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Hometown Mountain Shoutout: Perfect North Slopes, IN

From 40,000 feet, flying over southern Indiana, chances are that the white patch of snow or two that you’ll see on a clear day are Perfect North Slopes. To most outsiders, midwestern skiing is 30 second runs on hills hardly boasting 300 vertical feet. People tend to gloss over ski resorts in lesser known midwestern U.S. states, be it Missouri, Iowa, Ohio, […]

Brett Ploss | December 19, 2023

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Mammoth Mountain, CA, Report: Opening Weekend Fun

Report from opening weekend. Friday, November 10 to Sunday, November 12. Mammoth Mountain, California, opened for the season last Friday, November 10, for skiing and riding. Open daily, Mammoth is currently spinning Broadway (chair 1), Unbound (chair 6), Face Lift (chair 3), and the Panorama Gondola to the mid-station. Available terrain will expand as conditions allow. We arrived on opening […]

Conditions Report

Jeremy Thom | November 15, 2023

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Ode to the White Ribbon of Death

It’s early season and I’m thinking of the last day of last season. It was sunnier and warmer. The snow was better and there was more of it. It wasn’t this crowded either. Nor did it get dark at 3 o’clock. Not to create the impression that this isn’t fun. It’s fun alright. Skiing will always win out over not skiing. That said, it’s time for some snow and an end to this white ribbon of death as the people like to call it. It’s narrow, it’s scraped off, it’s crowded, and if you are back east there is probably a snow gun blasting every ten yards or so. It’s also all that’s open. Lap after lap. Lap… after…lap… My more […]