Every Ski Resort Still Open in the East While the West Shuts Down Early The 2025-26 ski season in the East is going out on a high note. While resorts across the American West are closing weeks ahead of schedule amid historic low snowpack, the East delivered one of its strongest seasons in years, with a handful of resorts still making the most of it. Here are the ski resorts still open in the […] Industry News Gregg Frantz | April 13, 2026 0 Comments
Early Season Snow Blankets Australia’s Mount Mawson as Tasmania Sees Rare April Dump A significant early-season snowfall has transformed Mount Mawson in Tasmania’s Mount Field National Park, Australia, with up to 30–40 cm (12-16 inches) of fresh snow reported over the weekend — an unusually strong fall for mid-April. Related:SnowBrains Forecast: Weekend Snow for Australia — Up to 20cm in Tasmania The resort, still officially in its pre-season phase, reported fresh snow conditions […] Weather Oz Brains | April 12, 2026 0 Comments
Vail Resorts Angers Swiss Locals After Closing Crans-Montana Early Despite Strong Conditions The lifts have stopped spinning, but emotions are still running high at Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Local Swiss skiers and business owners are angry that the Swiss resort owned and operated by U.S. conglomerate Vail Resorts ended its 2025–26 ski season on Easter Monday, despite excellent snow conditions. A Change.org petition launched roughly two weeks before the shutdown gathered more than 1,200 […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | April 8, 2026 0 Comments
Park City Mountain Resort, UT, Forced to Close Early, Ends Season on April 5 Park City Mountain in Utah officially wrapped up its season on Sunday, April 5, after a disappointing season marked by unusually high temperatures and low snow totals. The United States’ largest resort had hoped to make it to mid-April, but recent snowstorms turned out weaker than expected, forcing an early closure. The resort was open for a total of 182 […] Industry News Quinn Brophy | April 6, 2026 0 Comments
Mont-Sainte-Anne, QC, Set to Start the Resort’s Biggest Infrastructure Investment in Nearly 40 Years Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec, is about to undergo the mountain’s biggest infrastructure investment in nearly 40 years. Once seen as the largest ski resort on Canada’s East Coast, Mont-Sainte-Anne has declined in prominence over the last 30 years due to competition and aging infrastructure. With the announcement of a CAD 100 million (USD 72.5 million) investment into on-mountain infrastructure, Mont-Sainte-Anne looks to […] Industry News Brett Currie | April 5, 2026 0 Comments
Norovirus Outbreak Affects Nearly 100 Teenagers at La Plagne, France Nearly 100 teenagers at a holiday center in La Plagne, France, have fallen ill with a highly contagious virus, prompting an ongoing investigation by local authorities. Emergency services were called on Tuesday, March 31, to a Union des Centres Sportifs de Plein Air (UCPA) center in the resort, where around 20 firefighters and multiple medical teams examined 89 people — […] Industry News SnowBrains | April 1, 2026 0 Comments
Steamboat Resort, CO, Closing Early This Sunday After Worst Snow Season on Record Steamboat Ski Resort, Colorado, will closing early, this Sunday, April 5, one week ahead of the April 12 date it set just two weeks ago, and two weeks ahead of the original closing date set at the beginning of the season, as a spring heatwave strips what little remains of the season’s already depleted snowpack. Related: Which Ski Resorts Are […] Industry News SnowBrains | March 30, 2026 0 Comments
Winter Park, CO’s, Mary Jane Opened Late, Turned 50, and Now She’s Closing Early Winter Park‘s Mary Jane will ski its last laps Saturday, closing March 28 after one of its shortest seasons on record, the resort announced today. Lifts are closing temporarily at noon on Friday to preserve snow for a proper send-off. The Winter Park side of the resort will continue operating as late as conditions allow, the resort said. “The last […] Industry News Steven Agar | March 27, 2026 0 Comments
Utah’s Warmest Winter on Record Is Ending Park City’s Ski Season 3 Weeks Early Park City Mountain Resort, Utah, will close its Mountain Village this weekend, ending the 2025-26 season weeks earlier than in recent memory (with the exception of 2020 for COVID), and three weeks earlier than originally planned on April 20. Related: A Battle for Park City Mountain, UT: Billionaire Matthew Prince vs. Vail Resorts Empire Crescent and Payday lifts will spin […] Industry News SnowBrains | March 27, 2026 0 Comments
Palisades Tahoe, CA, Will Close a Month Early After Snowpack Crashes to 20% of Average California’s Palisades Tahoe, the Spring Skiing Capital of North America and historically the last major resort in the Lake Tahoe region to close each season, announced yesterday that it will end the 2025–26 season roughly a month earlier than planned, citing a rapidly deteriorating snowpack driven by record-warm spring temperatures. Related: Full List of All the Early Ski Resort Closures […] Industry News SnowBrains | March 25, 2026 0 Comments
