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snowball wrote:
I arrived in Jackson Hole a few days after new snow, but much of the front was wind crust. I got to the top of the tram with my friends and walked through the first gate. Powder and not a single track!!! It would have been skied out in Europe.

Generalise much? We used to say a similar thing when we lived in Engelberg, that much of the terrain would have good powder snow all day whereas it would have all been tracked out in Chamonix. And there are parts of the PdS around here, particularly on the Super Châtel/Chalet Neuf side, that remain good for a long time, with most of the keen off-piste skiers sticking to the higher areas above Avoriaz.

The point being that it's local custom and practice that defines the areas that get tracked out early, not simply the part of the world. Over the ten years we were in Engelberg it changed a lot, with many, many more Scandi skiers on scene, such that the 'remaining untracked for ages' areas became more limited and away from the 'big' runs they tended to do, like the Laub and Galtiberg.
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@Chaletbeauroc, yes, fair enough. But even places like the Haute Maurienne which didn't attract off piste skiers at all 20 years ago and were very slow to get tracked, are becoming more popular and the guide has to go further afield. The point in Jackson hole was it was the first gate out of the tram so it struck me. Admittedly my experience in the USA is limited.
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