by ISL on 3/6/17, 11:31 PM
Agreed that it's a cool idea, especially if extended to international travel. Some parts of the world are closer than we expect.
Local note: Why would a Seattleite fly from SeaTac at $562 to Vancouver in order to arrange other transport to Whistler? There are direct sub-$100 buses SEA-Whistler...
by pashabitz on 3/7/17, 1:59 AM
Sweet! Please add sorting by powder (hi to lo) combined with price (lo to hi) for an ultimate "powder per dollar" index. Thanks
by meteore on 3/7/17, 12:31 PM
I am surprised that nobody has mentioned the environmental perversity of this. Guys, wake up! There will be no snow for you or for anybody very soon if you go this route.
by nether on 3/7/17, 2:04 AM
The ranking's a bit disingenuous since precipitation totals are notoriously hard to predict. There should be a huge sigma for each value, making it impossible to guarantee that the 28" forecast at a location will exceed the 27" forecast elsewhere. Accumulations will also vary after the clouds have gone, as wind transport can shift the distribution significantly, leading to that one side of the mountain that seems to be permanently scraped off or wind crusted.
by blklane on 3/7/17, 3:16 AM
Ah thats pretty cool! I made
https://snow.watch that gives 10 day forecast snow reports via SMS.
Wanted to do a second angle on it, see you did travel which is pretty sweet. I assume those are affiliate links, wonder what % are buying flights?
by JamesChevalier on 3/6/17, 10:47 PM
This is cool! I built
https://blizzalert.com a while back which does part of this - sends an SMS with snowfall alerts for mountains that you're watching. I didn't think to match it up with flight costs.
Nice job!
by rrhyne on 3/7/17, 3:31 AM
Cool, but you could improve the user workflow. I have 2 airports tops I could leave out of here in San Diego. It doesn't help me at all that there are fares from Seattle to xxxxxxx. I recommend you ask me to enter my location and show me only relevant results.
by aaronmu on 3/7/17, 7:24 AM
Anything like this for Europe?
by griffinkelly on 3/7/17, 5:13 AM
I've been following the site a while. Great to see a new feature addition and get me coming back before we're missing the snow. Would be cool to have a comparison between train/flight/drive per ticket/extrapolated cost and time, and see what would get me there the quickest and cheapest.
Pending I can actually find an affordable fare lets see if I'll be on the mountain one last time this season.
by awareBrah on 3/7/17, 2:34 PM
Nice page. Was thinking of building something like this for my own use, but then I saw yours and it was pretty much what I wanted so that's great.
Glad to see whistler on that list! I'll be there next week if anyone wants to hit some runs, ping me
by grogenaut on 3/7/17, 3:58 AM
You have it finding flights from SEA to YVR. That's basically pointless, it's 180 miles and I have a car if I drive up. Or train.
Cool otherwise.
by lavezzi on 3/7/17, 1:04 AM
Isn't this approach going to end up being expensive all round? It doesn't factor in any of the other incidentals.
by kafkaesq on 3/7/17, 12:32 AM
An interesting arbitrage. Quite likely generalizable, too.
by kevinSuttle on 3/7/17, 2:45 AM
Literally the whitest post ever
by Kapura on 3/7/17, 12:03 AM
Ah, finally. A tool that will serve the needs of the common man. Just the other day I was talking to a bus driver at a bar and he was telling me that he wanted to be booking last-minute flights to ski at a day's notice, but that he wished there were a tool to help him out.