Resort Skiing

With the winning bid, Beijing, China, becomes the first city to host a Summer and Winter Games. But with only two official bids, it seems nobody wants to stage winter's premier athletic event.

After closing to the public for a few years, Echo Mountain in Colorado plans to start turning its lifts for everyone this season.

Dick Bass, who co-founded Snowbird and was instrumental in developing Vail and Beaver Creek, died Sunday in Dallas.

A while ago, we posted a video of this guy skiing a jaw-dropping line in Glacier National Park and it blew peoples minds. So we decided to find out a little more about him. By Leslie Hittmeier

What happens when $10 million is dropped into 130-acre, 230-vertical-foot Mt. Brighton?

Resort general manager says Saddleback needs the money in 2 weeks to secure its future.

Ski towns are changing. So are the skiers who live in them.

Mt. Baker general manager Duncan Howat wants you to enjoy the überdeep backcountry powder his resort
 is famous for—but only if you do so by his rules.

If I live to ski, does he have to?

Inspired by rally cars, some small and sporty rides turn the heat up on winter driving.

It meant eight hours on the road to get seven hours on the hill.

All the beta you need to enjoy this perfect summer skiing destination

Family-friendly, all-season style doesn’t have to cost as much as a condo. Here’s a trio
of affordably stylish and thoroughly rugged alternatives.

The base area was blasting the Kiss nugget “I Was Made for Lovin’ You Baby.” At offensive levels. Just like that, my ski-day buzz was dead.

The Powder Click photo camp, put on by Ski Magazine, is the perfect excuse to up your photo game while spending a week skiing in Chile.

"NASTAR is where most ski racers in America, including myself, were introduced to the thrill of going fast and competing on skis," says Ted Ligety, and that's what the partnership is designed to do.

Live Free and Ski founder talks about his nonprofit, and his vision to remove cost barriers for first-time skiers.

On sustaining 50 years of business off heli drops and pillow pops.

We were never hardcore skiers. Just a hardcore family.

Killington’s Bear Mountain Mogul Challenge and Sugarloaf’s Reggae Fest dominate the East Coast slopeside party scene.

From Pink Vail to Skiing With Heroes, on-snow charities give extra meaning to a day on the mountain.

All aboard the Winter Park Express, this skier experiences the reinvigoration of a Colorado ski train.

When pow fell and the craving hit, this skier turned to a local peak.

A margarita on a sunny deck is a ski-town rite of spring. Here’s a list of greats from our highly opinionated testers.

Time to revisit these ski-town lodges, where recent renovations mean things don’t look quite like they used to.

Former ski resort mogul Les Otten offers a peek at his latest project and his big plans for the Dixville Notch resort.

Now it has some of the East’s most lavish slopeside amenities. But to those who know it best, it’s still the hill that has no peer.

Get off the groomers and discover this luxury resort’s untapped expert terrain. The best part: You’ll have earned that cookie at the end of the day.

Weather guy Mark Breen is loving this winter as much as the rest of us. And he sees more of the same in the longterm forecast. Sorry about that, Western resorts.

The Stowe Derby began as a bet between two guys. Seventy years later, it’s one of Stowe’s signature winter events.

Colorado's Copper Mountain Resort is poised to win the hearts of a new generation of skiers by giving them what they really want: a kick-ass mountain.

Pro skier and two-time Olympic medalist Andrew Weibrecht skied with campers at Double H Ranch’s Adaptive Winter Sports Program.

In Alpine Meadows' Pacific Crest North Bowls, a little bit of effort leads to unlimited—and untracked—rewards.

The Obermeyer founder, and ski history (and yodeling) legend, talks ski pants, Gary Cooper, and the secret to life.

Is it surprising that the East produces so many great bump skiers? Not at all. Kearney looks forward to a new chapter, and offers a couple tips on how to rip in moguls.

With the highest vert in the East, Whiteface rocks. But in and around the home of two Winter Olympics, there’s a lot more than skiing to keep you entertained.

Where to ski, find ghost bears, and relish funky mountain culture along Colorado’s U.S. Highway 550.

Winter is back and Breckenridge is waiting for you! Enter now for your chance to win a 5 night stay Ski in/ski out with airfare, skiing and more!

