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JimK - DCSki Columnist
one month ago (edited one month ago)
Member since 01/14/2004 🔗
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I drove west from the DC area on MLK Weekend 2025.  It was frigid all across the country, but not snowy so the drive was easy, if cold.

I skied four days in CO in the days following MLK day, one Winter Park and three Copper.  Three days never went much above zero degrees.  The last and mildest day had a high about 20 degrees.

21 Jan 2025: One of the few photos I have from my day at Winter Park.  This is a hard carving friend.  It was minus 8 when I pulled into the Mary Jane lot that morning.

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I spent the next three days of January skiing at Copper Mtn.  Here are a few pics.

View of I70 from upper mtn:

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Moon rocks:

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Summit of Three Bears chair in Copper Bowl:

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View of Spaulding Bowl, one of my favorite runs that visit and occurred on the day it was a balmy 20 degrees.

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Upon arriving in Utah on Jan 24 I promptly missed about five days of skiing due to a respiratory cold.  My first ski day was 30 Jan.  This photo from that day shows a snow cannon firing (center) in Snowbird's Mineral Basin.  I usually don't see snow making in Jan/Feb in Utah.  This was a harbinger of a somewhat lean winter in the West.

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My first UT pow day (~6") of 2025 was at Solitude on 1 Feb.

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On 7 Feb I had the most unusual experience of skiing while 10" of graupel fell at Snowbird.  It was better than hardpack, but not as nice as blower pow.  The best descriptor is Surfy.  Here's a buddy surfing the graupel on STH:

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More snow fell that night totaling 19" in 24 hours and the next day, 8 Feb, the sun came out.  It was one of my best powder days of the season.  This is another friend making a figure 8 with my line in the Peruvian Gulch area of Snowbird.

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I took a break and went to Las Vegas for Super Bowl weekend to meet some friends.  All I came home with was a case of the flu and lost another five ski days or so over President's Weekend.  It included more respiratory congestion, but also fever and aches/pains.  I had the flu and covid shots in the fall.  I guess I'll also get the RSV vaccine next time??  Sick twice in three weeks was not fun!

A big storm hit Utah while I was sidelined and chomping at the bit.  I got out on the morning of 21 Feb 2025.  It was an extremely beautiful combo of sunshine and lots of recent snow over the last week (5+feet) at Snowbird.

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23 Feb 2025, entrance to Ski Patrol Gully

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This is the view from inside Ski Patrol Gully in Snowbird's Mineral Basin.

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Mineral Basin proper the next day, Summit Lodge is at upper right:

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I went back to Colorado during the first week of March 2025.  I was part of a lucky little group that caught a rope drop into The Beavers at A-Basin on the morning of 4 Mar 2025. We got fresh tracks in what felt like about 16" of nice light snow in places. 

A friend coming:

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Same friend going:

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Next day at Copper Mtn, beautiful Union Meadows area.  Copper is large enough to have something for everyone:

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Same area with a septuagenarian buddy enjoying fine snow conditions:

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12 March 2025 back at Snowbird, UT.  This is a friend in the Rasta Chutes area of Little Cloud Bowl.

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Heading to the Northern Rockies in a couple days to ski with an old DCSki buddy.  To be continued...

Mongo
one month ago
Member since 02/24/2015 🔗
107 posts

This is great!

Question for you - or anyone else who knows - for a trip on the week of April 14-18 from the DC area, would you recommend Snowbird/Alta?

I'm leaning towards Snowbird/Alta because we have Ikon, and it's pretty easy to get there (direct flight from DC) and to get from the SLC airport to the mountain.

Would you buy the airline tickets now, or wait until we get closer and pull the trigger based on the snow conditions? How much more expensive will tickets likely be inside the four-week window?

My other thought was Mammoth, because I know they usually have good snow in the spring. However, that involves a long drive from Reno or LAX after the cross-country flight, which is not so fun.

Open to other suggestions...

JimK - DCSki Columnist
one month ago
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 Both Utah and Mammoth are having slightly below avg snow years.  Both should still be quite good for April skiing.  Not that savvy about air fares, but I'd wait until closer dates for current conditions, then choose.

Mongo wrote:

This is great!

Question for you - or anyone else who knows - for a trip on the week of April 14-18 from the DC area, would you recommend Snowbird/Alta?

