When I look at the amount of trails/lifts open at Vail (where we are planning to be in a few days) there are still way more open than places like Liberty/Whitetail even have total. We might cancel if we weren’t staying with family, but we paid a premium for Epic passes that work this week specifically so there is that too. It stinks but not really something we can control. Skiiing out west mid winter is not something teens can do due to school calendars. We don’t have Feb break like some places do.

At Steamboat. Team is working hard but it hasn't fallen below freezing the past few nights and its already 50 degrees at 1030am. Lift lines havent been bad but some runs are really crowded and they are gatekeeping on the only home run open. Looks like chance of snow later this week.

In Park City. Conditions are rough, but almost no lift lines and the mountain is fairly empty. I think lots of folks have given up on skiing and accepted the sunk costs. It’s supposed to get below freezing starting Friday so they will at least be able to make snow again. Colorado looks… marginally (very marginally) better.

Anyone there now?

We are locked into copper because of passes. Agree that is a benefit of Ikon.

Most places out west look horrible. Deer Valley has 4.5% of terrain open - it's going to be a mad house (it always is over winter break, but this year is going to be the worst ever). We have Ikon and just switched our plans to Jackson and will pay for a few days at Targhee.

Pivot to Banff/Lake Louise if you can. That’s what we did

Cancel trip.

The whole season pass thing is annoying too since you have to lock in 6 months ahead of time for the best prices. I really hope this is not a sign of things to come with climate change. We were planning a Spring ski trip ti CO but unless they get dumped on in Jan Feb we will cancel that too.

Op here. Us too re WV. Almost always rains! This year we will have great conditions. Can never win.

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Anonymous wrote:We are stuck with a nonrefundable trip too. We are new to skiing and just assumed CO would always be better than the East coast at winter. Our resort has 25 out of 125 trails open.

99.9% of the time Colorado is better than New England for holiday skiing. This is just a wacky year. West Virginia is better than Colorado and Utah this year - unheard of.

Yep - my family usually spends a chunk of winter break in WV and, while it's lovely, skiing is almost never an option. We decided to head to Utah this year for Christmas skiing and... joke's on us!

Anonymous wrote:We are stuck with a nonrefundable trip too. We are new to skiing and just assumed CO would always be better than the East coast at winter. Our resort has 25 out of 125 trails open.

99.9% of the time Colorado is better than New England for holiday skiing. This is just a wacky year. West Virginia is better than Colorado and Utah this year - unheard of.

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at the webcams for Whistler and it is pouring down snow. Revelstoke looks good enough also.

Today is the first accumulating snowfall of the season for the village, it usually starts in November, sometimes October. Bunch of lifts are closed, mid mountain still has rocks/sharks, and download lines have been long.

North is forecast to be good I think. Not Colorado