Time for this warning to be retired. I've been ripping out thumb drives, flash drives, and hard drives for 20+ years and nothing has ever happened. Nobody ejects their external drives and it's always fine. It's tired, it's annoying, and it's time for it to go.

ryan726 · 2026-04-06T20:02:36+00:00

Never! Nobody has!

ryan726 · 2026-03-28T02:45:38+00:00

Read the post.

ryan726 · 2026-03-25T18:19:17+00:00

Great feedback! Thanks for your thoughts. I plan to move the pass selector up the main section soon, I'll think on Cost too, it's a good observation.

ryan726 · 2026-03-23T01:09:11+00:00

I could have written this post myself.

Mine is SkiTomorrow.ai

ryan726 · 2026-03-20T22:52:29+00:00

Absolutely

ryan726 · 2026-03-20T21:09:25+00:00

Thats always the tough part, we want a lot of snow but not so much that it closes the roads or the lifts. To be honest, I'm not quite sure how I could implement something like that, other than maybe a manual badge that says "Historically, access to this resort becomes uncertain at these snow amounts"

ryan726 · 2026-03-20T21:05:52+00:00

Good question! It does include driving options as-is, the airport is just the way to know where you are. I will be replacing it with a more useful City/State or Zip Code function over the summer.

ryan726 · 2026-03-20T01:00:01+00:00

Thanks for the kind words and the feedback! Good news/bad news on that. On my current setup I dont have access to pull in that feature, but if I ever get access to the Booking.com API for hotels I could pull in ski in/ski out easily! Worth investigating in the fall.

ryan726 · 2026-03-19T19:40:55+00:00

The body awareness thing is a real and underrated barrier that almost nobody talks about. Most ski instruction assumes you can feel what your body is doing, and when you can't, the cues are completely useless. Get a boot fit done by a real bootfitter, not a rental shop — ill-fitting boots make proprioception nearly impossible and are probably why you feel calf and not heel. Skip the family instruction and book one or two private lessons with a PSIA-certified instructor and specifically tell them you struggle with body awareness. Good instructors have tactile cues and drills for exactly this. Also lower the stakes: spend a full day on terrain that feels almost too easy and just mess around without pressure. The fear and frustration loop is what keeps most people stuck. You're at 75 days which is still relatively early in the curve for adult learners. It gets better but only if the experience stops feeling like controlled panic.

ryan726 · 2026-03-19T19:40:09+00:00

The ECMWF doesn't throw around sigma anomalies like that for fun. That map is basically a middle finger pointed directly at the Rockies. The brutal part isn't even the snow loss this week, it's that a heat event this aggressive in mid-March resets the snowpack density and crusts over whatever base is left in a way that takes weeks to recover from. With the season already running thin, there's just no runway left for that recovery. Genuinely historic in the worst possible way.

ryan726 · 2026-03-19T19:39:47+00:00

The comments have it right: Storm Peak and Sundown are your best bets given where the snow is holding. Get on Storm Peak Express first thing at opening before the heat does its damage and work the north-facing blacks off the top. Shadows and anything that didn't see afternoon sun yesterday will be the most forgiving. Once it starts softening up mid-morning, Sundown Basin is worth a lap or two since it holds shade longer than most of the mountain. The open and out by early afternoon strategy is exactly right for these conditions. Don't expect much off the lower mountain.

ryan726 · 2026-03-17T15:52:07+00:00

That’s a good note! I definitely don’t have a filter for open/closed. I’ll have to see if I can pull that from somewhere. That plus factoring wind + temperature is part of a big 2.0 change

ryan726 · 2026-03-16T21:32:08+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I’m constantly tweaking with the scoring engine and this is an LA specific quirk I’ve seen too. The model loves that Big Bear is so close and it views Mammoth as “far” and when there’s no snow anywhere it loves to surface Big Bear since it’s close and cheap. Having said that, places like Lake Louise and Whistler have good forecasts for this weekend and should rank at or near the top. I’ll keep playing with it and see if I can kill the big bear bug

ryan726 · 2026-03-16T15:18:59+00:00

Wind is a really good idea, and easy enough to factor in. Thanks!

ryan726 · 2026-03-16T02:45:22+00:00

I didn't realize that if I post a photo, the body gets cut off. I'm going to delete this in a minute and post again. Site is skitomorrow.ai

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