I'm leaning towards Snowbird/Alta because we have Ikon, and it's pretty easy to get there (direct flight from DC) and to get from the SLC airport to the mountain.

Would you buy the airline tickets now, or wait until we get closer and pull the trigger based on the snow conditions? How much more expensive will tickets likely be inside the four-week window?

My other thought was Mammoth, because I know they usually have good snow in the spring. However, that involves a long drive from Reno or LAX after the cross-country flight, which is not so fun.

Open to other suggestions...

marzNC - DCSki Supporter 
one month ago
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Mongo wrote:

This is great!

Question for you - or anyone else who knows - for a trip on the week of April 14-18 from the DC area, would you recommend Snowbird/Alta?

I'm leaning towards Snowbird/Alta because we have Ikon, and it's pretty easy to get there (direct flight from DC) and to get from the SLC airport to the mountain.

Would you buy the airline tickets now, or wait until we get closer and pull the trigger based on the snow conditions? How much more expensive will tickets likely be inside the four-week window?

My other thought was Mammoth, because I know they usually have good snow in the spring. However, that involves a long drive from Reno or LAX after the cross-country flight, which is not so fun.

Open to other suggestions...

 Can you fly midweek?  The difference in plane fares Tue, Wed, Thu is noticeable.  In general, plane fares to SLC are higher this season than in recent years.  At least that's the case for Southwest.  From RDU, I don't usually fly any other airline.

Plane fares within 2 weeks are usually very high.

I've been skiing Alta the first half of April for about 15 years.  Have always had a powder day, or at least half a day before it warmed up too much.  Of course, never know what will happen more than a few days beforehand.  My last few ski days at Alta for my April trip will be April 14-16.

You might check the list of Ikon resorts that are offering spring skiing in April for people who buy a 2025-26 who don't have a 2024-25 Ikon.  Presumably those are resorts that expect to have a decent amount of terrain and lifts open.

Winter Park and ABasin should still be good in April this season.

Shotmaker
one month ago
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198 posts

JimK wrote:


 Both Utah and Mammoth are having slightly below avg snow years.  Both should still be quite good for April skiing.  Not that savvy about air fares, but I'd wait until closer dates for current conditions, then choose.

Yes it's a down year in Mammoth but we just left there today with 30" fresh pow from yesterday evening through the day today.

 

Scott - DCSki Editor
one month ago
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Looks like some nice skiing Jim!  Also, I learned what graupel means.
JimK - DCSki Columnist
29 days ago (edited 28 days ago)
Member since 01/14/2004 🔗
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In mid-March I took a very entertaining road trip through Western MT and Northern ID.  I've rarely been in this area, especially so far north and I skied a couple of mountains I had never skied before.

On 15 March 2025 I skied Lost Trail Ski Area in western Montana for the first time.  It is set at the top of Lost Trail Pass (elev 7k feet) on US 93 in a remote part of western MT.  Some of the trails are in Idaho and some in Montana, very cool.  It's pretty big too for being in the middle of nowhere, 1800' vertical, 1800 skiable acres, 5 double chairs and 3 rope tows, with nary a safety bar in the place:-)  Nearest city is Missoula, MT about 90 minutes to the north.

This is the view from ID 28 in the vicinity of Diamond Peak, ID (12k feet), about 2 hours south of Lost Trail ski area.  Very little human habitation in this area.

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Approaching Lost Trail pass and ski area.

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Just a section of the base lodge.

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A friend showed me around the mtn.  We caught a mini-powder day with about 4-5" new snow by the time we left the mtn.1743131411_tpwfbnjpettl.jpg

It was rather quiet for a Saturday with lots of elbow room on the slopes.

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Other direction.

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This is the Saddle Mtn Chair #4 leading to the highest lift served point on the mtn at about elevation 8200'.  It had 1800' vertical and covered some really nice blue square and single black diamond terrain.

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Debbie Armstrong Olympic Gold Medalist in giant slalom in 1984 was giving a clinic the day of my visit.  She's left, in white helmet with dark blue jacket.

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Very nice tree spacing in many places around the mountain.

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The week of March 17, 2025 I skied five days at beautiful Schweitzer Mtn in northern Idaho.  To be continued...

JimK - DCSki Columnist
28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)
Member since 01/14/2004 🔗
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From the Lost Trail area my wife Kathy and I drove north in the direction of Schweitzer Mtn, ID via Spokane, WA.  It was nearly 400 more miles of driving in a section of the beautiful Northern Rockies I'd never been to before.  It was fun taking in various points of interest.  

