Secret Meeting With Telluride Ski Resort, CO, Owner Leads to 2 Mayoral Resignations and Telski Lawsuit In the last few days of 2025, two Coloradans took a trip to California in pursuit of a business deal. Martinique ‘Marti’ Prohaska, the Mayor of Mountain Village, Colorado, and Meehan Fee, the Mayor pro-tem of Telluride, Colorado, flew to Newport Beach, California to meet with Chuck Horning, the maligned billionaire owner of Telluride Ski Resort, with an offer to […] Industry News Zach Armstrong | March 12, 2026 1 Comment
Ski Patrol Union at Telluride, CO, Approves New Contract Allowing the Resort to Reopen on Saturday The Telluride ski patrol union approved a new contract that will allow the Colorado ski resort to reopen this weekend. Telluride Ski Resort patrollers went on strike on December 27, and resort owner Chuck Horning responded by closing the ski area. Negotiations between Telluride and the Telluride Professional Ski Patrol Association began in June 2025 but have slowed significantly in the […] Industry News Gregg Frantz | January 8, 2026 0 Comments
Opinion: Amidst Telluride Strike Over Value of Ski Patrol Experience, Mammoth Reminds Us What Patrollers Risk Last week, Cole Murphy, an experienced Mammoth Ski Patroller, tragically lost his life as a result of injuries sustained in an in-bounds avalanche at Mammoth Mountain. At the time of the accident, Murphy and other ski patrollers were working to mitigate the risks of in-bounds avalanches, acutely heightened by the more than 60 inches of snow that had fallen in […] Zach Armstrong | January 4, 2026 1 Comment
Telluride Ski Resort, CO, Will Open Limited Terrain Monday With Workers Crossing Picket Line Telluride Ski Resort has announced it plans to open Lift 1 on Monday, the first terrain it has opened since the ski patrol strike began on December 27. The Telluride Times reported that internal communications from Telski stated “contingency EMS and patrol staff” will be used to staff the opening. Unless an agreement is reached on Saturday or Sunday, these […] Industry News Zach Armstrong | January 3, 2026 3 Comments
Telluride Ski Resort, CO, Will be Closed This Weekend Due to Ski Patrol Strike Telluride Ski Resort has announced it will be closed on December 27 due to a ski patrol strike. The Telluride Professional Ski Patrol authorized the strike last night with a 99% vote after rejecting the resort’s final contract offer. Related: Telluride Professional Ski Patrol Votes to Strike Starting December 27 “As a result of the Ski Patrol’s decision to strike, […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 24, 2025 0 Comments
Top 5 Most Challenging and Rewarding Groomed Runs in the U.S. Do you love carving on fresh corduroy first thing in the morning? Do you live for sustained, top-to-bottom runs—the kind where you can push the speed, hop back on the lift, and do it again? If you answered yes to these questions, you may love groomers. To be clear and definite about what this ranking system entails, here are the […] Brains Greg Wedow | December 9, 2025 3 Comments
Potential Labor Strike Looms at Telluride Resort, CO, As Ski Season Begins On Saturday December 6 Telluride Ski Resort could be in for a bumpy start of the 2025-26 season, as the Telluride Professional Ski Patrol Association (TPSPA) has authorized a strike against Telluride (Telski). The potential strike comes as a result of their fight for a fair contract for employees after their last contract expired in August 2025. The TPSPA recently voted unanimously to authorize […] Industry News Luke W. Smith | December 5, 2025 0 Comments
SnowBrains Forecast: 2 Storms Will Dump Up to 15” of Snow on Colorado Resorts on Thanksgiving Weekend Source: maps.weatherbell.com The Rocky Mountains have received well below-normal snowfall so far this season, and Colorado is no exception. The snowpack across the Northern half of the state is currently at about 25% of normal, while the Southern half of the state is performing only slightly better, at about 65% of normal. The snowpack has suffered as a result of both […] Weather WeatherBrains | November 27, 2025 0 Comments
Voters in Telluride, CO, Approve Lift Ticket Tax to Pay for Gondola—Could Utah Do The Same? Earlier this month, voters in the town of Mountain Village, Colorado, overwhelmingly approved a 5% tax on lift tickets sold at Telluride Ski Resort to help pay for a replacement for the gondola that connects the town of Mountain Village to the town of Telluride, Colorado. A similar ballot measure failed in neighboring Telluride by less than 20 votes. The […] Industry News Zach Armstrong | November 24, 2025 0 Comments
SnowBrains Forecast: Snowy Sunday in Southwest Colorado This forecast was created at 1:00 a.m. PST on Sunday, November 23, 2025. A cutoff low-pressure system is moving from Southern California up to the Four Corners region on Saturday night. Winds will rotate counterclockwise around the low-pressure center, allowing southerly winds to advect a substantial amount of moisture from the Pacific into the Southern Rockies on Sunday morning. A […] Weather WeatherBrains | November 23, 2025 0 Comments
