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Not a surprise . . . my primary ski buddy who lives close enough to drive to Colorado in a few hours or Utah in a day has Epic, Ikon, and the MC. I've often had Ikon and the MC since both were available. I know people who live close enough to NY and New England skiing to justify having Indy...

After thinking about when snowmaking first became more widespread in Colorado and Utah, I wondered about Whiteface. I knew snowmaking was important for the 1980 Winter Olympics. That season Whiteface had a very unusual low snow season. Turns out snowmaking was first used at Whiteface in the...

Aha! You are correct for Colorado for sure. The number of acres with snowmaking doubled by the start of the 1981-82 season. According to OnTheSnow, Sun Valley has snowmaking on 645 acres now. Didn't look up any other resort. October 1981...

Correct, Wolf Creek is completely independent and doesn't have any type of pass agreement with another ski area. Ticket prices are around $100 for Adults (13-64), even for busy Peak days. I made the comment to tease because @jamesdeluxe mentioned the map could be good for people planning a...

Thanks for responding. I didn't start skiing Alta regularly until 2008. Before that was a few days in March 1970 and a day in January 1981 or 1982. Always noticed the covered snowguns but didn't gave them much thought during annual April stays at Alta Lodge starting in 2010. Makes sense. I...

Did there used to be general articles about snowmaking in Utah, Colorado, or Tahoe? Meaning before 2018 or so. Or was that a function of increased marketing by destination resorts about their snowmaking capabilities? Presumably those resorts wanted to convince people that planning an early...

Since anyone with an ID can get a lift ticket at any Indy pass, does it really matter? That's always been the case. What's different for 2025-26 is that there was a fall sales period that lasted more than a few days. The office staff is only a few people. An Indy pass is simply a convenient...

Thanks, but I don't need to deal with Reddit . . . have more than enough online timesinks related to skiing. ;) When Indy came on the scene, I sent comments to OpenSnow in the fall a few times about missing locations. It was very hard to keep up with additions. Maintaining a database that is...

Except when someplace is missing. The heart icon in the middle is Monarch. The maroon snowflake near Fort Garland is Cuchara. I'm headed towards Pagosa Springs in a week. Would be nice if nobody else knew why. ;)

The switch has been flipped, Premium features are no longer set for Free Preview as of Nov. 27, 2025. Plenty of places with a note about upgrading. Forecast graphs remain available at "My Location," meaning you could see them when getting ready to ski at a mountain on the OpenSnow list...

Agree that snowmaking in the Rockies and other big mountains out west generally ends by late December. I know there are snowmakers who come in for 2-3 months from the Southern Hemisphere and go home by Christmas. Do you think destination resorts will increase or decrease efforts for early...

I get that completely. Alta Lodge is always fairly empty the last week of the season regardless of snow conditions. One of the deepest powder days I've ever had at Alta was one April 15, without any lift lines to speak of. This thread is about snowmaking as it relates to climate change...

Do you have a timeframe in mind for using Indy in VT and Québec? I'll be hitting up Jay, Sutton, and Owl's Head in the first half of March.

I've stayed at Alta Lodge the last week or two of the season annually since 2010. What's been happening since Supreme was replaced has been different than with the triple. That's why I asked about when snowmaking was installed near Alf's. Except for the April with crazy wet slides, Supreme is...

One reason that a 10-day forecast from OpenSnow is plenty for me is because even if I see a 15-day forecast, I don't really put much stock in it. Although the snow totals for the next storm to hit Wolf Creek have dropped quite a bit, overall the additional snow expected by the time I start...

I started looking at the total snowfall forecast map for Colorado. As of this morning, only Wolf Creek and Purgatory have the potential to get into a purple zone of 30+ inches by Dec. 7.

Looking at the forecast for the next 10 days for Wolf Creek . . . I think my crew will have a good time the week of Dec. 7. ❄️❄️:)

I noticed new fan guns near the base of Supreme last season. Do you remember when snowmaking was first installed near Alf's? Was one reason the Supreme triple closed a week before other lifts was because the run out didn't have a base quite deep enough by mid-April? Most of my skiing at Alta...

That's where small southeast resorts can be impressive. After Massanutten built a 2-mile long water pipe from the valley to increase water availability, added more pumping capacity, and cut new upper mountain trails, it's common for there to be 100+ snowguns on at the same time for 36-hour to...

I don't use OpenSnow for skiing in NC/VA/WV. Between knowing the micro-climates well and SkiSoutheast reporting there is no need. As for trips to big mountains out west, I follow my destinations for curiosity only. Sometimes I follow a destination because I know someone who has plans to head...