Your 2025-26 Ski Season Thread

[thetrailboss]

27. Feb. 26, 2026 Pats Peak
Fun late afternoon skiing on the way up to No. VT/Canada. Always enjoy lapping the steeper trails from the Vortex lift. Snow was excellent along the edges of the trails.

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28. Feb. 27, 2026 Mont Sutton

Sutton was blacked out this weekend so decided our first day would be there. Absolute gem of a mountain. Trails are full of character with trees scattered about on what seemed like most trails. The actual glades were great too!
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29. Feb. 28, 2026 Lyndon Outing Club

Original plan was to ski Burke. However the summit lift was on wind hold with no real indication if the winds would die down. We took it as a sign to go do other things. Grabbed some coffee and went for a drive around Lake Willoughby. Very cool area!
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On our way back towards Lyndonville, Burke was still dealing with wind so we took the opportunity to patron Lyndon Outing Club for the afternoon. What a great little mountain! Snow was sticky but everything was open. Was pleasantly surprised with the trails skiers left of the TBar!

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I'd like to check out the outing club at night someday. A local at Burke this week was talking about how fun it is to ride the T Bar through the dark as they don't illuminate the track.

The LOC was where I did most of my skiing growing up when there was snow. Great place. Great terrain. Really fun place and completely run by volunteers. And they used to have some limited lighting on the T-Bar line when I last skied there. Must be they have not replaced the bulbs.

 

[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)

 

[deadheadskier]

Fuck, you’re racking up the days for weekend skier dad status.

Helps to have a son who is equally as nutty about the sport as I. Daughter likes it too, but is fine missing a day on a weekend. But my son hates missing days