Your 2025-26 Ski Season Thread

[Hastur]

1. 12/5 - Stratton - solid corduroy and upper standard and liftline open on natural. Solid opener
2, 12/6 - Killington - full day at K. Suprisingly good naturals. Ended the day with hippie pow laps at RH.
3. 12/7 - Stratton - 7:45 to 10 early up for Ikoners. 10 laps and then got the fuck out when the masses came online.

4. 12/17 - Stratton - midweek days are so much better at Stratton. Natural snow trails hanging in there. Great early season day
5. 12/18 - Sugarbush LP- warm day Pre rain Storm. spent most of the day at castle rock. Some nice natural snow still there. My top early season day for sure. Boney entrance to paradise led way to much better snow on the lower trails.

 

[JimG.]

1) Killington 11/18/25
2) Killington 11/19
3) Belleayre 11/21
4) Belleayre 11/28
5) Belleayre 11/30
6) Belleayre 12/5
7) Belleayre 12/7
8) Belleayre 12/10
9) Belleayre 12/12
10) Belleayre 12/16
11) Killington 12/21
12) Killington 12/22
13) Killington 12/23

Good 3 days of skiing even after the rain. Snowmaking trails in great shape and naturals had skiable coverage. New Superstar lift is very nice. I thought the best skiing was on the Skye peak side of the resort. Lots of snowmaking going on over at Snowdon in addition to many skiers.

 

[4aprice]

1. 11/27 Winter Park Co
2. 11/28 Ski Granby Ranch Co
3. 12/07 Camelback Pa

Ski season interrupted had to go to Florida for business for the 12 thru the 17 th. Now back north.

4 12/23 Shawnee Mt Pa
5 12/24 Blue Mt Pa
6 12/26 Camelback Pa

 

[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 2" 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)

 

[JimG.]

1) Killington 11/18/25
2) Killington 11/19
3) Belleayre 11/21
4) Belleayre 11/28
5) Belleayre 11/30
6) Belleayre 12/5
7) Belleayre 12/7
8) Belleayre 12/10
9) Belleayre 12/12
10) Belleayre 12/16
11) Killington 12/21
12) Killington 12/22
13) Killington 12/23
14) Belleayre 12/28

Holy crap Belle was a shitshow today. 13" from the storm Friday night got everyone motivated to come out and ski. HSQ quad being down certainly didn't help. Lines were ridiculous.

Yet despite that I skied from 9:15-3 and the conditions were very nice. Good packed powder everywhere and good bumps on several trails.

 

[deadheadskier]

Black 11/28
Cannon 11/30
Gunstock 12/6
Gunstock 12/7
Gunstock 12/14
Stowe 12/18
Gunstock 12/20
Gunstock 12/21
Gunstock 12/26
Pats 12/28

 

[Smellytele]

Black 11/28
Cannon 11/30
Gunstock 12/6
Gunstock 12/7
Gunstock 12/14
Stowe 12/18
Gunstock 12/20
Gunstock 12/21
Gunstock 12/26
Pats 12/28

Looked pretty busy at pats yesterday when I stopped by with the wife to pick up our uphill passes. The valley lodge had lunch on tap so we each grabbed one while waiting in line for our passes.

 

[LoafSkier19]

1. Nov. 14, 2025 Stowe (pre-season)
2. Nov. 21, 2025 Stowe
3. Nov. 26, 2025 Sunday River
4. Dec. 05, 2025 Loon Mtn
5. Dec. 07, 2025 Waterville Valley
6. Dec. 14, 2025 Jay Peak
7. Dec. 15, 2025 Stowe

8. Dec. 27, 2025 Black Mtn NH

Holiday commitments are done and back to skiing. Black was a lot of fun Saturday. Full parking lot but the place never felt too busy. They are blowing snow everywhere, from the J-bar area to even the cliffs on Upper Galloping Goose, so more terrain should be opening very soon.

 

[deadheadskier]

Looked pretty busy at pats yesterday when I stopped by with the wife to pick up our uphill passes. The valley lodge had lunch on tap so we each grabbed one while waiting in line for our passes.

Definitely on the busier side, but conditions were pretty good. We actually ate lunch in Valley ourselves

 

[Zand]

Tally through December:

1. Stowe 11/23 - 10.6k
2. Stowe 11/24 - 25.8k

3. Mt Snow 12/9 - 21.8k

Kind of a shitty day on the cold windy hardpack, but enough to get the burn going in the legs.

4. Okemo 12/16 - 20.9k

Sneaky good day with quite a few trails open on thin but soft natural. Early season soft and thin days are always really fun to me.


Wanted one or two more in December but between work being insane and Christmas commitments it wasn't meant to be. Now my boss is on vacation for 2 weeks so I'm still so stuck working 6 days a week until mid January. We'll see if it's worth getting out anywhere on New Year's Day or next Sunday.

Will be nice to finally get this season fully rolling the weekend of Jan 11th.

 

[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 2" 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).