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// DISPATCHES FROM THE FIELDShowing 9 posts tagged "2025-26"
11 Resorts Are Still Open. By Monday, There Might Be 7.
A-Basin's farewell weekend, Snowbird's last laps, and a Pennsylvania resort that just broke every record in the book. Here's who's still skiing -- and who's about to stop.
52.6 Million Visits and a Whole Lot of Regret: The 2025-26 Season by the Numbers
The NSAA just confirmed what we all felt in our bones: this was a historically bad winter for Western skiing. Here's the full autopsy -- with data.
Colorado Is About to Get Its Biggest Storm of the Year. Every Resort Is Closed.
The cruelest irony of the worst ski season in 50 years: 1-2 feet of snow is falling across the Rockies this week, and there's almost nowhere to ski it.
The Season in Numbers: A Statistical Autopsy of 2025-26
Today is April 1 -- the single most important day in western snowpack measurement. This year, the numbers are a horror show. Here's every stat that matters from a season that fell apart.
The Season Ends, But Shiffrin Doesn't
Mikaela Shiffrin ties the all-time record with her 6th overall World Cup globe -- clinched in a giant slalom, the discipline that nearly ended her career. Meanwhile, the worst closure wave in Western ski history rolls on.
The Reckoning
A disastrous season, an antitrust lawsuit, and a CEO admitting the model is broken. The ski industry's worst winter just became an existential moment.
The Two-Speed Season: Baker Gets 2 Feet While Tahoe Loses 60% of Its Snowpack
The Pacific Northwest is having the time of its life. Everyone else is watching the season melt away. Here's why the weather pattern split the West in half.
The Spring Skiing Survival Guide
Half the West is closing early. The other half is hanging on. Here's exactly where you can still ski -- and where you should be heading right now.
The Season That Fell Apart
California is melting. Colorado bookings are cratering. Resorts are shutting down weeks early. And the CEO of Alterra just walked out the door. A postmortem on the worst Western ski season in decades.