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Vedran Pavlek has been arrested. | Image: FIS Ski A scandal has rocked the Croatian ski world following reports that Vedran Pavlek, the longtime director of the Croatian national alpine team, has been arrested as part of a sweeping corruption investigation involving the Croatian Ski Association. According to multiple media outlets, including Austria’s ORF and…

Conditions at Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe are great after a late season snowstorm. | Image: courtesy of Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe Starting today, April 6, through the end of the season, Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe, Nevada, is offering discounted lift tickets to season pass holders from other resorts. With presentation of a 2025-26 season pass…

The avalanche site in the Hemsedal area. | Image: Geir Vistung A deadly avalanche in Norway’s Hemsedal ski area claimed the lives of two backcountry skiers on Easter Monday.  Related: Ski on Sugar Cane This Summer at This Swedish Resort At 11:10 a.m. on Monday, April 6, an avalanche swept through a backcountry zone near…

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…