Steep and Deep: The Snow Skiing/Boarding Thread

[Shaka]

I am heading to my condo next week down at PC. I don't know how much we will ski.

I thought you were an Eagle Mountain condo guy. Moving up in the world.

[Joe Public]

It’s been a dud of a season for us. SoCal skiing was basically nonexistent this year, with no snow until February (and minimal then) and lows in the 40s or higher and highs in the 60s and 70s at the resorts all season. We haven’t gone once, and places are already closing for the season.

I grabbed a cabin in Tahoe City back a few months ago for the kids’ spring break this week. We’re here and going up to Palisades this morning, but it’s been warm here as well, and we’re not expecting much. Not a great year for Ikon passes and season ski rentals.

How was it in Utah/Colorado/elsewhere?

[Donuthole]

It’s been a dud of a season for us. SoCal skiing was basically nonexistent this year, with no snow until February (and minimal then) and lows in the 40s or higher and highs in the 60s and 70s at the resorts all season. We haven’t gone once, and places are already closing for the season.

I grabbed a cabin in Tahoe City back a few months ago for the kids’ spring break this week. We’re here and going up to Palisades this morning, but it’s been warm here as well, and we’re not expecting much. Not a great year for Ikon passes and season ski rentals.

How was it in Utah/Colorado/elsewhere?

This year was pretty gradual and shallow, If i'm being honest. I made my annual pilgrimage to Brian Head, but it was in January, before they had any great storms. So it wasn't great. I understand it got better, but i think it still was a very down year.

[BigPiney]

This year sucked at Mammoth. I had one good day. Thinking of not getting a pass next year.

[All-American]

Worst ski season in memory.

Still better than work.

[All-American]

More complete report from Colorado.

Vail works to get Keystone up early and hold Breck open until late in the season. The snowmaking facilities at Keystone in particular are impressive. Anything connected with the artificial snowmakers had a solid base through about this week, but won’t last much longer. Anything that relied on natural snow was sketchy at best, if it opened at all.

This year, when Arapahoe Basin announced their opening date, Keystone quickly opened for a few runs the afternoon before and claimed the status of first resort to open the season, which is awesome.

We were at keystone this last week for spring break. Nobody in our group could stand to have winter gear on in the afternoons, and some wouldn’t wear them in the mornings. It was just too hot. The first run of the day was icy due to the overnight freeze. Runs from late morning to noon or so were awesome. After that, you had to find shaded or higher elevation runs or you would be skiing through mashed potatoes. Looking around at the nearly snowless peaks was just depressing. That said, the family that joined us from Utah said what we were skiing on was far superior to what they saw in the Utah resorts.

It’s an all-time bad ski season for sure. The snow never really arrived, and what did arrive didn’t stay for long.

There was still plenty of fun to be had, though. Our family is now at a stage where all four kids can do blues, and the oldest is not yet too cool to ski with her dad. It’s definitely payoff season for the years spent teaching them. I got more vertical feet in this year than in any prior year.

[All-American]

A lawsuit was filed against Vail and Altera on Monday, alleging anticompetitive conduct. They complain about a lot of stuff, but the main thrust of the claims are that Vail and Altera both tied access to smaller, "regional" resorts to access to larger, "destination" resorts. In other words, to get access to the small hills, you had to buy the Epic/Ikon pass, giving you access to the big hills.


https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gf...2020260323.pdf
https://www.reuters.com/legal/govern...es-2026-03-24/

Of all the anticompetitive conduct they could have made as the basis of the suit, this strikes me as not the most compelling. It's a curious strategy.

[Goatnapper'96]

I thought you were an Eagle Mountain condo guy. Moving up in the world.

HA! I missed this. Lets just say the vacation home in Babylon is a lot more comfortable! The EM unit is for business and the PC one is for play. As for skiing I got out 7 times and I think that is the breakeven on an Epic pass at PC. What a crappy year. My twins were laughing all winter on their missions how the winter they missed better go down as the worst.one.ever.