As Lee Canyon prepares to open the West Bowl terrain pod, MCP officials are already scoping out the tantalizing 2,000 vertical feet soaring above it ...

Nub’s Nordic map also shows a pretty cool overhead of how all the lifts match up with a topo map: ...

Dave Rathbun: So, you just have to have a good attitude and frankly, for how much time and effort is required to keep the balls in the air and keep, you know, I’ll use the football analogy. We got to ...

Everyone’s searching for skiing’s soul. I’m trying to find its brains.

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Everyone’s searching for skiing’s soul. I’m trying to find its brains.

Because Crystal is one of the under-appreciated giants of North American skiing. It has more inbounds skiable terrain than Jackson Hole and gets more snow than any ski area in Colorado. It’s not ...

I don’t know for sure how many skier visits Stratton pulls each winter, or where the ski area ranks among New England mountains for busyness. Historical data suggests a floor around 400,000 visits, ...

It doesn’t happen often, these comebacks. Ski areas die and they stay dead. Or they die and return and die again and then they’re really gone. We’re at a weird inflection point. After decades of ...