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A biz trip landed me in interior Alaska for a week...with a Sunday to burn and some previous research I did when I found out I may be heading to AK...I made sure to pack my ski boots. Interior AK is not known for the usual huge mountain ranges you may think of when you hear Alaska...though they...

Started this trip out with 3 days in Paris, then got a one way rental car to head to the Chamonix Valley (and fly out of Geneva). 6 hour drive from Paris to Chamonix was nice, mostly countryside with some small villages seen set on hillsides. Once you pass Geneva (and pay mucho $$$ for tolls!)...

Decided to chase the storm with my dad (Jon951), for what might be the closing weekend of our 2017 ski season. With the weather looking like the last real winter weekend, and a 12"+ forecast for Friday into Saturday, we knew we couldn't pass up the opportunity. We were going to originally take...

Friday was the last ski day of the trip before heading to Denver for a night out and a flight on Saturday. The snow forecast for A-basin wasn't looking like anything crazy...but starting out the week with springlike weather was making half a foot sound pretty deep. Woke up to cloudy skies and...

Thursday was supposed to be an 'off' day, but the forecast was calling for snow, so I was trying to figure out a way to ski somehow. Our plan included heading out of Aspen Wednesday night down to Glenwood Springs, to save some money on the lodging and start working our way back towards the...

Wednesday was another warmer day, sun out. We headed over to Aspen Highlands via the free bus from Snowmass. The free bus system they have in town is pretty seamless, worked great. Again thinking it might be crowded, we got up pretty early and caught a bus around 8, lifts spun at 9. Got...

As many of you may have heard from my other post looking for CO advice, my wife and I headed out for presidents week (yeh, I know, crowds, but she's a teacher so I'm stuck! (but I was wrong about crowds). This would be her first western ski experience, certainly not a first for me. However...