
Solitude
Discover uncrowded slopes and perfect powder in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Features 82 runs across 1200 acres European-style village and legendary Honeycomb Canyon.
Discover uncrowded slopes and perfect powder in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Features 82 runs across 1200 acres European-style village and legendary Honeycomb Canyon.
Solitude sits at the head of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Utah's Wasatch Range, spread across 1,200 acres (486 hectares) with 82 runs. The base is at 7,990 ft (2,436 m) and the summit at 10,490 ft (3,197 m), a vertical of 2,500 ft (761 m). Intermediates lead at 43%, followed by 30% advanced, 21% expert and just 6% beginner, so the mountain leans towards confident skiers. Nine chairlifts serve the mountain, including the Eagle Express six-pack, and the resort sits beside Brighton, with the two sharing the SolBright pass.
Honeycomb Canyon is the headline, a long valley behind Eagle Ridge that holds most of the resort's bowl skiing and is reached mainly by the Summit Express, with the Honeycomb Return quad bringing skiers back out. Headwall Forest adds steeper, tree-filled lines for advanced and expert skiers. The Powder Horn II quad and Eagle Express six-pack both reach the top of Eagle Ridge, while the Apex Express serves intermediate runs and the Moonbeam Express feeds the beginner terrain below. The SolBright run loops from the top of Summit down to the Sunrise lift to link across to Brighton. Solitude suits strong intermediates and advanced skiers who want steeps, glades and powder.
Solitude's season typically runs 20 Nov 2026 to 23 May 2027, roughly 184 days on snow. Check the live conditions before locking in your dates.
Daily snow reports at Solitude go back to 2010, 17 winters on the books. Open the record to compare winters, lifts and piste.
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Two days at Sölden, two races decided by a hundredth somewhere on the podium, and one very quick Brazilian. Lucas Pinheiro Braathen led from the first run to win the men’s World Cup opener by 0.48 seconds, with Loïc Meillard second and Marco Odermatt third. River Radamus charged from 15th to fourth on a rutted course, and Britain’s Freddy Carrick-Smith banked his first World Cup points. Braathen still hasn’t lost a giant slalom since Olympic gold.

The Alps are about to swap mild, sunny October weather for something far more wintry. A cold front arrives Tuesday, and SnowStash forecasts have Monterosa Ski out in front with 64 cm over 14 days, ahead of Blatten Belalp (55 cm) and Verbier (43 cm). The snow line should fall below 2000 metres by Wednesday night, and glaciers across Switzerland, Italy and Austria are in line for the best of it. The wind will have a say too.

A large avalanche struck near Laguna del Inca adjacent to Ski Portillo on Saturday afternoon, killing four people and injuring four others. The group were day visitors mountaineering in the backcountry after reportedly being warned about elevated avalanche risk by resort staff.

Europe’s ski season is open, technically. After a record-warm summer, glaciers in Austria, Switzerland and Italy are running a few pistes apiece, Sölden, Stubai and Kitzsteinhorn started late, Titlis has pushed back to 24 October, and Zermatt reopens a few lifts on 14 October after more than two months shut. Finland’s Levi and Ruka are skiing on stored snow. Here is what is open, and what you actually get at each.

Zermatt is having another crack at a World Cup downhill, and this time nobody has to cross a border. Around 13 million Swiss francs is going into rebuilding the Gornergrat piste, including a jump fed by a roughly 300-metre in-run across the roof of the Gornergrat Railway gallery, with the Matterhorn lined up behind it for the TV cameras. First men’s race is pencilled in for March 2028, pending FIS homologation.

Lake Tahoe’s highest base elevation is paying off early: Mt. Rose has started making snow for 2026-27 after the first flurries and a cold snap. The Nevada resort is backing it with nearly US$2 million in upgrades, including a replacement snowmaking main line, a new PistenBully groomer and restraint bars on every lift. Opening day is yet to be confirmed, though Heavenly and Northstar are already eyeing 20 November.

Utah is still building flat out. For 2026-27, Powder Mountain opens a steep new Skytrac chair into more than 1,000 acres of advanced terrain, Deer Valley adds 200 acres on Hail Peak, Sundance gets a new quad and Park City adds a gondola from its new parking structure. Snowmaking is expanding almost everywhere, Eagle Point stays closed after the Cottonwood Fire, and the 2034 Games are setting the pace. Here’s what’s new, resort by resort.

Mt Hutt is getting busier, and its base lodge is about to catch up. NZ$12 million goes into a heated sun deck roughly three times the current size (430 m² to 1,300 m²), plus a new toilet block, heated steps down to snow level, extra storage and a new food and beverage outlet. Building starts after the 2026 season, with everything due for winter 2027.
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