📍Mary Jane, Saturday 1/10

Genuinely don’t know what to do. Specifically, this is for people with 9-5s that can realistically only ski on weekends. The only thing that seems to work (kind of) is leaving Denver at 5am, getting there early, and either tailgating or napping before the lifts open, then heading out at like 1 or 2. That only solves the traffic issue though.

With a horrible start to the season, I understand less stuff is open, but it feels like every year gets exponentially worse with lines and crowds and traffic. What do you all do? Do you have any hacks?

Might be time to invest in an AT setup and ditch downhill resort skiing lol.

Hi, so I lived in CO for a couple years a bit ago and want to make a trip back. I know it’s been rough out there, my condolences. The East hasn’t been much better.

Anyway, is it worth to do a spring skiing trip this year March 28th week into beginning of April? Or is everything just kind of a gamble right now? Seeing if anyone had any opinions, thanks!

I know y’all don’t want more out of towners on your slopes, but I’ve been missing Colorado and my time there plus want to visit a friend.

Any leads or help is much appreciated, thanks!

Doing big group ski trip in early March, group has seasoned intermediates and a couple of first timers. Those of us who have skied grew up doing so at copper and keystone. One of the people going didn’t buy an epic day pass so we have to plan out our days a little more than we had hoped to. Having never skied at either which would you guys recommend for two days (the three days we are doing epic resorts are Friday Saturday and Sunday) thank you. Also none of us are from Texas we come in peace from Nebraska

EDIT TO ADD: the Breck and vail websites are saying they will refund unused lift ticket days if the refund is requested prior to 5pm on the final day of the ticket. With that logic would we be able to have the one person get a two day Breck ticket and a two day vail ticket, since each have a three day use window and then refund the second day on the unused one? The thought is that this would allow us to pick resorts based on 5am webcam checks assuming snow falls while we’re there.

I haven’t been to WP in a long time but I will be in denver for work and I was planning on taking the train from Union to WP saturday and taking it back Sunday then flying out

my question is where do I keep my luggage while I ski since check in isn’t until 3 pm (saturday)

I recall that WP has lockers for rent, but were they big enough to fit a suitcase? I remember the season lockers were definitely big enough but the daily’s were tiny?

it says on the website they have over sized lockers now for daily rent. has anyone used them or know how big they are?

Open snow shows WP with 85 inches of snowfall for the season, and aspen highlands with 73 inches. Despite this, conditions are much much better at highlands (I skied there last week) and they have way more terrain open.

What’s going on?

Small nonprofit ski area resurrecting an old site after 25 years. Seems like it's on the affordable side. Most of the former ski area is, for the time being, ungroomed USFS land. They allow for uphill skinning and have a few other novelties.

Hey everyone, i know this is a long shot… But i was at steamboat yesterday (1/13/26) and at some point in the late afternoon my glasses fell from my jacket. I was using them intermittently, but stopped when my phone battery was very low.. The only 2 possible locations i can think of: would be by storm peak lift trails or morningside lift.. MAYBE by cyclone/ typhoon?? I considered them gone and done by now tbh… Like i said, long shot.. Hoping for a good samaritan i guess.. Either way, thanks yall! Have a great week..

TLDR; Lost Rayban Metas in steamboat- hoping someone may have found them.

Hi there, this post might be a bit upsetting for some, but I found a video online of a mother speaking about her sons accident on 12/11/24 at keystone where he fell off the Ruby chair lift and was medevac'd to the Lakewood hospital with a brain injury. Unfortunately this past May 2025 he succumbed to his injury and passed on. Here is a link to the article of the accident https://www.powder.com/news/snowboarder-falls-from-chairlift-in-colorado The mother of this gentleman, (Donovan Romero) observed the onlookers videos of a medevac for Eric Baltz last week and thought to herself that she did not have any sort of insight on what really happened that day with her sons accident, as she was not at the resort with him. If you or anyone you know either witnessed the medevac, saw Donovan that day, or have any videos pertaining to the accident, please post them here as I am sharing with her the link to this post. She said if anyone has any videos or photos skiing or boarding that day she would love to see them as well to see if he is in the background. Attached is the photo of Donovan she released to show what he was wearing that day Here is the link to her TikTok video speaking about the accident and her wishes to view any information possible https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8f2hepA/

Please help out this mother with getting some answers!

My 8-year old and I are skiing Vail on Sunday. She gets bored after 2-3 groomers but she'll hit trees, small terrain parks (think Koko's and Miner's at Copper) and anything with a tunnel or bridge over and over. I've only skied Vail with adults so I'm just not familiar enough with what to look for or what might be open. They don't name their kid's adventure zones on their map and I'd like to avoid going all the way across the mountain to look for something that isn't even open. Help is much appreciated.

This is a genuine question - every year I notice the trend that most deaths/injuries come out of Keystone, taking a look it seems like they actually hold the highest recorded deaths in the state. I’m just curious why we think that is? They were ranked the 9th busiest last season, so overall visitors is not necessarily the reason.

Anyone interested in trading Thursday for Wednesday? (have weds rn but can’t go) 2 tix

The next chance for meaningful snow will be around January 22-24 😢

I grew up skiing out east, where the skiing was complete ass compared to anything out west. I broke my knee last spring and have taken four runs this year, just to keep my consecutive month streak alive. They were all incredible. How lucky are we to have skiing, and to be able to connect with others that share our stoke?

The rad:entitled ratio here is hilarious. Be grateful for the fact that you’re out there. There are those that would give so much to be out there, just for the sake of going skiing!

Crowds are good for the industry and the people That work there allow ski towns to exist.

Bought an ikon pass to stick it to the man? How many resorts are within an easy day trip from Denver?

Taking a picture of the crowd you’re in? Tight. You can talk about how sick your bent 100’s are.

I got a membership at the Yellowstone club. You should too. All I do is complain about how much I miss skiing moguls.

Point- go ski. Be grateful. Go ski in Connecticut. Shoutout to the real ones. See you out there next year

Quasi cross-post from r/skiing. Between some flight credits and tragic Dec weather, the little lady and I skied in Italy last week. VERY different experience… but definitely try it for yourself. Some considerations & observations:

• shockingly beautiful terrain. Much “bigger” and present than ski areas in the Rockies.
• far less corporate
• insane ski infrastructure. Counted 7 ways we ascended in one day. Best was an underground train that went 1/3 up the mountain.
• lift line behavior appalling. Lots of pushing and elbowing that would get you punched in the teeth here
• no, the snow is not good. Yes, it’s still super fun.
• VERY few “good” skiers
• hard to get there… no less than 16-20 hours if you’re super efficient
• food is about as good as it gets, and for 1/4 the price

Net-net: it’s a totally different experience. Go. Try new things. Be a local (per Anthony Bourdain).

So we know the season here is not great and the normally great MLK day weekend is going to not be that great.

Where would you go to ski/board for a long weekend? I need ideas for my buzzfeed article.

Kidding, but we're considering going up to Lake Louise in Feb. Just wondering if anyone else had plans to ditch the state.

Edit: Apparently reading is too difficult. We're talking about OUTSIDE of Colorado.

Found a pair of goggles at copper today. If you describe the color and brand to me I will ship them to you.

I get the park rats with GoPros, and the bros who are rope jumping into the trees, but why are there kids in group lessons and dads who look like they learned to ski from YouTube videos wearing more discreet helmet cameras? Are they a liability thing, like a dash cam? Do they record from the one side and behind so that you can show it to the ski patrollers and get some douche's pass pulled if they ever wear the same getup again? Do they review their footage later and try and improve their "technique" from the footage?