Three skiers were killed and four more injured on Saturday, Oct. 17 when an avalanche swept a group of seven backcountry ...

Did you hear? It’s snowing in the West. Ski season is near—we might even have lifts spinning by the end of the month. With all of this excitement in the air, it’s time to think seriously about your ...

The Climate Prediction Center has predicted a 100 percent chance of El Niño until at least the January to March timeframe There is a greater than 90 percent chance of a “very strong” El Niño. These ...

There are some ski trips you can pull off on a whim. Japan is not one of them. Between the long flight, the time change, the logistics of getting around, the language barrier, and the fact that you’ve ...

SKI’s racing expert, Peggy Shinn, reports on Mikaela Shiffrin’s 2026-’27 plans, including her intention to compete in fewer slaloms and more GS and super-G races this winter. Shiffrin also wants to ...

At times I felt more like a head coach than a ski resort employee, but it's just part of the job.

For the diehard skier, late summer and fall are preludes to winter, nothing more. As the days grow shorter and the temps drop, it’s time to dust the cobwebs off equipment, hit the squat rack with ...

If you want to know where skiing is headed, watch where the major ski resort corporations are spending their money. This winter, Ikon Pass parent Alterra Mountain Company is investing more than $350 ...

Are skiers ever not talking about snow? It begins with the analysis of long-range winter forecasts and ends with tallying still-spinning lifts and where you can keep skiing into summer. The fact that ...

With September literally knocking on the door, a handful of North American ski resorts have already gotten a preview of winter, with snow dusting their highest elevations over the weekend. From ...

After a five-day bushwack through endemic cloud forests and heather, Edison Kule’s neon green Dynafits click into place. Turn by turn, he descends down one of Africa’s last intact equatorial glaciers, ...