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The U.S. National Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame has announced its Class of 2026, recognizing nine contributors including Olympic champion Ted Ligety, ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson, Paralympian Stephani Victor, photographer Scott Markewitz, and ski-industry leaders, innovators, and historians. The inductees will be formally honored during the Snowsports History Celebration in Ogden, Utah, on April 10, 2027.

West Virginia’s Corridor H highway has steadily shortened and simplified the trip from Washington and Northern Virginia to Tucker County’s ski areas, including Timberline Mountain, Canaan Valley Resort, and White Grass. DCSki looks at how each completed section has changed the region’s place on the Mid-Atlantic ski map, while unfinished segments promise further improvements through 2034.

DCSki examines four Mid-Atlantic ski areas that have inspired years of reader speculation about untapped potential: Blue Knob, Canaan Valley, Laurel Mountain, and Winterplace. Drawing on their terrain, snowfall, infrastructure, ownership, and operating constraints, the feature considers what improvements might help each mountain deliver more of what skiers already value.

Thinking about taking a ski trip to Europe? DCSki examines what Mid-Atlantic skiers should expect in the Alps, from enormous interconnected ski networks, trains and gondolas, and different trail markings to off-piste hazards, village life, mountain dining, and the practical considerations of cost and logistics.

In this DCSki Interview Series installment, Woody Bousquet discusses his family’s role in founding and operating Bousquet Ski Area in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, his own lifelong connection to skiing, and the inventions and stories that shaped the area. He also shares how his collection of vintage patches, maps, brochures, and other memorabilia helps preserve the history of Bousquet and other lost ski areas.

From his first turns on Blue Knob’s ice in 1967 to retirement winters in Utah, Jim Kenney has built a skiing life around family, friends, and a willingness to adapt. Drawing on more than 25 years of his DCSki stories, this retrospective follows his travels, revisits memorable days, and explores how he has kept enjoying the slopes into his seventies.

DCSki has completed the most ambitious upgrade in its 30+ year history, bringing improvements to nearly every corner of the site. From a redesigned home page and Forum to new personalized, weather, resort, and discovery features, there’s plenty to explore. Here’s a tour of the new DCSki.

In this firsthand report, DCSki Columnist Robbie Allen recounts a three-day August ski trip to Chile’s Tres Valles resorts outside Santiago. Valle Nevado, El Colorado, and La Parva offer expansive Andes terrain, strong snow, reasonable lift prices, and an old-school lift experience, while Santiago, Valparaíso, and Chile’s wine country add plenty to the adventure between ski days.

What do skiers remember decades after their local ski hill disappears? Drawing on nearly 1,600 comments submitted to DCSki’s Lost Ski Areas profiles, this story explores the experiences that stayed with generations of Mid-Atlantic skiers: learning to ski, working first jobs, riding rope tows, gathering in small lodges, and growing up alongside neighborhood ski hills that have long since vanished.

Masks, reservations, capacity limits, and parking-lot lunches made the 2020-2021 winter unlike any Mid-Atlantic ski season before it. Six years later, DCSki looks back at how resorts and skiers navigated the pandemic and how that period accelerated the shift toward advance ticket sales, mobile passes, online transactions, and other practices that remain with us today.

Before webcams, navigation apps, digital lift passes, and group texts, Mid-Atlantic skiers relied on snow phones, paper trail maps, printed directions, and carefully chosen meeting places. This retrospective recalls the uncertainty and occasional adventure of skiing before the smartphone while considering how modern technology has made trips safer, easier, and better documented.

Every winter, Mid-Atlantic skiers scrutinize thermometers and webcams, wondering why the snowguns are silent at their favorite resorts. This feature story steps into the snowmaking control room to explore the weather, water, staffing, financial, and operational calculations behind those decisions — and why resorts facing seemingly similar conditions sometimes make very different calls.