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Now that kids are back in school, it’s time to focus on getting in gear for the 2025/26 ski and snowboard season. Here are the scheduled opening dates for more than a dozen Utah resorts, and some news of new lifts and terrain at some of them. Utah markets itself as having “The Greatest Snow
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While you were tanning on the beach somewhere, or lining up with a zillion other tourists in Barcelona or Venice, resorts in Utah were working full-time adding new lifts and snowmaking, smoothing out terrain, even adding major expansions along with added parking. Those improvements will come in handy in 2034, when the Winter Olympic Games
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Of course it depends on the snow, but these are the projected opening dates of our favorite ski/snowboard resorts in the USA and Canada. I’m ready to get on a chairlift again – are you? In alphabetical order by state, followed by Canada, by province. If you are thinking about a season pass – multi-resort
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Even if you don’t want one of the multi-resort season passes like Ikon, Epic or Mountain Collective, there are plenty of money-saving deals for individual resorts, even an entire state, for the 2024/25 snow season. This is what’s on sale now, through October, for you and the kids, at some of my favorite mountains and
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The ski and snowboard season gets underway officially on Thanksgiving Weekend, with downhill destinations from Alta in Utah to Windham in New York either already open or opening, and several are celebrating important anniversaries or introducing important new trams and lifts. Here’s a round-up of the most important news for those with snow brains. Season
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Club Med and Snowbasin have agreed that the all-inclusive international chain will not build a ski property at the Utah resort after all. It’s not a real surprise to us ski industry insiders, who have long known about construction delays due to environmental issues, including water and electric power. Snowbasin is one of my favorite
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Club Med, which pioneered the all-inclusive resort concept in the 1950s, is on a construction binge, set to open 17 new resorts in the US, Europe and Asia by 2024, including Club Med Utah. Plus, they are upgrading 13 others. Club Med also opened four new resorts and upgraded four others in 2021 despite the
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There’s still plenty of snow on the slopes of Utah – and plenty of deals on spring skiing and season passes for next year. Here’s where and how to save now on fun on the snow the rest of this season and next season, too. The weather is warmer, base depths are deep and there’s
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