Inside every edition
- 1. The scoreboard. All 34 hills in one table: new snow, 7 day total, base depth, season total, and what is expected over the next days. Every hill gets the same size row.
- 2. The quality call. Inches are only half the story. Snow water readings from public SNOTEL stations and the week's temperatures tell you whether it skied light and dry or heavy and wet.
- 3. The little guy watch. A standing eye on the independents and the town hills: who is spinning, who caught the surprise storm, and where a lift ticket dollar still goes a long way.
The scoreboard: 34 hills, one table
New snow, base, and season figures are resort reported. Expected snowfall comes from National Weather Service forecasts. The first live table ships with the first edition, when the snow starts. Until then, here is every hill on it.
- Breckenridge
- Vail
- Keystone
- Copper Mountain
- Winter Park
- Steamboat
- Snowmass
- Beaver Creek
- Telluride
- Crested Butte
- Aspen Mountain
- Eldora
- Arapahoe Basin
- LovelandIndie
- PurgatoryIndie
- Buttermilk
- Aspen Highlands
- MonarchIndie
- Wolf CreekIndie
- Granby RanchIndie
- Ski CooperIndie
- SunlightIndie
- PowderhornIndie
- Echo MountainIndie
- SilvertonIndie
- Howelsen HillIndie
- Kendall MountainIndie
- Cuchara Mountain ParkIndie
- Chapman HillIndie
- Cranor HillIndie
- Hoedown HillIndie
- Lake City Ski HillIndie
- Lee's Ski HillIndie
- HesperusIndieClosed, with no reopening timeline. Listed without snow numbers while it stays closed.
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Editions publish Mondays and Thursdays once the storms start rolling, roughly late October to mid April. Join the list now and the first scoreboard of the season lands in your inbox.
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Built for the little guy
The destination resorts have marketing departments and apps. The little hills have a rope tow, a town behind them, and snow just as good. Colorado has 34 ski areas, and the smallest of them are the point of this brand: Chapman Hill in Durango, Cranor Hill in Gunnison, Lake City Ski Hill, Lee's Ski Hill in Ouray, Cuchara Mountain Park, and Hoedown Hill in Windsor are in this table because they exist and people love them, not as a novelty act. No resort pays us. No pass company owns us. More about us.
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Colorado Snow Intel is where Colorado skiers and riders check the snow: one scoreboard covering all 34 hills in the state, in their inbox every Monday and Thursday, from the first storm of fall to the last chair of spring. The readers are everyday skiers and the people who plan around them: pass holders picking a hill for the weekend, families watching the Front Range, and the loyal crowds at the small independent hills that most snow coverage skips.
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