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Analysis
Vail Just Confirmed What Everyone Already Knew: This Was a Catastrophe
Skier visits down 14.9%. Rocky Mountain visitation cratered 25%. Pass sales for next year are already soft. And this weekend, half the remaining resorts close for good -- right as a spring storm rolls in.
Apr 24, 20268 min readvail-resorts, 2025-26-season, closing-day, skier-visits, epic-pass, industry-data, alta, big-sky, spring-skiing, prediction-markets
Feature
Aspen Closed on Bare Grass. A Pennsylvania Resort Is Making Snow. This Season Broke Reality.
The NYT just wrote Colorado's ski obituary. Mammoth's getting buried. Camelback is 11 days past its longest season ever. And this week's storm might give the last holdouts one more powder day.
Apr 22, 20267 min readaspen, mammoth, camelback, spring-skiing, closing-day, season-recap, colorado, pennsylvania, 2025-26-season
News
Last Call: The Biggest Closing Weekend in Decades
Easter Sunday will kill more ski seasons simultaneously than any day in recent memory. Here's where to make your last turns -- and who's hanging on.
Apr 3, 20267 min readclosures, spring-skiing, april-2026, storm-recap, colorado, utah, pnw, california, closing-day, easter