Samantha Berman grew up in an East Coast ski family and is now SKI’s travel and resorts editor. Since joining the editorial team in 2003, she’s helped mold the brand’s coverage and share her years of experience visiting ski resorts and mountain towns across North America, the Alps, and beyond. She lives in Denver and spends winter weekends skiing Colorado’s Front Range, frequently with her three sons.
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Your first layer can be the difference between a standout day in the elements and a mediocre one
To kick off the ski season, a handful of resorts are selling crazy-inexpensive day tickets
For the past 50-plus years, our colleagues at SKI magazine have invited readers to weigh in on the best ski resorts—because no one’s as passionate as a skier praising their favorite hill. These ranked highest.
The Winter Park Express increases service, adds more seats, and lowers prices significantly to accommodate more skiers
SKI mag sat down with the resort’s CEO to dig into the ski area’s unique new directive
Winter has arrived with such a vengeance in the Andes that Portillo surpassed its seasonal snowfall average before opening day
The landmark decision rules that liability waivers can’t be used to protect ski areas from certain claims of negligence
Is the growing number of high-speed collisions leading to more criminal charges on the slopes?
The ski mountaineer left the door open to pursue the last four ski descents, but his timeline remains unclear
A new study sheds more light on the direct effects of climate change on the ski industry
A resort employee told her to down-load the lift when she was tired. Then lift operations shut down the gondola.
Rescue operations are underway after skiers triggered an avalanche on KT-22 terrain Wednesday morning
Powder Mountain will move to a model of real estate tied to private skiing as well as public access in 2024
A community ski hill in Northern California is under fire after sharing plans to erect a 20-foot-tall statue of the Virgin Mary
Arapahoe Basin will start spinning a lift on Sunday, October 29, marking the official start of the 2023–24 ski season
Beloved and historic Black Mountain will keep its lifts running this season while new owners are sought
Just a little something to get you stoked for the season. You're welcome.
The hardships faced by N.H.'s Black Mountain are shared by many small ski areas today
A private ownership group is set to acquire the iconic Wyoming resort later in 2023
The 2022–23 ski season was recently extended until August 6
Utah’s Department of Transportation released renderings of the finished product, and people are surprised
Bluebird Backcountry was a special community and will be sorely missed
James Crown was the patriarch of the family that bought the resort in 1985 and partnered with Alterra Mountain Company in 2018
Ironically, stronger, wetter, and warmer storms will shrink the snow line at many of the state’s most popular ski areas
Tahoe residents are fighting a plan to turn Homewood Mountain Resort into a semi-private resort, limiting community access to the slopes
The annual NSAA report shows that skiers flocked to the powder in a big way in 2022-23
The gondola is still in play, but a new tolling program in Big and Little Cottonwood Canyon could charge cars $25 to $50 to get to the resorts
After the death of their husband and father, the world felt irreversibly transformed. Skiing would offer a lifeline.
And it’s not the one in California that rhymes with Shmammoth, believe it or not
All but three on this list are still open, with more snow in the forecast
Reed Hastings is the latest mogul to enter the U.S. ski industry
Officials say Nobis died in a Cedar City, Utah jail cell
Silverton Mountain plans to build a second lift this summer
Dynamic pricing—charging more when demand is high—is to blame for the $309 single-day lift ticket at this resort
Snow levels at the California ski resort have already surpassed the 2021–22 mark—and it’s only January
It’s been a challenging season thus far for ski resorts in the Northeast
See where your favorite resort landed in the 2023 Ski Magazine reader survey
The results are in from the 2023 Ski Magazine reader survey! Did your favorite East Coast ski area make the list?
The eight-mile gondola connecting Salt Lake City to Alta and Snowbird would be the longest in the world
Utah-based Pacific Resorts Group has a new flagship ski destination to add its now six-resort portfolio
The company will cap daily ticket sales at all 37 North American resorts, but season ticket holders will not be impacted
A recent construction misstep in the high-alpine requires further U.S. Forest Service review
The highly anticipated 550-acre expansion into Bergman Bowl was slated to add 16 new trails and a high-speed lift
The 30 percent minimum-wage hike, as well as a plan for more affordable housing, was announced Monday
A handy primer on catching your favorite ski competitions, and when each one is scheduled throughout the Games
When your crew has differing abilities, choosing a resort with varied terrain is crucial
The access gate atop the Ninety-Nine 90 chairlift offered some of the easiest access to sidecountry terrain, which the resort argued was a big part of the problem