Full List of All the Early Ski Resort Closures Across the Western U.S. It’s been a tough season across much of the West, and now the impacts are becoming impossible to ignore. A growing number of ski resorts are either shutting down early or have already called it a season, as persistently low snowfall and warm temperatures have taken their toll. Thin coverage, exposed terrain, and shortened operating windows have become the norm […] Industry News Brent Glogau | March 24, 2026 2 Comments
2 Backcountry Skiers Survive Avalanche Near Nuuk, Greenland, Buried Up to 16 Feet Deep for Nearly an Hour Two backcountry skiers caught in an avalanche near the Sisorarfiit ski lift on the outskirts of Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, miraculously survived for an hour beneath up to 16 feet of snow on Monday. Related: Swiss Research Shows 10% Jump in Avalanche Survival and 45% Faster Rescues in Last 40 Years Qamutit SAR group received the alert at 2:46 p.m. local […] Avalanche AvyBrains | March 24, 2026 0 Comments
California’s Donner Ski Ranch Closes Early, Holding Out Hope for Snow Donner Ski Ranch has called an early end to its 2025–26 ski season, announcing it will cease operations as of March 21 after a prolonged stretch of warm, dry weather left the mountain without sufficient snow to continue. It’s a stark contrast to last season, when operations continued until mid-May. “When it snows you open. When there is no snow […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | March 22, 2026 0 Comments
Utah’s Snowbasin to Close Early After Challenging Winter, Announces March 22 Closing Day Snowbasin Resort, Utah, will close its 2025–26 ski season on Sunday, March 22, earlier than expected, as unseasonably warm temperatures and low snowfall brought one of the most challenging winters in recent memory. The March 22 closure is significantly earlier than Snowbasin’s typical mid-April closing dates and appears to be the earliest end to a season in recent years. Related: […] Industry News SnowBrains | March 19, 2026 0 Comments
Homewood Mountain Resort, CA, Ends Season Early as Historic Heatwave Melts Sierra Snowpack Homewood Mountain Resort, California, ended its 2025-26 ski season yesterday, becoming the latest California resort to succumb to a March heatwave that is rapidly melting an already poor Sierra Nevada snowpack. Related: Sierra-at-Tahoe, CA, Announces Closure for 79th Season Amid High Spring Temperatures The Tahoe resort cited forecast highs in the 70s beginning Wednesday and extending through the weekend as […] Industry News SnowBrains | March 18, 2026 0 Comments
SnowBrains Forecast: 10-20 cm in the Southern Andes of South America Early This Week Across South America, the most reliable snow arrives early this week in the southern Andes, then the pattern turns quieter before a lighter and warmer central Andes shot later in the period. Confidence is highest from Monday afternoon, March 16, through Tuesday afternoon, March 17, when southern Chile and the northern Patagonian Andes should see the steadiest snowfall. After that, […] Weather WeatherBrains | March 15, 2026 0 Comments
The Legendary Antarctic Iceberg A23-A is Nearly Gone After 40 Years 40 years ago, Iceberg A23-A was the largest iceberg in the world–twice the size of Greater London as a matter of fact. Today, it’s noticeably smaller being around but still larger than New York City. Related: The World’s Largest Iceberg is Falling Apart The iceberg’s journey started four decades ago—the year is 1986. The infamous Chernobyl accident happened. Whitney Houston […] Brains travellinquinn | March 13, 2026 0 Comments
SnowBrains Forecast: 4-8 Inches for the Northeast Through Early Sunday A quick Friday through Saturday refresh is the most dependable part of this forecast, with most northern New England and Vermont ski areas landing in the 3″-7″ range and Sugarloaf favored for 6″-8″. After that, the pattern splits: New England turns windier and much milder Sunday night into Monday with mixed precipitation and uneven upper-mountain snow, while Mt. Bohemia is […] Weather WeatherBrains | March 13, 2026 0 Comments
Mt. Shasta Ski Park, CA, Shuts Down Season Early Amid Record Warmth and Vanishing Snowpack Mt. Shasta Ski Park, the northernmost ski area in California, has closed for the rest of the 2025-26 season after unseasonably warm weather and one of the state’s worst snowpacks in a decade forced the resort to call it quits early. The locally owned Indy Pass ski area announced Tuesday that the warm forecast and lack of snow made continued […] Industry News SnowBrains | March 12, 2026 0 Comments
Time is Running Out as Western U.S. Snowpack Struggles Through Early March The Western USA snowpack is facing a critical deficit as the winter season approaches its final weeks. According to USDA NRCS SNOTEL data from March 4, 2026, large portions of the Sierra Nevada, Cascades, Rocky Mountains, and the Southwest are sitting well below their historical averages. Meteorologists point to a stubborn pattern of persistent high pressure in the eastern Pacific, […] Weather Martin Kuprianowicz | March 10, 2026 0 Comments
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