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Even during one of the worst snow years ever, the season still proved that skiing is about more than powder, with family turns, mountain time, and a love for the sport making it all worthwhile. | Photo: SnowBrains There is no real way to sugarcoat it: this was one of the worst snow years in…

The 2025-26 season will go down as the worst on record. | Photo: SnowBrains For skiers, snowboarders, and mountain towns across the West, spring arrived in the middle of winter this year, but the response is already taking shape. As resorts opened late, struggled through the holidays, and now close early after a rapid warm-up…

Winter 2025-26. | Image: AccuWeather AccuWeather saw the winter’s main split early. The West spent much of 2025-26 fighting warmth, rain, and shallow bases, while the Midwest and Northeast stacked more cold and snow. For skiers, that made AccuWeather a useful big-picture guide, even though the Pacific Northwest and northern Rockies proved trickier than its…

Connecting Winter Park to the town itself would fundamentally change Winter Park as both a ski resort and a town. | Credit: Winter Park Excavation work has begun near Winter Park Town Hall at 50 Vasquez Road, the future downtown landing zone for an aerial gondola that will connect Winter Park Resort to a rebuilt…

Valle Nevado Ski Resort is one of the best ski resorts in the southern hemisphere. | Photo: Valle Nevado Why the Southern Hemisphere Has Some of the Best Ski Resorts in the World The best ski resorts in the Southern Hemisphere offer a remarkable range of winter experiences—from the high-altitude powder bowls of the Chilean…

What is propaganda and what isn’t? | Photo: SnowBrains/Gemini Skiing has always come with a little hype. But between rising prices, gear “innovations,” and resort marketing that somehow makes boilerplate sound like blower pow, a lot of skiers and riders are getting harder to convince. So, we asked our readers: What ski propaganda are you…

Trapper’s patio time! | Photo: Banff Sunshine Banff Sunshine, Alberta, enters the heart of its spring events this weekend with one of its busiest two-day stretches of the year, combining adaptive skiing, live country music, and a community snowboard jam against a backdrop of exceptional late-season conditions. Related: SkiBig3’s Endless Winter: Where Spring Still Feels…

Breckenridge, Colorado. | Photo: Fujiphilm on Unsplash Breckenridge Bomb Threat Prompts Brief South Main Street Evacuation The Breckenridge Police Department responded to an anonymous bomb threat on South Main Street on April 6, briefly evacuating the area before officers determined there was no danger to the public, according to a social media post. Related: Man…

Credit: WeatherBell California’s main ski weather story is a weekend Sierra storm that starts warm and wind-affected on Friday, then turns colder and more productive from Friday night through Sunday. Confidence is strongest from Friday through Monday morning, when the open Sierra mountains should stack up meaningful fresh snow and the quality improves as colder…

Conditions are still excellent in Crans-Montana. | Image: Crans-Montana The lifts have stopped spinning, but emotions are still running high at Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Local Swiss skiers and business owners are angry that the Swiss resort owned and operated by U.S. conglomerate Vail Resorts ended its 2025–26 ski season on Easter Monday, despite excellent snow conditions.A…