US 22-23 Ski Season Finally Near End

North America’s 22-23 ski season is finally due to end this weekend, 10 months after the first areas opened in the Midwest in October last year.

Timberline ski area on Mt Mood in Oregon (pictured above) is, as normal, the last area still open in North America but has announced it will end its 22-23 season on Sunday, 13th August.

Mammoth Mountain in California ended its 275-day long season on Sunday 6th, August, announcing plans to open for its 70th season, 23-24, on 10th November, in three months’ time.

The only other outdoor snow skiing and boarding on offer in august had been at Copper Mountain in Colorado (pictured above) where a terrain park was maintained for campers perfecting freestyle skills at the resort’s Woodward facility, but that too has now closed for 2023.

So currently the only snow sports possible in North America is within the Big SNOW indoor snowmaking facility in New Jersey.

However temperatures are already dipping to freezing on high slopes in Colorado where ski areas will aim to open for their 23-24 seasons in October, as will snowmaking specialists in the Midwest. Colorado’s Loveland ski area, one of the world’s 10 highest ski areas, has its annual countdown-to-the-start-of-snowmaking clock running on its website and aiming for the end of September.