* Update, April 17, 2:00pm: Wash out Easter Weekend. Ski areas are looking at all the rain in the forecast and wondering about the weekend plans. Regardless of the huge amount of snow, some decided that they will not open for one last weekend at Easter.
So far these include:
Camp Fortune
Le Massif
St-Mathieu
Val d’Irène
Whiteface
Burke
Smuggs
Other decided to reopen today Wednesday on the last sunny spring day prior to wet Easter weekend. Miller moved it closing date to today, while Mad and Smokey haven’t made a call on this weekend.
Miller
Mad River Glen
Smokey
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Late Easter, Late Spring…snowpack is still deep in the higher altitudes and latitudes.
Source: Mount Mansfield Summit Station
A few notes about this weekend’s potential skiing country’s status.
1) Snow pack is still deep and still way above normal on Vermont’s highest mountain.
2) Forecast for this weekend is likely not sunny (to be polite) in many areas.
3) Spring weather is as important as snow for a ski hill to operate. Case and point, Smuggs just pulled the plugged due to the rainy weekend forecast.
Some have fixed closing dates regardless of the amount snow left on the trails: Stowe, Tremblant, Ste-Anne, Massif, etc. Some locals are restless on deep years like this one.
Other are pushing it as long as they can: Mad River Glen, Wildcat, Killington, St-Sauveur, Sugarbush, Sugarloaf, Sutton and Black NH.
After this weekend, this will be severely reduced due to all the ski resorts that were aiming for Easter weekend. Only the diehards will remain. So to borrow from another motto… “Ski It While You Can”
The numbers below would generally reflect on what is or was still open on Week 3, however Week 4 from last season was the same date as Easter Monday.
Numbers from previous seasons: Total / Eastern US
2019: 38 / 11
2018: 33 / 11
2017 : 16 / 7
2016 : 14 / 8
2015 : 10 / 7
2014 : 11 / 5
2013 : 8 / 4
2012 : 6 / 3
LIST OF 31 38 SKI AREAS TENTATIVELY OFFERING SKIING THIS WEEKEND
Only 12 areas spinning daily
Sorted regional by closing date
QUEBEC 20 24 (Daily 5)
Quebec West
Chilly – April 21 (weekend only)*
Chanteclerc – April 20 (Saturday only) ***
Vidéo – April 21 (tentative – Wed, weekend Fri-Sun only)**
Ste-Marie – April 21 (weekend ***Friday-Sunday only)**
Camp Fortune – April 21 (Thursday-Sunday only) *
Avila – April 22 (Friday-Monday only) **
Orford – April maybe one more day – not this weekend 21 22 (tentative – Friday-Sunday Monday only) * **
Owl’s Head – April 22 (tentative – Easter weekend only) **
Bromont – April 17 22 (Daily)**
Tremblant – April 22 (Daily)
Vallée Bleue – April 28 (Closed this weekend Friday-Monday only then one last weekend)***
Sutton – May 5 (tentative – Daily until April 22 then weekend only)
St-Sauveur – May 20 (Daily until April 28 22)**
Quebec East
Miller – April 17 20 (Wednesday Saturday only) *
Chalco – April 21 20 (open Saturday, tentative Sunday)***
St-Mathieu – April 20 (weekend only) *
Édouard – April 21 (Friday Saturday-Sunday only) ***
Le Massif – April 21 (Friday-Sunday only) *
Val d’Irène – April 22 (Friday-Monday only) *
Le Relais – April 18 22 (Daily)***
Ste-Anne – April 28 22 or more Closed this weekend (Friday-Monday only) **
Le Valinouet – April 28 22 28 (Thursday-Sunday only (next weekend) * ***followed tentatively by one final weekend)
Comi – April 28 (tentative this weekend Wednesday-Monday then weekend only)***
Massif du Sud – May 5 (tentative this weekend Friday-Monday then weekend only)***
ONTARIO : 2 (Daily 1)
Devil’s Glen – April 19 21 (Good Friday & weekend only)**
Blue – April 21 22 ***
NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR : 1
Smokey – April 21 14? NA ??? (Open Wednesday evening, tentative weekend only)* ***
NEW YORK : 1
Whiteface – April 21 (tentative – weekend only)
VERMONT : 5 6 (Daily 4) *
Mad River Glen – April 20 21 (Wednesday, Saturday tentative weekend only)
Burke – April 21 (weekend only)
Stowe – April 21 (Daily)
Jay – May 5 (Daily – tentative)
Sugarbush – May 5 (Daily – tentative)
Killington – June (Daily – tentative)
NEW HAMPSHIRE : 2 (Daily 1)
Black – April 21 (tentative – weekend only)
Wildcat – May 5 (tentative – closed this weekend – weekend only)**
MAINE : 2 (Daily 1)
Sunday River – April 28 (weekend only)
Sugarloaf – May 5 or more (Daily until May 5)
* Update, April 17, 2:00pm & 2:20pm
** Update, April 18, 1:45pm, 2:45pm & 6:40pm
*** Update, April 19, 1:05pm & 2:00pm
Ski Mad World’s weekly Eastern Closing 2019 post:
Eastern Closing Thread 2019 …No fooling around: Skiing is an April sport – Part 1
Eastern Closing 2019 : April’s snow showers brings late Easter skiing or May possibly be more – Week 2
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