Jim,
Sorry to hear that Sepp Kober passed.
Reading your story about your family's visit to the Homestead reminded me oa a few days my wife and I spent there for Valentines, a couple of years ago. What a place (or should I say palace?)!! As you said, the ski area is small and very limited, but was not crowded when I skied there. There is another near 1000 very-skiable vertical feet directly above the present lift top. If only... Somewhere on the slopes or ski lodge I lost one of my digital hearing aids, resulting in a neat after ski expense of over $3K to replace...ouch. I actually walked up the slope, directly under the chair, looking for the proverbial "needle in a haystack". I also closed the slopes that day as I skied down an inch at a time, traversing the slopes looking for a little brown dot in the sea of white. Lots of dots, but all were twigs in the snow placed there by the snow grooming equipment.
I must have dug a hundred twigs out of the snow! I did receive a compliment from an employee at the bottom who had watched my long (time-wise) desent..."great form" she said.
The Homestead is a marvel.
The Colonel
