- Resort or Ski Area
- Beaver Creek & Vail
- Date
- Dec 21, 2025
- Snow Conditions
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- Packed Powder
- Slush or Spring Snow
- Cord
- Dust on Crust
- Moguls
Well, we've had lots of good luck over the years on our Colorado Christmas/New Years ski trips so we were bound to finally get a stinker weather wise and 2025 is the year!
While Colorado is having one of its worst Decembers of all time, as you can see from above, Vermont is having one of it's best ever. If I could have stayed in the Northeast instead over the holidays we would have but unfortunately I got locked into our hotels so we'll make the best of it.
We skied Beaver Creek the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd and it was pretty much the same each day. 50 degrees, sunny, and crowded. They said 13 trails were open but it was really only 2. You'd take the Centennial lift up, ski Red Tail, ride the Birds of Prey Lift back up, then ski down Gold Dust to the base, rinse and repeat. I did that loop about 10 times over the last three days spending about 3.5 hours total out on the mountain. I'll say that those groomers were pretty good considering all the traffic on them....
Gold Dust did have a nice ungroomed mogul set-up so we got to brush up on some nice ice coast style moguls each day...
Very little snow is supposed to arrive between now and the end of the year so we will see how this goes!
While Colorado is having one of its worst Decembers of all time, as you can see from above, Vermont is having one of it's best ever. If I could have stayed in the Northeast instead over the holidays we would have but unfortunately I got locked into our hotels so we'll make the best of it.
We skied Beaver Creek the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd and it was pretty much the same each day. 50 degrees, sunny, and crowded. They said 13 trails were open but it was really only 2. You'd take the Centennial lift up, ski Red Tail, ride the Birds of Prey Lift back up, then ski down Gold Dust to the base, rinse and repeat. I did that loop about 10 times over the last three days spending about 3.5 hours total out on the mountain. I'll say that those groomers were pretty good considering all the traffic on them....
Gold Dust did have a nice ungroomed mogul set-up so we got to brush up on some nice ice coast style moguls each day...
Very little snow is supposed to arrive between now and the end of the year so we will see how this goes!
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