Your 2025-26 Ski Season Thread

[drjeff]

At 42 currently.

If Mount Snow stays open through mid April as they're future ticket sales options indicates they're planning on as of now, with the weekends between now and then and taking the 1st full week of April off to ski, I should get 60.

Will admit that I had a couple of potential days that I passed on earlier this season because the weather was just too ugly that day to make me even want to do a 1 and done type day.....

 

[jimk]

17 Mar 2026, day 46, Happy St. Paddy's Day from Snowbird, UT:

Driving to Canada in a couple days. We have a big heat wave coming to UT and I think I'll be driving through rain in the northern Rockies. Hopefully, it will be snow in Banff and beyond. I might go as far as Marmot? This trip was planned 10 months ago. Going to ski Big Sky on the way back, but things could be real thin by then? Not sure if I'll be able to post here until I return, but I'll try to take some photos to share later.

 

[skimagic]

Thunder Ridge 3.17 ,
ski area #97

 

[LuckyStrike]

Love the outfit Jim. Great pic.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

i dunno what to do this weekend. looks like maybe a few elevation dependent inches friday night>saturday morning. maybe another white knuckle drive up from rutland at 6:30 AM? i dont love burning my remaining K days in march. i have 3 left. i guess i could do saturday k, then go elsewhere next weekend, then do bear mountain mogul challenge april4, save my last k day for late april/early may supe session? looks like stratton may be south of the rain/snow line friday night. i dont think its worth going further north. sunday looks kinda shitty so i think its day trip to k.

 

[Zand]

NWS and snow-forecast both bullish on tomorrow's system AND the Sunday night system north of 89. Looks increasingly likely that tomorrow eclipses 6" and Sunday over a foot on the mountaintops. Plus warm during the day so ride up mostly not too bad.

Think I need to do some kind of Bolton/Stowe/Jay play.

 

[snoseek]

NWS and snow-forecast both bullish on tomorrow's system AND the Sunday night system north of 89. Looks increasingly likely that tomorrow eclipses 6" and Sunday over a foot on the mountaintops. Plus warm during the day so ride up mostly not too bad.

Think I need to do some kind of Bolton/Stowe/Jay play.

I picked one more 4 day weekend next week starting monday. Probably cannon or burke then straight to jay/stowe for the rest. Hope this works out but either way im skiing

 

[machski]

1. 1/2/26 SR
2. 1/3 SR
3. 1/4 SR
4. 1/18 SR
5. 1/19 SR
6. 1/22 Loon
7. 1/26 SR
8. 1/27 SR
9. 1/29 Tenney
10. 1/31 SR
11. 2/1 SR
12. 2/12 Loon
13. 2/14 BMOM
14. 2/15 Mt. Abram
15. 2/18 Pat's Peak
16. 2/21 BMOM
17. 2/23 SR (Just Sundance teaching niece and nephew)
18. 2/25 SR
19. 2/26 Saddleback
20. 2/27 Mt. Abram
21. 2/28 SR
22. 3/3 Cannon
23. 3/14 SR
24. 3/15 SR
25. 3/19 Black Mountain NH. Snowmaking going all day long. I think the Chute/Maple Slalom/Lower Jackson Standard route for their late season run. Double barreling it with guns skier's left with hose dragged from the neighboring trail joining the regular skier's right gun line. Also at the base all the way over to the Double. Good effort and a fun day on the other stuff still open.

 

[thetrailboss]

