r/skiing • u/breadexpert69 • 16h ago
Anyone else already started planning their season?
Just booked lodging for my first week for the season in December. Could have probably gone earlier with November but want to play it safe.
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u/Select-Flow3180 15h ago
::kicks feet up on office desk::
::looks at exhibition lift at highlands 50 yards away::
I’m ready!
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u/gruffnutz 15h ago
Researching hard since before then summer holidays. But no I haven't booked anything...
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u/NoGround5150 13h ago
Flights, transfers and hotels booked for 2026.
Research and planning underway for 2027.
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u/elcoyotesinnombre 15h ago
Yep. Whistler already on the books for end of January. Will wait to judge snow for any other trips. Definitely need a Silverton trip this year since I didn’t get up there last season. Fingers crossed for good snow everywhere.
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u/roger_roger_32 15h ago edited 14h ago
End of January trip has flights booked; still figuring our lodging (everything is so damn pricey). I was planning on this being the first of 5 or 6 trips this season.
Realized end of January is still five months away.
Started eyeing those three-ish weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and wondering who’s gonna have decent snow, worthy of the hassle of flight/Airbnb/etc.
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u/whiskeyjamboree 11h ago
I got tired of this exact thing and moved to SLC in march. Got 26 days in before lifts stopped spinning.
For the coming season I bought new liners for my boots, a touring setup, will be doing UAC 101 and 201 early december, got hustle 10's in 188 for super cheap.
Full ikon pass and night session pass for Sundance However, theres a 50/50 on spending Xmas between Steamboat and Summit county CO, I dont need to plan ahead for this though.
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u/Porcupine-in-a-tree 10h ago
SLC too, technically Sandy. Skiing is what I do on my lunch breaks, I don’t need to plan for it and it’s the best thing ever.
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u/whiskeyjamboree 10h ago edited 10h ago
Hell yea, hot laps after the traffic has already died down.
We ended up in Holladay, a kind of dumpy duplex for under 2k, which gets me to soli/brighton in under 20 when there's no traffic.
While I dont have the freedom to do lunch, I only work 4 days and am off early enough to make it to brighton or sundances night sessions. Next year I plan to do full brighton pass with ikon add on.
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u/Apptubrutae Taos 15h ago
Yeah I’ve got Thanksgiving set (because why not), Jackson Hole in early Jan, Vail late Jan. Then whatever I’ll do spur of the moment.
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u/mysticswerlin 14h ago
Have 3 trips lodging booked. 1 needs a flight, not booked yet. Regular weekend trips not booked yet (too far for a day trip). A lot of places are starting to fill up. Didn't even get my first choice of lodging for 2 of the trips.
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u/Spillsy68 12h ago
I live in the Colorado mountains. I’m still enjoying golf, camping and hiking. Another couple of months before I dust off the skis and wax them up.
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u/deeman27 14h ago
If you’re going to popular places, you have to start planning ahead if you don’t want to pay out the ass for lodging. Made reservations, but it’s refundable just in case something better comes along or I change my mind.
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u/Classic_Crow5035 11h ago
I have flights booked and a rental car for December (not around the holidays), but no lodging yet.
For me, lodging is the most expensive part. So I'm putting it off.
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u/evelynsmee 15h ago
Blinks I already have December and January booked.
Goes wide eyed remembering didn't book the January flight yet.
Heavy breathing really need to book March.
Yeah yeah, "started" planning 😈
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u/ravenx92 14h ago
Studying for oec exam, two trips booked in Feb, local passes purchase, waxing down the quiver...
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u/ImDistortion1 13h ago
I have planned some weekends trips that I will just drive to without planning big trips like hotels and air fair. Even planned the local mountains I want to go to this winter. Should be a great winter!
I don't know about everyone else but every time I workout all I can think about is carving down the mountain lol.
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u/rramstad 13h ago
Depends on how you define planning.
As last season was getting close to the end, I was evaluating my gear and if things I knew I needed to replace were on sale, I bought them.
I kept a good eye on things through the summer as well and today I bought the last replacement / upgrade I need.
I have a spreadsheet that I update each season with destinations and overall concepts and plans, I do that typically near the end of the season for the current season, and I start the next season in the summer... so I've started that.
I have some vague concepts of places I definitely want to make it to this year... some classic favorites, some new places, some places I didn't make it last season.
A lot of the execution will depend on who has snow when, and in particular, if La Niña ends up being strong or weak. That's the sort of thing that won't really become clear until later.
Last season I ended on the early side for me (April 9th) but also started early (December 2nd) both because of conditions and because of other obligations... I had to coordinate around meeting up with a group to ski and also to coordinate around Dead & Co. at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Every season is a bit different.
My situation is both somewhat common and also a bit unusual in that I drive everywhere, so I have a bit more flexibility, I'm not dealing with plane flights. That said, I've learned that it's hard to chase pow, when the forecasts are good enough to really rely on, lodging is usually impossible, so I tend to nail things down around a week to three weeks out, give or take.
That said, I know which areas I like, and which ones go logically with other ones, and which are reasonable driving distances given the topography, weather, and quality of roads, so I can plan a bit later than most and still have a quality experience. Sometimes it comes down to who has cheap lodging for a given week.
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u/AgreeableEvent4788 13h ago
Yep, got everything except the last minute weekend spur of the moment trips booked and ready to go.
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u/bluejayfreeloader 13h ago
Father son trip to Banff in March.
Last two years I've missed big power days by a week or two when I booked in January/February when we went to jasper and big white.
Im looking forward to warmer temps in March :)
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u/ContrastingCanvas 13h ago
Yes, dates set, reservations made. Just looking outside my window waiting for snow.
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u/YourFavoriteJerry Hood Meadows 12h ago
Skiing is only an hour away for me, so I don't really take trips that require a lot of forethought, but I never stop planning. At the very least, I'm always looking for sales on gear upgrades.
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u/schwerdfeger1 12h ago
Booked the trip and bought new skis, bought pass last April.. So ready, but loving summer!
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u/TheMov3r 11h ago
Closing on a condo right next to Mount Snow this Friday so incredibly pumped I'm gonna live next to a ski resort this season!! I hit 65 days last season gonna try to stomp that record into oblivion this winter
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u/Disastrous-Curve-567 11h ago
Planning this season? That was done months ago. I've been trying to plan out my 26/27 season lol.
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u/Porcupine-in-a-tree 10h ago
I’m hiking under the chairlift right now. I’ll wax my skis in November and be ready to go. Not much planning needed besides that.
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u/paulllll 6h ago
started my pre-season workouts and watching review videos of gear I have no business eyeing.
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u/DeputySean Tahoe 5h ago
Yeah. I have a dozen ski resorts within a couple hours of me, one just twenty minutes. I'll go to them as much as I can.
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u/Henkdehunter 1h ago
Already booked for the second week of January, will probably book another week soon
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u/viktorvaughn_ 1h ago
I already booked five overnight trips to Maine last month when there was a July flash sale. The rest will be my classic day trips from Boston up to NH.
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u/mtnmillenial 13h ago
Yes! Booked flights and lodging for trip 1 today! Crested Butte Jan 20-25. Anyone going to be there during that window?
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u/DFVSUPERFAN 16h ago
If by "started planning" you mean "booked all the flights and hotels" then yes, yes I have.