Spring Skiing is here and there is great variety of terrain still open across the East: 26 ski areas are going to potential open this weekend. Some areas closed last weekend with a great amount of snow on the hill, unfortunately it’s hard to run lifts with few extra paying customer buying lift tickets. Anyhow this is a great contrast with last’s year anomaly disaster of 3. We have triple that number just talking about being open the following weekend.
With the hard freeze or snow in some regions in the last two April weekends, there was a freeze frame on the season which didn’t really offer real Spring Skiing with warm weather. Some ski areas have extended their planned seasons, some are offering great deals.
Here is what MadPat had tracked down in the previous seasons:
2013: 25*
2012: 3
2011: 16
2010: 5
2009: 9
2008: 15
2007: 23
* Managed to get a few confirmations since it was posted yesterday. Mont Chalco in Northern Quebec will be open for one last weekend. Unfortunately I couldn’t confirm the other northern area in Labrador : Smokey. All the other that were tentative have confirmed their opening this weekend. Mont Orford has definitely confirmed that Sunday is their last day of the season.
** Rain in the forecast for Eastern Quebec. Mont Comi and Le Valinouet aren’t opening tomorrow. Comi is planning to open on Sunday, while Le Valinouet is calling it a season with ton of snow left. 😦
LIST OF 25* SKI AREAS TENTATIVELY OPEN THIS WEEKEND
QUEBEC 11**
West (Laurentians, Townships, Abitibi)
Vidéo – April 20 (Saturday only – ski & Sugarshack)
Avila – April 21 (tentative weekend)* – ****
Orford – April 21 or not* (weekend)
Sutton – April 21 (Fri-Sun)
St-Sauveur – May 12 (tentative)
East (Québec City Saguenay and Gaspé)
Chalco – April 21*
Édouard – April 20 (Saturday only)
Miller – April 20, maybe next weekend (closed this weather due to forecast)****
Le Valinouet – April 21 (Fri-Sun)** (rain forecast)
Massif du Sud – April 21 (weekend –tentative)*
Comi – April 28 (weekends only) (Sunday only : closed due to rain on Saturday)**
Ste.Anne – April 28 (weekends only)
ONTARIO : 1
Blue – April 21, maybe more(Fri-Sun – tentative)(weekend only)*
NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR : 1
Smokey Mountain – April 21 (weekend only)***
NEW YORK : 2
Gore – April 21 (weekend)
Whiteface – April 21 (Fri-Sun – tentative)*
VERMONT : 5
Snow – April 21 (weekend only)
Stowe – April 21
Jay – May (tentative)
Sugarbush – May 5 (tentative) – daily until April 28
Killington – June (tentative) – daily until May 5
NEW HAMPSHIRE : 1
Wildcat – April 28 (Fri-Sun tentative and 27-28 – considered)* – ****
MAINE : 3
Sunday River – April 21 (weekend only)
Saddleback – April 28 (weekend only)
Sugarloaf – late April or more
PENNSYLVANIA : 1
Big Boulder : April 21 (weekend & snowpark only)
Ski Mad World’s weekly Eastern Closing 2013 posts:
Go skiing this weekend!!! – Eastern Closing Thread 2012-13 – Part 1
Eastern Closing Thread 2012-13 – Part 2
* edit : April 18, 8:30pm
** edit : April 19, 11:30am. Le Valinouet closing due to forecast. Comi, only on Sunday this weekend – same reason.
*** edit : April 19, 11:45pm. Smokey is open for one last weekend.
**** edit : April 20, 10pm & 11pm – Wildcat not opening beyond April 21
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