1. December 2, 2025: Brighton (Opening Day Turns off of Majestic)
2. December 7, 2025: Alta (Opening Day but lacking the Greatest Snow on Earth)
3. December 8, 2025: Snowbird (thin cover but glad to be skiing!)
4. December 9, 2025: Brighton (afternoon turns on Crest)
5. December 11, 2025: Alta (more early season turns)
6. December 12, 2025: Snowbird (first Tram day)
7. December 13, 2025: Alta (Sugarloaf Opens!)
8. December 14, 2025: Snowbird (more early season skiing to get the legs in shape).
9. December 27, 2025: Burke (Homecoming with 3" of fresh pow on top of grooming; East Bowl, Powderhorn, and the other favs!)
10. December 28, 2025: Burke (Wilderness, McHarg's, East Bowl redux, and more cold laps)
11. December 30, 2025: Burke Mountain (COLD turns on the lower mountain in the AM and upper mountain in the PM with lots of lodge warm-ups).
12. December 31, 2025: Burke Mountain (my nephew's first day on skis!)
13. January 4, 2026: Alta (Back in Utah in time for the beginning of a big storm cycle--powder day!)
14. January 5, 2026: Alta (monster powder day but lots of delays and crowds)
15. January 9, 2026: Snowbird (amazing soft turns in Upper Gad Valley)
16. January 11, 2026: Alta/Snowbird (First day on the Mavericks and first Mineral Basin day)
17. January 18, 2026: Alta/Snowbird (mainly a groomer day, but hit Hoop's and Bookmark to mix it up)
18. January 19, 2026: Brighton (First Night Skiing of 2026. Wren Hollow, but otherwise sticking to the groomers)
19. January 22, 2026: Snowbird (groomer morning and 20k vertical to boot)
20. January 25, 2026: Alta/Snowbird (A cold, windy day not for man nor beast)
21. February 1, 2026: Alta/Snowbird (another warm, sunny groomer day; we need snow badly).
22. February 2, 2026: Snowbird (Morning laps on firm conditions. Met Guru Dave Powers (finally after 15 years). Earned my "custom sticker". )
23. February 8, 2026: Alta/Snowbird: another sunny groomer day although the snow is pretty beat up.
24. February 13, 2026: Alta/Snowbird (NEW snow made for an AWESOME way to kick off the holiday weekend! Tiger Tail to Ted's Bowl and Bookmark)
25. February 15, 2026: Brighton (late afternoon turns on Great Western and apres with the wife).
26. February 16, 2026: Alta/Bird: Windy ski day; earned my Snowbird bounty (barely) as most of SB was closed.
27. February 17, 2026: Brighton: night riding on a windy night before the storm.
28. February 22, 2026: Alta (hitting the natural stuff on High T and the Backside FINALLY!)
29. February 23, 2026: Brighton (night riding with some friends).
30. February 27, 2026: Alta/Snowbird (spring skiing in February?)
31. March 8, 2026: Alta (breaking in new skis on the High Traverse)
32. March 10, 2026: Alta/Snowbird (nice turns mainly at Snowbird on Little Cloud and Mineral Basin)
33. March 12, 2026: Middlebury Snow Bowl (Born from Ice! Skiing with my daughter on soft turns that became increasingly firmer and harder each run)
34. March 13, 2026: Burke Mountain Redux (skiing with family and my nephew on SURPRISINGLY soft and great conditions!)
35. March 14, 2026: Burke Mountain (east coast powder day; Head Demo day--I demoed the Kore 88TI in 177cm and my daughter demoed the Rebel ESL skis and loved them!)

36. March 20, 2026: Alta/Snowbird (Summer Skiing in March and Subaru Winterfest Day)

 

[BenedictGomez]

1) Park City (Canyons) - 1/02 holy hell it's terrible, but kid's clinics start this weekend & wanted to get the little a day on snow prior
2) Park City (Canyons) - 1/03 the first legitimate east coast conditions I've experienced in Utah. Brought back memories
3) Park City (Canyons) - 1/09 took 4 after school runs with the wife & little one on blue groomers. Conditions better after the recent snow, still not great.
4) Park City (Canyons) - 1/10 bizarrely empty! Conditions much improved. Powder in the trees. Lord, it feels like ski season finally.
5) Park City (Park City) - 1/17 MLK Friday & empty! Icy moguls, steep groomers icy, groomed beginner & intermediate terrain was okay.
6) Park City (Park City) - 1/23 Took the little one up McConkey's for the first time for some Georgeanna & Powder Monkey fun. Snow's good (not sure how).
7) Park City (Canyons) - 1/24 Empty. Even more bizarrely so than MLK weekend. Literally the only person on multiple trails. Ski on all day. On SATURDAY!
8) Park City (Canyons) - 1/31 Empty. Another empty Saturday of ski-on lifts. Groomer only. Decent considering no snow. Anything steep is east coast though.
9) Park City (Canyons) - 2/07 Empty. Another empty Saturday of ski-on lift. Groomer only. Decent considering no snow. Furrys. Lots of Furrys.
10) Park City (Canyons) - 2/13 After school Saddleback laps with the wife & little one. Six inches fell, but sadly I felt no difference. We need MUCH more.
11) Park City (Canyons) - 2/20 What is this white stuff?!?! Still empty. Just a few hours of after school laps with the wife & little one.
12) Park City (Canyons) - 2/21 Busiest day of the year, snow brings crowds. Caught in a slide on 9990 (RP Shoots). Bluebird day. Lost a ski. But I'm okay!
13) Park City (Canyons) - 2/27 Really bad conditions. Lost a TON of snow in the last 6 days. At this point, hoping we can make it to April. NEED SNOW.
14) Park City (Canyons) - 2/28 SUCKS! (Worst conditions I've seen since I moved to Utah)
15) Park City (Canyons) - 3/06 Afternoon groomer laps with the fam. Sadly, PC groomed anything that looked like new snow for preservation. I get it though.
16) Park City (Canyons) - 3/07 Bright sunny day. ROTD was Pipe Dream, a LONG mogul run. Both Hurricane Alley & Pinball Alley were fun too with good snow.
17) Park City (Canyons) - 3/13 Sunny slush fest with the wife and little one. I fear the end is nigh.
18) Park City (Canyons) - 3/14 Getting rough out there. Not sure how much longer Park City can stay open. Cookie Race & skiing with all the 6-7 year olds was fun though!

19) Park City (Park City) - 3/20 Probably our last day. Crazy to think I didn't make 20 days, less than when we lived in the east & tripped Vermont at 13 hour roundtrips. But it really sucked this season to be fair. Today was slush everywhere, it was 75 degrees at 8,500 feet & snow was eroding fast. But it was fun. The problem? The Azzholes CLOSED McConkey's and Jupiter. I massively hate this ******* company.