Skiing news

• After A Late Start to Season, Alta Finally Announces Opening Day

  04-12-2025 23:26 via powder.com
  
  After a bit of a delay to start of winter in the Wasatch, Alta Ski Area has announced their new opening date. The beloved Utah ski area will officially open for the 2025/26 ski season on Sunday, December 7, 2025.
  A storm is currently forecasted to hit the area starting on Friday afternoon and continuing into Saturday night. As of now, 8-12" are expected to fall Friday night alone, with another 4-6" on Saturday. Given the forecast, Alta is currently planning for a limited opening.
  The resort plan
  
  Read more

• 6? 7? New Hampshire Ski Resort Hops on Viral Trend With Discounted Lift Tickets

  04-12-2025 20:35 via powder.com
  
  For technically being part of Gen Z, I am painfully behind the times on most social media trends and trends generally. Luckily, my coworkers are far more with it than I am and have informed me of a social media trend based on a Skrilla song called 'Doot Doot (6 7)' that originated on TikTok. Trust me, I know how much of a boomer I sound like already. Anyway, apparently, as part of this trend, people find ways to use the numbers 6 & 7 for things and put the audio behind it. New Hampshire
  
  Read more

• Maine’s Hilarious Holiday Event With Hundreds of Skiing Santas Is Back

  04-12-2025 20:06 via powder.com
  
  Sunday River is bringing back one of their most beloved—and strange—holiday traditions.
  For one day, more than 250 fully fledged Santas, beard and all, will descend on Sunday River for a day of Christmas cheer and skiing. As the resort's event page put it, "No, you're not hallucinating; this is Santa Sunday." It sounds like an eggnog-induced fever dream to us, but we're here for it!Santa Sunday returns to Sunday River on December 14, 2025.
  The 2026 POWDER Photo Annual is here! Look f
  
  Read more

• PBR x RMU Just Dropped New Skis, Is This “Peak Ski Culture”?

  04-12-2025 19:36 via powder.com
  
  Powder aims to feature only the best products and services.If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission.Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer and skiing have a long history together, and it's not just the kind of history that happens in divey après mountain town bars, ski movie premieres, or with cans snuck onto chairlifts. Every few years, we'll see the legendary Blue Ribbon show up on the topsheets of a pair of skis proudly sported in a liftline or retired to the wall of a favor
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• A Powerful Northwest Flow Is Set To Bury Western Ski Resorts in Feet of Snow

  04-12-2025 19:28 via powder.com
  
  A potent storm cycle driven by a classic northwest flow pattern is set to deliver significant snowfall across the Western US through the weekend. The energy kicks off in the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies Thursday night, delivering heavy totals to the Tetons by Friday morning. The moisture plume shifts south and east, setting up a major powder event for Utah’s Wasatch Range and Northern Colorado (specifically Steamboat) Friday night into Saturday. While wind issues and fluctuating
  
  Read more

• UDOT's Plan for Big Cottonwood Canyon Ski Traffic? More Buses and Tolls

  04-12-2025 18:59 via powder.com
  
  The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) has unveiled a new plan to address traffic in Big Cottonwood Canyon on SR-190 just outside Salt Lake City. The proposed approaches? More buses and tolling.Big Cottonwood Canyon is home to two popular ski resorts—Brighton and Solitude—and has developed a reputation for major winter congestion.“Anyone who’s tried to get up the canyon on a busy winter morning knows how challenging it can be,” UDOT project manager Devin Weder
  
  Read more

• These Montana Ski Resorts Are Opening Now, and Fans Are Thrilled

  04-12-2025 14:00 via powder.com
  
  Despite a slow start to the season, winter is finally creeping its way into the Rockies, and a few ski areas in Montana have announced opening dates this week.A storm that came through in the last week dropped 4-8" of snow on ski areas all over Montana, and there's significantly more in the forecast. While at this point, forecasts in the West feel like more of a disappointing tease than anything, the shred of optimism we have left thinks the next bit could be pretty darn good for MT skiers.Here'
  
  Read more

• Why Is Utah's New Olympic Logo Drawing Mixed Feedback?

  04-12-2025 12:12 via powder.com
  
  Scheduled for 2034, North American many skiing fans are eagerly anticipating the Utah Winter Olympics, but the event’s newly revealed logo has proven somewhat controversial online. Why? Critics mostly don't like the way it looked.The “Utah 2034” transitional logo, which has been described as "cutting edge" and "bold," uses unconventional, blocky text. When the X page for the upcoming Games posted to debut the logo, there were more than a few adverse reactions. One commente
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

Follow @Skiing_nws_USA on Twitter!