This leg of the trip included driving several hours on I90 and we saw, but did not ski, Lookout Pass ski area on the MT/ID border.  Not only can you ski in two states at this ski area, but also in two time zones (Mtn and Pacific)!

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We picked up our son Vince at the Spokane airport.  He wanted to ski Schweitzer too.  But on the way my wife and I stopped for a couple hours to stroll around the spectacular Riverfront Park in downtown Spokane, WA.  It was the site of a World's Fair in 1974 and several structures featured at that event remain including bridges, a clock tower, old fashioned carousel , gondola ride, and a large covered pavilion. 

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Adjacent to the park was an impressive natural point of interest I didn't expect, Spokane Falls, a large multi-part falls/cascade/dam that dwarfs Great Falls VA.

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On to Schweitzer...

I skied five out of six days during a week at Schweitzer Mtn, ID in mid-March 2025. It was my first ever visit to Schweitzer. It was as beautiful as advertised. The skiable acreage (2,900 acres, 2,400' vertical, top elevation 6,400') was more impressive than I expected. The front face of the mtn features quite a bit of above tree line or nearly treeless terrain. It's a huge half-bowl. The backside is a similar giant bowl, perhaps more of a horseshoe, but features more treed terrain.

I caught two mostly sunny ski days and three fairly snowy/lower viz ski days. It snowed about six overnight inches of somewhat heavy snow before each of my last three ski days. Skiing this increasingly deep-ish snow in the offpiste was very challenging for me. I was leg-weary by my last morning of skiing, Saturday, 22 March 2025.  Schweitzer Mtn and PNW snow kicked my behind - the sign of a good mountain :-)

17 Mar 2025 Schweitzer approach road, impressive snowpack. At the base of the mtn, about 4000' below, there was virtually none.

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View of base area with magnificent Lake Pend Oreille (Pond-der-ray) in the background. Surely, one of the most impressive lake views I've ever seen from the 100 ski areas I've visited.

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Looking up at a small portion of the Frontside from the base.

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Vince checking out the front face of the mtn.

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The upper lookers left of the front face.

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Looking up the Lakeview chair lift line on the front face.  Good, wide open skiing here on clear days.1743181010_wzkqawuahwqs.jpg
March 18th. Lake covered by low clouds in the early AM.  Beautiful!

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To be continued...

wgo
28 days ago
Member since 02/10/2004 🔗
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Jim, your reports from out West are always a highlight of this forum. Thanks for posting.
wgo
28 days ago
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Jim, your reports from out West are always a highlight of this forum. Thanks for posting.
JimK - DCSki Columnist
27 days ago
Member since 01/14/2004 🔗
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 Thanks @wgo.  Us ski Dads gotta carry the torch :-)

wgo wrote:

Jim, your reports from out West are always a highlight of this forum. Thanks for posting.
JimK - DCSki Columnist
27 days ago (edited 27 days ago)
Member since 01/14/2004 🔗
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Schweitzer continued...

I was quite surprised at how big the backside (AKA Outback Bowl) of Schweitzer is and its importance to the resort's layout.  It possibly has more skiable acres than the front with mostly better exposure, and quite a bit of the best tree/offpiste skiing.  

View down the impressively steep Colburn Triple chair lift line on the backside of the mtn.

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Riding up the Colburn triple on a stormy day.

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Skiing more backside terrain (depicted in the background of the first Colburn photo).

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More backside trees over by the Cedar Park Express chair.

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Outback Bowl even has it's own little eatery down near the bottom of the backside trail network.

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But the most scenic spot for a lunch at Schweitzer is at the summit Sky House.  

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I took my wife Kathy up there for lunch on one of the prettier days.  She loved it.

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A really special part of my Schweitzer visit was that I got to ski with my old DCSki buddy @johnl, in center.

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Again.

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John loves trees and offpiste.

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Lake Pend Oreille is 1,150' deep (5th deepest in the US) and nearly 45 miles long.  It makes for a heavenly backdrop at Schweitzer Mtn, ID.

