Travel – West

My Fitness Journey Continues: Part Four

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Exercise your right to stay fit when you go on that summer trip! To all you senior winter sports aficionados out there who still have your summer escape ahead of you: Is fitness a part of your plans? It should be, and it should be easy to pull off.…
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Harriet Wallis’ Great Idea: Perhaps You Need A “Pail List”

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SeniorsSkiing.com Correspondent Harriet Wallis Has A New "Pail List" It's summer and half my friends are traveling the planet. They're checking off places on their bucket list. I get emails from exotic locations. They send photos of elephants and…
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No-Shows For Late Season Skiing?

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Many Years Ago, Alta Stayed Open Late And Guess Who Showed Up? With so many late, unexpected and unusual snowfalls this late spring, we wondered if people were still showing up.  After all, it is almost boating season.  Yet, a report last week from…
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It’s Official: Deer Valley Owns Solitude

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Changes In Uphill Capacity For 2015-16 Already Planned. As we reported last October, the deal is now done.  Deer Valley has scooped up Solitude Resort, put a new general manager in place and is announcing lots of capital improvements for next season.…
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Sierra Ski Season 2014–15: A Mixed Bag

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In a winter with the lowest snowfall in the Sierra Nevada since record-keeping began, some resorts fared well while others barely managed to open. On April 1st, it was no joke when California’s Department of Water Resources snow surveyors went to Phillips…
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Getting Fresh On The Mountain

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Deer Valley's Seafood Buffet A Wasatch Institution. Deer Valley in Park City consistently ranks at the top of SKI Magazine's polls for guest service, on-mountain food and snow grooming. As a part time instructor there for several years, I came to understand…
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The Ski Diva Heads West

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All-Women Ski Trip Brings Kindred Spirits Together Our friend and colleague, The Ski Diva, gathers a group of Diva Members for an annual ski trip to exciting places.  This year, her group went to Montana where they had a rocking good time.  Click here…
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St. Patrick’s Day Snow Art At Brighton, Utah

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Everyone enjoys trailside sculptures in annual tradition. The snow sculpture competition is an annual St. Patrick's Day event at Brighton Resort, Utah. The competition pits departments against each other in a good natured contest. During the…
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There’s Snow In Them Thar (California) Hills

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Although Snow Conditions Have Been Less Than Golden This Season, There IS Some Great Skiing To Be Had In California’s Northern Sierra Nevada. While much of the U.S. has gotten battered all winter long by massive dumps of snow and other inclement…
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Serious Stuff: There Is No Such Thing As “Side Country”

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And There Is No Such Thing As Being A Little Bit Dead. Yesterday we rode the chairlift with a bozo. Okay. Maybe he wasn't a bozo. Maybe he was just clueless. All the way up he yapped about his skiing prowess. And near the top he phoned home to give…
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Portrait Of A Weird February: East, Coldest; West, Warmest

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Here's a picture of our weather record-breaking mid-winter month. Black and White, Ying and Yang, Macy's and Gimbel's, Felix and Oscar: These opposites come to mind when we look at this picture of what happened to the weather in February, 2015.  The…
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SuperSeniorSpotlight: George Jedenoff Shreds Alta At 97

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SeniorsSkiing Honors A Legend Who's Skied Alta For 55 Years. How's the spring in your legs?  Here's George Jedenoff, a 97-year old from Oakland, CA, who has been skiing Alta, UT, since 1960.  With a lifetime season pass and a healthy lifestyle,…
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Eldora’s Front Range Gang Is A Model Senior Skier Program

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Here's An Another Area-Sponsored Program For Senior Skiers. Anyone who lives in or visits Boulder in winter has absolutely no excuse not to ski Eldora Mountain Resort, not really a resort with lodging but a simple ski area under the brow of the…
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Sound Like A Local

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Here's How To Talk The Talk. Every region has its own pronunciations, so if you take a western ski trip you might want to brush up on a few words and say them the way the local say them. Word 1: Alta. This popular ski-only resort in Utah is the granddaddy…
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Breaking News: Vail Connects Park City and Canyons

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High-Speed Gondola To Link Both Areas The recent acquisition by Vail of Park City Mountain Resort is yielding a major new development.  Vail will link Park City and Canyons Resorts together, creating the largest ski area in the US with over 7,300 acres…
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Glittering Evening At Ski Archives Fund Raiser in SLC

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Movers and Shakers honored. Twenty years ago, ski enthusiasts and visionaries realized that historic ski photos and manuscripts should be collected to assure they wouldn't be lost in dusty attics and that old albums wouldn't be tossed out. The resulting…
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Afterglow: Visual Night Skiing Poetry

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When Was The Last Time You Skied In The Dark?  We bet it wasn't like this. So far, this year’s pre-snow-season has seen at least two new dazzling ski movies hit the screens. First, we couldn’t help but notice Warren Miller’s 65th ski movie,…
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