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**j44ke** · 03-14-2025

Hey Pete - congrats! My nephew says hi. He’s training to be a welder. Seems to like it. But I bet he’d rather ski.

**Saab2000** · 03-14-2025

I haven’t skied in a decade I think. My equipment is all in Switzerland and the season there is done. If I actually quit working this year, which is my goal, I’d hope to get over there to give it a go again. But just lightly. I’m still only a mediocre skier but enjoy being at the top of the world for lunch!

**72gmc** · 03-14-2025

I’m not going to get many days this year, but I did get the chance to go up with a couple of friends for the first time in years. I’ve also had good luck to go up right after the snow storms, and before the rain storms. Not a great snow year, but a good ski year.

**holliscx** · 03-24-2025

We skied 3 Valleys in France this year. There are various bases and the Tour has finished at a couple of them. This year in fact the Tour is finishing at Courchevel. We looked up the last stage winner (Felix Gall) on the drive home

I want to go back next year but to a different resort in the same general area (Alps). Our drive to the big resort in Spain is 4 hours and it's 7 to France so I'd just as soon go there although it's more complicated with our dog

I learned to ski at Stowe and Loon Mountain. If you can ski skinny icy slopes you can ski anything in the world. Man oh man is Niseko an upgrade though in every way. I'm fortunate to have been to Niseko twice. As good as the pow-pow is the slopeside ramen might be even better

**SlowPokePete** · 4 Weeks Ago

Spent day 54 at Belleayre and did 20 runs in soft snow.

My legs were toast.

Skied the last 5 or 6 runs with an old friend Luke, super strong rider who is a member of this forum, although seldom seen around here anymore. He's since finished his PhD, gotten married, and has an almost one year old son.

Day 55 was at Jiminy Peak, a mountain I haven't been to in over 30 years.

March 30, 2025 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

March 30, 2025 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

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**ides1056** · 4 Weeks Ago

I spent three days walking with a lovely grandmother from Nagano who had to return home when we reached Sukumo. She emailed the next day: snow was falling yet again.

**TRuth** · 4 Weeks Ago

I don't know how I missed this thread.

Skiing is my favorite activity. With a young kid it's been hard to do much over the last couple seasons. I was very fortunate to get to interior British Columbia for a week of backcountry skiing and a helicopter-in hut with friends.

**zachateseverything** · 4 Weeks Ago

My downhill season ended two weeks ago when the onset of 70 deg temps killed our local ski hill. Kind of a light season for me. I got a week in out in Park City, ten days at my local mid-west hill, and a weekend at Holiday Valley.

I'm already thinking about where I want to go next year. The last couple years I picked a place where my wife could ski and then she didn't. Next season I'm thinking either Telluride or Jackson Hole. or maybe splurging and doing either a weeklong instructor lead camp or a backcountry trip.

**SlowPokePete** · 3 Weeks Ago

So Saturday was Ski Day 56 for the season...Gore Mountain.

Started raining around 11 am.

Poached a couple of closed trails with Richard, who I met on the gondola. He works at Gore, but also works for Revolution Rail Co. ( https://www.revrail.com/new-york-railbiking ) , a company that makes "bikes" for riding on railroad tracks. I struck up a conversation with him by complimenting the Steal Your Face artwork handpainted on the top of his ski helmet. He had painted it himself years ago. He told me the trench coat was a last minute grab because of the rain. He wore two different brands of worn out mittens and mentioned that one was keeping his hand drier than the other.

He was a very good skier.

April 6, 2025 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

April 6, 2025 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

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**j44ke** · 3 Weeks Ago

That guy in the gondola is working the "German Tank Commander on Snow" look pretty strongly.

**SlowPokePete** · 3 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by j44ke

That guy in the gondola is working the "German Tank Commander on Snow" look pretty strongly.

He was quite a character.

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**vertical_doug** · 2 Weeks Ago

They officially opened the Tateyama - Kurobe Alpine route. This year with the heavy snows, the depth is 16m.

The record is 1981 when it was 23m. I know it is just not me when I think we get less snow each year in Japan.

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