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Bridger Bowl, MT, Pays Staff End-of-Season Bonus After Early Closure

Bridger Bowl Montana

After an early end to its season, Bridger Bowl in Montana is doing everything it can to take care of its employees.  Warm weather and poor snow conditions forced Bridger Bowl to end its season on March 22, 2026. To make up for the lost final weeks of work, employees at Bridger Bowl will be receiving an end-of-season bonus, helping […]

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Quinn Brophy | May 13, 2026
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Park City Mountain Resort, UT, Forced to Close Early, Ends Season on April 5

Park City Mountain Resort, UT, this week. The resort will close this weekend. | Photo: Facebook

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 […]

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Quinn Brophy | April 6, 2026
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Eagle Point Resort, UT, Ends 2025-26 Season After 86 Days

Eagle Point Resort

Utah’s Eagle Point Resort was forced to end its 2025-26 ski season on March 15 after a tough season for snow in the Beehive State. Eagle Point’s closure comes as resorts across Utah struggle to maintain skiable conditions for slushy spring laps. The resort located in Beaver, Utah, is the third resort to have closed for the season in the […]

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Quinn Brophy | March 22, 2026
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Timberline Lodge/Mt. Hood, OR to CLOSE Early for 1st Time in 10 Yrs.

The Palmer Snowfield, where summer skiing/riding happens, looking small as of today.

Legendary Timberline Lodge ski resort on Mt. Hood, OR will be closing early this season on August 2nd for the first time in decade. Timberline almost always stays open until the end of September (Labor Day) and has the longest season in North America by far. The last time Timberline closed early was on August 18th, 2005. Timberline averages over 400″ of snowfall per winter but this year they only got 297″. That lack of snow is what has lead to the early closure this year.

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | July 31, 2015
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17-Inch Storm EXTENDS Las Lenas, Argentina’s Season:

Las Lenas was going to close on September 8th due to a major lack of snow. They officially announced it, it was all over their website, and then it snowed. It snowed enough to change their minds and extend the season until September 15th, which is great. Usually, Las Lenas is open until October 15th, so this is still an extremely early closing. It’s been a rough year at Las Lenas. Yesterday and the day before Lenas got a storm that dropped 10 […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | September 2, 2014
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Las Leñas, Argentina to CLOSE This Saturday | Early Closing Due to Lack of Snow

Las Leñas ski resort in Argentina has had a brutal year. All of July was dry and warm. So warm in fact, that they were going to close the mountain due to lack of snow on August 9th. A storm rolled in on August 7th, dropped 60 inches on the upper mountain, and saved Las Leñas from […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | September 10, 2013
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