We caught up with Mad River Glen's Eric Friedman, one of the industry’s least bullshitty public relations guys, for his take on how good the skiing is. For fans of natural snow, now's the time.

Take an afternoon break this season at these new on-mountain hot spots.

The F.I.S. Alpine World Ski Championships are coming to Beaver Creek, Colorado, for the first time since 1999. Time to break out the cowbells. America, at long last, is a ski-racing nation.

Join us at Smugglers' Notch Resort for our SKI Magazine Reader Appreciation Week, February 1-8, 2015.

What it’s like to be a visually impaired Paralympic ski racer.

Whether you fancy old-school skiing or sleek, modern resort life, this New England classic's got you covered.

Nipped at last week's World Championships, retiring Kearney battles gold-medalist Justine and the Dufour-Lapointe sisters.

This Canadian resort might be skidom’s best-kept secret. And with two new expansions, it’s also the biggest.

Four-time Olympian AJ Kitt will be at Okemo as competitors battle to qualify for Nastar Nationals in Aspen, CO.

Jay Peak has long been loved for its above-average snowfall. Now a blizzard of foreign capital has transformed it into a four-season wonderland. And the bottom line? Jobs where they’re needed most.

We bickered over what our kid would put on his feet. Until we realized that he wouldn’t be standing on them.

This Aspen Highlands extreme terrain is a rite of passage for any serious skier. Here’s how to do it well.

If it were hot and sunny all the time, it wouldn’t be ski season.

Okemo's new Sunburst enclosed sixpack has heated seats. Sign of the Apocalypse? Or just a sensible way to beat the Vermont winter cold?

Welcome everybody, to the home of the snow day.

We thought we were in it to win it. But perhaps we’ve already won.

Read them carefully and in full.

Better ski hard to earn the cuisine of the French Alps. Bon appetite.

By the time I buckle my boots, the people wearing Hefty bags are already skiing. They are having an awesome time.

In the wide-open spaces of Montana, a busy day is a chance to catch your breath and the local gossip.

Here’s the thing about those icy, flat slopes: They absolutely make you a better skier.

Pack the car the night before, wake at a ridiculous hour, layer long underwear under track pants, then pull away from the world of rustling palm fronds, bougainvillea, and perennial hibiscus flowers before L.A.’s 10 million or so other residents wake up and clog the roads.

Every week I limped my freshly ripped muscle fibers off the Eskimo Ski Club bus, then sometimes went straight to bed without dinner.

I thought I won it for being fast, a misconception my father did not dispute even though it would cost him thousands in race gear and entry fees over the next decade.


It was one of those unpredictable memory-making experiences that consistently happen when you’re a ski family.

It’s a wonder we didn’t end up with serious injuries to our wool-hat-clad heads.

I’d like to apologize to everyone in those liftlines whose skis I walked on.

We asked you for your honest feedback about resorts. Here are some off-the-wall comments.

The World War II vet, and subject of the movie “Unbroken,” brought hundreds of boys to Mammoth Mountain to ski, fish, and keep out of trouble.

These Colorado resorts turned millions of acres of diseased pines into something uniquely beautiful.

Test yourself on Summit County, Colorado’s steepest slope.

After transforming Jay Peak, the resort’s owners turn their sights on its sister-mountain. And again, foreign investors will pick up the tab.

One of the Northwest’s biggest ski mountains is determined to become a destination resort. Here’s how.

Living the ski lifestyle isn’t exactly easy for most busy parents. But where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Downsized SUVs offer the capacity of their beefy predecessors, but with less truck-inspired rides and better mileage. And meet Jeep’s new Italian cousin while you’re at it.

Test your mettle in this notoriously tough freeride zone—if you dare.

A few strategies for finding the best airfare to your next ski destination.

T-Bar Films co-founder talks making an inspirational film on a shoe-string budget.

How can a place so sprawling and immense also be so intensely spiritual? Call it the Whistler dichotomy. Or, like one writer, call it home and you’ll understand.

Test your skier IQ with this easy quiz.

Want to haul a family without the fuel penalty of a traditional SUV? New full-size AWD sedans look to smooth the way to the mountains.

Preston Smith guided the Beast from its birth to the age of conglomerates.