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wgo
27 days ago
Member since 02/10/2004 🔗
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Very nice. That last photo would be a good entry for your article on scenic lakes you can see from ski areas, from 10 or 15 years ago.
Laurel Hill Crazie
27 days ago
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Great stories as usual, Jim. Your photography is outstanding, too. 
eggraid
25 days ago
Member since 02/9/2010 🔗
528 posts

Love Schweitzer! We've only been there twice, but it does have fun terrain and beautiful views (when it's not too foggy). It also had some of the most impressive snow ghosts I've ever seen (evergreen trees covered by rime ice that end up looking like ghosts). I don't think you mentioned one thing we loved about skiing there - the lack of crowds! Also, the food on the mountain was outstanding, at the new Sky House that you mentioned, and also at the shack in the outback bowl. Not super cheap, just like any other mountain, but it was tastier than most. 

JimK - DCSki Columnist
18 days ago (edited 17 days ago)
Member since 01/14/2004 🔗
3,034 posts

Apr 1-6, 2025 in the Wasatch has been wonderful. Winter came back with 20" new, powdery snow at many resorts on Apr 1, then there was 2-6" more the next two days. It's been one of my favorite stretches this winter, and best of all - low crowds the whole time, even this weekend. 

Apr 1 at Alta:
Me:

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Friends.

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Supreme lift line 10 AM.

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Apr 2 Snowbird, a real fine day of high quality leftovers from the day before. You can see small parts of Gadzoom and Little Clouds chairs in this pic taken from Gad 2 area.

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Friend entering Great Scott.

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Random hucker in the Forbidden Zone of Upper Cirque.

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Saddle section of Tiger Tail area. I had 2 really great laps through here and very quiet.

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Apron of the Rasta Chutes area in Little Cloud Bowl.

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Apr 3 Brighton, puking again with small lift lines again.

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Good place on storm days!

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Great Western area soft and friendly.

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Took the 4th off:eusa-shhh:

Apr 5 Snowbird again.
Me in Silver Fox area near summit.

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My friend same area.

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Tracks observed in Pipeline Chute, possibly the first this spring!

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Gorgeous blue sky day in Mineral, skied the Bookends in center background shortly after taking this photo.

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Good beer I bought recently in Missoula on the drive back from Schweitzer Mtn.  View is from Creekside patio.

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Apr 6, 2025.  A special day for me. After ten years of skiing Snowbird fairly regularly I climbed Baldy from the Snowbird side for the first time ever today.  Better late than never.

A view of Mt Baldy from Snowbird.  Our goal was to climb it and then ski down Main Chute on the backside and into the Alta ski area.  Then use the Blackjack traverse to get back to Snowbird.  A big, burly lap.

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The boot pack involves a hike of maybe 500' vertical at 11,000'.

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Nice 360 degs views at the top.

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Looking back at the Bird as a hiker approaches on the route we took.  I think Baldy is actually about 50' higher than the lift served summit of Snowbird.

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A look down Main Chute from the top.

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Looking up, about 50 yards below the drop in.

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Main Chute's pretty long, but considering the effort to get there, it's over quick :-)  The terrain in the background is the Collins side of Alta.

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My friend at right, inside Main Chute.

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Near the bottom, in geezer survival mode :-)  Sensationally beautiful day!

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The second week of April will be much more Spring-like with day time highs on the mtn in the 50s, rather than the 40s.  Can be fun, but limits the window for good snow conditions to only a few hours per day.

wgo
18 days ago
Member since 02/10/2004 🔗
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Ok Jim you've convinced me. Snowbird next year!
Laurel Hill Crazie
17 days ago
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Great reports, Jim. I love it!
oldensign - DCSki Columnist
17 days ago
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Awesome! Lost Trail was on my list this year before I broke my wrist! Skied Lookout Pass before it is lots of fun. Glad you went for Schweitzer and not Silver. Schweitzer is a much better choice. 

jn_freedman - DCSki Supporter 
17 days ago
Member since 03/17/2018 🔗
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Good Stuff Jim,

My son and I have booked (fully refundable) tickets for closing weekend at Snowbird.  Let's see what happens....


JNF

JimK - DCSki Columnist
17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)
Member since 01/14/2004 🔗
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Typically snow conditions are reasonably decent in late May.  By that time usually only select portions of Snowbird remain open such as Little Cloud Bowl, Peruvian Gulch and possibly Mineral Basin. 

