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 ...

Storm Skiing 10/22/2026: Vail Pushes Back on Proxy Fight + Jackson Hogen on Selecting Ski Gear in the Digital Age ...

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

Stuart Winchester: Incredible. All right, Jason. Well, I’m going to come test that theory hopefully this winter. If not, I’ll make it out at some point and hope to take a couple turns with you. So ...

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 ...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored by Mountain Gazette - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. It’s a map dot perched improbably in the nation’s southwest pocket, in ...

Average annual snowfall: 120 inches per On The Snow; Vail claims 200. Trail count: 121 (30% advanced, 37% intermediate, 33% beginner) + 6 terrain parks Lift count: 20 (2 six-packs, 4 high-speed quads, ...

Imagine if the statistical bureaus of nations operated like ski areas - the countries just threw around numbers with no basis in measurable reality. China could say it was bigger than Russia, U.S.

Our world has not one map, but many. Nature drew its own with waterways and mountain ranges and ecosystems and tectonic plates. We drew our maps on top of these, to track our roads and borders and ...

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, ...