2025-26 Season Recap

jimk

jimk

Well-known member
Ski days 2025-2026 season
Update: Got one more day on a pretty spring morning at Snowbird on 1 May 2026. Grateful for a fun and safe ski season! Hope to get after it again next year, God willing :-)
68 days, and now my season is over.

Monthly tally: Dec: 11, Jan: 11, Feb: 14, Mar: 18, Apr: 14

Areas skied:
Snowbird: 42
Solitude: 7
Big Sky: 3
Alta: 1
Brighton: 1
Brevent-Flegere* (FR): 1
Grands Montet* (FR): 1
Le Tour* (FR): 1
Vallee Blanche* (FR): 1
Mannlichen* (SZ): 1
Grindelwald-First* (SZ): 1
Panorama* (BC): 1
Sunshine (AB & BC): 2
Lake Louise (AB): 3
Marmot Basin* (AB): 2.
*first time skiing this area (8)
 
Last edited:
ChrisC said:
I thought you would get to Plattekill and/or Belleayre.
Click to expand...
I didn't have a pass product for those two so I passed on them.

I had originally planned to ski six days at Colorado non-resorts Loveland, Cooper, Sunlight, Powderhorn but due to the drought I limited it to two half days at Loveland. I had also penciled in a Vermont/southern Quebec road trip: two days at Jay Peak and one day each at Magic, Burke, Owls Head, and Sutton. Together, those would've resulted in a more respectable 22 days; however, life got in the way.

Sad to spend more time talking about the ski days that didn't happen rather than those that did!
 
I managed to get in 37 days in spite of cancelling or shortening trips due to low snow and/or unexpected major medical issues for my husband that started mid-December. Was going to use a 4-day Epic pass (bought for CB) in PA in early March but with the heat wave it wasn't worth the drive so I went home after checking out the new lift and trails at Bryce with Indy.

Monthly for 2025-26: Dec-10, Jan-6, Feb-9, Mar-2, Apr-10

Areas skied:
Wolf Creek: 10
Alta: 10, including 3 days with runs at Snowbird
Massanutten: 7 (home resort)
Taos: 5
Winter Park: 2
Copper: 1
Wintergreen: 1
Bryce: 1
 
108 Days, 4 New to me

Harvey Woods (36)
Gore (23)
North Creek Ski Bowl (21)
Siamese Ponds BC (13)
Vanderwhacker BC (4)
Plattekill (3)
Oak Mountain (2)
Woods Valley (1)
Titus (1)
Val Bialas (1)
Dynamite Hill (1)
Newcomb Ski Slope (1)

Great season for me.

Lots of new and untracked snow, hard to count exactly, hard to determine what is powder vs what is new snow. I had 17 I labeled as Pow or Powder. I also have a category I call ONS (Old New Snow). Basically untracked that fell more than a day or two ago.

Previous high was last year, 38 days.

Don't think I will ski Killington, but it is possible. OCD me does like even numbers, so I'll probably stick.

ETA: Links to TRs on NYSB
 
Last edited:
Harvey said:
OCD me does like even numbers, so I'll probably stick.
Click to expand...
I'm not even going to touch this ^^.

Is it possible to link to a favorite report for each of the ski areas/non-lift spots above (or link us to where they are on NYSB)? I bet that people here aren't familiar with most of them.
 
jamesdeluxe said:
I'm not even going to touch this ^^.
Click to expand...

You gotta admit 108 days sounds way better than 109. 🤠

jamesdeluxe said:
Is it possible to link to a favorite report for each of the ski areas/non-lift spots above (or link us to where they are on NYSB)? I bet that people here aren't familiar with most of them.
Click to expand...

This is actually a pretty cool idea. If you think anyone cares or would click on the link, I would do it.

Some of that local backcountry... the guys I skied with are funny about it. If I want to keep skiing with them, I probably can't write about it with my normal exuberance.
 
Harvey said:
If you think anyone cares or would click on the link, I would do it.
Click to expand...
I like the Oak Mountain piece and there are more pix in the report.

This is nuts how your friend is basically parallel to the snow, just like @snowave! :eusa-dance:
1777841505427.png
 
Only 8 days in Japan for me. All new areas.
My plan was to have another 15 days in the Alps but my flight was cancelled due to drone strikes on the stopover airport in Qatar. I'm not 100% yet but I plan to ski Mt Ruapehu in NZ's north island in October.
I'm hoping the world has enough jet fuel to get me skiing in the northern hemisphere in 2027.
 
jamesdeluxe said:
Sad to spend more time talking about the ski days that didn't happen rather than those that did!
Click to expand...
As we all already knew I'm the King of FTO for that this season. Three big 6-10day trips cancelled amongst other plans.

I got exactly one day of snowboarding in at Copper on the last day of Nov. Though half of that was actually spent watching Mikaela Shiffrin win a World Cup SL.

Harvey said:
You gotta admit 108 days sounds way better than 109. 🤠
Click to expand...
Gotta disagree. You should have stopped at 107. :troll: (seven is my favorite number)

Congrats on a new high watermark for ski days.

Harvey said:
If you think anyone cares or would click on the link, I would do it.
Click to expand...
Even if it was a small sample of certain places instead of every ski day. I'm esp curious about the terrain/trees/etc... for some of the BC you were doing which seems to be a lot this season.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top