As Lee Canyon prepares to open the West Bowl terrain pod, MCP officials are already scoping out the tantalizing 2,000 vertical feet soaring above it ...

This is Purgatory’s 2025-26 trailmap, which does not show the terrain expansion opening far looker’s left for winter 2026-27. The approximate line of the new lift, which will land near lifts 1 and 6, ...

Nub’s Nordic map also shows a pretty cool overhead of how all the lifts match up with a topo map: ...

Lift count: 15 total (5 high-speed quads, 6 fixed-grip quads, 1 triple, 1 poma, 1 ropetow, 1 carpet) Powder Mountain: 9 (3 high-speed quads, 2 fixed-grip quads, 1 triple, 1 poma, 1 ropetow, 1 carpet) ...

Everyone’s searching for skiing’s soul. I’m trying to find its brains.

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored by Mountain Gazette - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. It’s a map dot perched improbably in the nation’s southwest pocket, in ...

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