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The spectacular Northern Lights seen from Alyeska Resort. | Photo: thekenai.wordpress.com Every Sunday from January 4 to March 8 of this season, kids in grades K-12 who qualified for the honor roll could earn a $5 lift ticket at Alyeska Resort, Alaska. Due to the great response, the resort has now announced that it will…

Andermatt was bought by Vail Resorts in 2022. | Image: Andermatt High in the heart of the Swiss Alps, Andermatt has quietly transformed from a sleepy military town into Europe’s fastest growing ski resorts. Andermatt’s rise hasn’t happened by accident. The resort underwent a massive redevelopment over the past decade, culminating in its acquisition by…

Park City Mountain Resort, UT, last week. The resort closed this weekend. | Photo: Facebook Park City Mountain in Utah officially wrapped up its season on Sunday, April 5, after a disappointing season marked by unusually high temperatures and low snow totals. The United States’ largest resort had hoped to make it to mid-April, but…

Mt. Baker, WA, was one of the Snowiest Ski Resorts in North America 2025-26 | Photo: Mt. Baker Facebook For most of North America, the 2025-26 ski season will be one to forget. Snowpack was well below average across much of the western United States, and even Colorado and Utah had their worst years ever…

A young snowmobiler was tragically killed in an avalanche in Greenland. | Stock Image A 17-year-old boy died Saturday after an avalanche struck a group of snowmobilers near Nuuk, Greenland, less than two weeks after a separate avalanche in the same area left two backcountry skiers buried up to 16 feet deep, local police are…

Credit: WeatherBell A wet Tuesday into Wednesday storm brings the only meaningful snowfall of the next several days across Japan, with the cleanest reset in Hokkaido and the best upper mountain returns in central Honshu. Confidence is highest from Tuesday afternoon through late Wednesday, when timing is well aligned across the guidance even though totals…

2025-26 will go down as the worst snow year ever recorded in both Colorado and Utah. | Photo: Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune It’s official: Colorado and Utah have now both recorded the worst snow years in modern history, with April 1 snowpack numbers, confirming what skiers, water managers, and forecasters have been…

Transitioning for a long descent. | Credit: BP The following are some insights I’ve gained while backcountry skiing. After writing a conditions report on the Silver Couloir, Colorado, I was reminded of the first time I tried to ski it. I got horribly lost after dropping into the wrong line. The couloir we skied cliffed…

Snowpark Laax, one of the nominees for 2022 World’s Best Freestyle Resort. Picture: Snowpark Laax Instagram Page Every ski resort in the world now seems to offer terrain parks. Once the domain of a select few resorts, the emergence of twin tips in the late 90s made fun parks increasingly popular. It is great that…

Many local board shops have the hookups for buying the best snowboards. | Credit: Darkside Snowboards Facebook It is no secret that snowboarding is an expensive sport. Between gear, lift tickets, and getting to the resort, just a single day can cost hundreds of dollars. While it may seem like snowboarding simply requires spending some…