Here are some pics from Memorial Day 2023 (May 29, the only year I stayed in UT long enough to ski Memorial Day):

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Mineral Basin

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Person doing a flip on The Wave on Little Cloud Bowl.1744150790_nuenurknqney.jpg

Pond skim crash at the bottom of Anderson Hill in Peruvian Gulch.

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Last year on May 6th I skied in 18" of fresh snow.

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jn_freedman wrote:

Good Stuff Jim,

My son and I have booked (fully refundable) tickets for closing weekend at Snowbird.  Let's see what happens....


JNF

Mongo
16 days ago
Member since 02/24/2015 🔗
107 posts

We're going to be at Snowbird/Alta next week. Any tips or suggestions? 

Best snow conditions will be first thing in the morning?

JimK - DCSki Columnist
16 days ago
Member since 01/14/2004 🔗
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 yes, assuming normal spring conditions and cool nights, start early with areas that get morning sun.  at snowbird that would be mineral basin. then move elsewhere at 11 or noon when shady areas get softened by sun.

IF you post here with one day advance notice for when you'd ski at least half a day at Snowbird I'd try to come up and do some turns with you, if I don't have a conflict.

Mongo wrote:

We're going to be at Snowbird/Alta next week. Any tips or suggestions? 

Best snow conditions will be first thing in the morning?

marzNC - DCSki Supporter 
16 days ago
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Mongo wrote:

We're going to be at Snowbird/Alta next week. Any tips or suggestions? 

Best snow conditions will be first thing in the morning?

 What day will you start skiing?  I've been at Alta since April 6 and will be skiing thru April 16.  Been skiing Alta in April for 15 years.

The warm temps will end by this weekend.  My friends and I who meet up at Alta Lodge during the last week or two of the Alta season spend the mornings off Sugarloaf and Supreme.  Usually mostly on groomers if temps stay in the 30s.

Depending on how cold it gets overnight, Collins off-piste terrain can stay good most of the afternoon even when temps at the base get into the 40s.  Ballroom was good in the afternoon.  I finished on Lower Rustler this afternoon at 3:30 and had a good run in soft bumps.

JimK - DCSki Columnist
5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)
Member since 01/14/2004 🔗
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April 2025 continued to be a very excellent month for skiing in the Wasatch Mtns.  It's also been quiet to very quiet.

There was a great string of spring ski days in the second week.  This is my lunch time view from the porch of the mid-mtn Roundhouse Restaurant at Solitude on 9 Apr 2025.  Good day with very few people, the Solitude of old :-) 

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There's a very neat old patrol building at the summit of the Powderhorn chairlift at Solitude.

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I rode UTA Bus 972 for my day at Solitude, 9 passengers up, 7 down. Love bus on quiet days.  It's free with a season pass or an Ikon pass, but it stops running in mid-April as the skier/boarder visitation level dwindles in Utah.

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10 Apr 2025 was a beautiful spring ski day and I visited Deer Valley with a couple of friends.

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This is part of the new 2000 acres of expanded ski terrain coming to Deer Valley next year:

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 The famous Daly Chutes are in the background of this photo.  They were closed to skiing by this point in the season at Deer Valley.1745200848_xrnozzeahwvl.jpg

Chillin' in my RGIII jersey outside the Silver Lake Lodge on a gorgeous day.

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Enjoyed a fine day of spring skiing at Brighton ski area on 15 Apr 2025 with these two friends:

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Scenic terrain beside the Millicent chairlift:

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16 April at Snowbird was the last mild weather day for a while. Sunroof open on 1st tram at 9 AM.

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View from the Road to Provo cat track:

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Storm brewing and a return to wintry conditions coming soon:

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On 18 April I skied with my old friend JohnL at Snowbird.  It was a nice pow day!

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Again.

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There was a mogul competition being held beside the new Wilbere chair that day.  This is a lady skier doing the inverted aerial.

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19 Apr 2025, was a super beautiful day at Snowbird, intense sunshine, clear visibility, high of only 40 degs.  The recent snow stayed wintry for much of the day.

L-R:  Two friends and myself, this is at the top of the Far Bookends in Mineral Basin. Mary Ellen Gulch (a potential area of future ski terrain expansion at Snowbird) and Mt Timpanogos (far background) are behind us.

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The spot where we are standing above is the snowy saddle a bit left of center in this photo from a higher point in Mineral Basin at Snowbird.

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One of my companions this day was a really fine and super fit 70 year old telemarker!

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Hope everyone had a nice Easter Sunday.

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