The 8 States Where You Can Heli-Ski Heli-skiing is a lifetime dream of countless skiers, the chance to fly over a sea of rugged, untouched and unmaintained mountains, scouting the perfect peak to land on. To venture deep in the depths of the mountain range exploring terrain otherwise impossible to reach. Then, run after run, skiing the greatest lines of your life, on thousands of feet of […] Deep Dive Zach Suffish | August 20, 2025 0 Comments
The 9 Most Expensive Daily Lift Tickets in the USA Last Season Three-hundred-dollars. 300 big ones. A week’s pay or more for many full-time laborers in America—workers in the very same ski towns that charge these exorbitant prices for a day lift ticket. How do these honest people afford to go skiing? Or do they? Related: Understanding Dynamic Pricing in the Ski Industry It’s happening; daily ski ticket prices are reaching unprecedented […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | May 12, 2025 30 Comments
SnowBrains Forecast: Southern Rockies Resorts Get Up to 18″ of Snow Today, But a Pattern Change Incoming Forecast Prepared at midnight MST, April 4, 2025 A storm moves across Southern Colorado on Friday and Friday night, producing snow across the Front Range and the San Juan Mountains but primarily hitting the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. This storm will close out one of the busiest weeks this year for the Southern Rockies. However, the outlook for April looks much […] Weather WeatherBrains | April 4, 2025 0 Comments
Colorado Ski Resorts Winter 2024-25 Closing Dates Spring has sprung, which means the 2024-25 resort ski season, unfortunately, has almost ended. Most Colorado ski resorts are closing on various Sundays throughout April, starting on the 6th and ending on April 27. This year’s May resort skiing will likely be at Arapahoe Basin, Breckenridge, Loveland, and Winter Park’s Mary Jane. Below are all Colorado resorts’ closing dates. Related: […] Industry News SnowBrains | March 21, 2025 0 Comments
Today’s Deepest Resorts—North America’s Top 5 Snowfalls on March 19 Meteorological spring is here, meaning winter is over—already. But that doesn’t mean it’s going to stop snowing. Related: 9 Deepest Snowpacks in North America This Weekend At the time of writing, these resorts across North America had the most snow in the last 24 hours. Others with bigger totals may still need to update their websites. All numbers were taken […] SnowBrains | March 19, 2025 0 Comments
The 11 Oldest Ski Gondolas Still in Use in North America Today Gondolas are a comfortable mode of aerial transport used to access alpine locations while being sheltered from the harsh elements. Similar in construction to an aerial ski lift, with the added protection of an enclosed cabin to hold in warmth and block out the wind. While new gondolas are being installed each year across North America for skiing, this article […] Brains J.T. Pulfer ll | February 10, 2025 7 Comments
SnowBrains Forecast: Active Pattern Ahead for Southern Rockies Forecast written 3:30 p.m. MDT November 23, 2024 Forecast Summary An active pattern is in store over the next few days as a weaker system moves through Sunday and then an atmospheric river Monday night through Wednesday. The first system that moves through will generally bring lighter snow to northern portions of Colorado. The second system will move in as […] Weather WeatherBrains | November 24, 2024 0 Comments
SnowBrains Forecast: Cutoff Low to Bring Upwards of 1-2 Feet of Snow to Southern Rockies Forecast Published 9:45 PM MDT 11/4/2024 Forecast Summary As the storm from this weekend continues to exit the region, our next system will dive in from the north during the day on Tuesday. As it does so, it will split off from the mean flow and become a cutoff low over the four-corners region. This will allow for moisture […] Weather WeatherBrains | November 4, 2024 0 Comments
SnowBrains Forecast: 6-18″ of Snow For Colorado Mountains Through Wednesday Forecast Published 9:45 PM MDT 10/28/2024 Forecast Summary A trough currently digging into the western U.S. will bring snow to the mountains of Colorado through Wednesday. Precipitation is already beginning to move into western portions of Colorado in the form of rain and snow but will increasingly turn into snow across mountain locations as colder air filters in on Tuesday. […] Weather WeatherBrains | October 28, 2024 0 Comments
Is Telluride Ski Resort, CO, Eliminating Free Passes for People who are 80+ Years Old? According to the Pew Research Center, pre-boomers, or Silent Generation, are between 78 and 96 years old and defined as people born between 1928 and 1945. According to the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA), that generation has the highest number of ski days. These pre-boomers have been able to keep participating thanks to medical advances, such as artificial hips and […] Industry News Gregg Frantz | October 3, 2024 0 Comments
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