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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…

The new 10-person gondola is set to open in December 2027. | Credit: Mont-Sainte-Anne Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec, is about to undergo the mountain’s biggest infrastructure investment in nearly 40 years. Once seen as the largest ski resort on Canada’s East Coast, Mont-Sainte-Anne has declined in prominence over the last 30 years due to competition and aging…

Our guest today is Olivier Fremond, the head of Operations & Development at Les 3 Vallées, the world’s largest ski resort. When we say large, we’re not talking big. We’re talking absurdly massive. Les 3 Vallées spans over 600km of pistes, roughly 25,000 acres of skiable terrain, more than 160 lifts, and it connects the…

Lift infrastructure completely buried in snow at Campo Imperatore, only the roof of the Esaposto Fontari six-chair is visible. | Image: Gian Luca Museo After a largely snow-starved winter, Italy’s Apennine Mountains have been buried under a surge of late-season snowfall—bringing both relief and dangerous conditions to regions more accustomed to spring sunshine than deep…