Thinking of staying at the ultimate luxury ski lodge? There’s a lot of competition, but The Hotel de Charme Les Airelles in Courcheval France is perhaps the ultimate in price anyway. Much Googling failed to turn up a bonafide room rate card, so perhaps this is a place where if you have to ask you [...]

Winter isn’t done with us yet. The powder keeps falling here in the Tetons. Yesterday the mountains received another 16″ new snow and more is predicted for today and tonight.
So how did this winter turn out for  powder skiers? Pretty good, I’d say- especially good if you ski Alta and Snowbird! Alta is reporting 676″ [...]

With my apologies to Paul Krugman for the low level of wonkishness this post will provide, I thought I’d provide one of his warnings in the headline.
When I say skier behavior to my friends they immediately think of liftline misbehavior, reckless actions on the slopes and foolishness in the bar. What does that say about [...]

Earlier this month I blogged about the growing trend of ski resorts creating expensive, exclusive  private membership clubs to coddle (and profit handsomely from) the wealthy.  I groused about these clubs because the resorts give these members special privileges to get on the ski lifts before the rest of us. Just yesterday I overheard a [...]

Lots of skiers and nonskiers have gotten a chuckle from the now famous photograph of a skier at Vail dangling upside down, with his pants down, from a chairlift, a predicament which resulted form the chair seat not being down when he was loaded onto the lift. Happily, he was rescued after a few minutes [...]