From lift tickets to gear rental to ski lessons, the cost of skiing has been climbing in Utah and across the country, sending people looking for deals, sometimes even in Europe. People are looking to cut costs on skiing, Wewegama said, which for some means driving longer distances to smaller ski resorts and scouring the internet for deals. Cheaper day passes in Europe can look attractive to people who don’t hold season passes.
After a season of historic snowfall across the West, the nation’s ski areas logged a record 64.7 million skier visits for the 2022-23 season, up from the previous high of 61 million visits in 2021-22,.
It’s been the longest wait, their whole lives, in fact. But Race Lessar and Landen Ozzello are finally right where they want to be, on a snowy slope close to home, molding snow into a ski jump. Their local ski mountain just reopened. “I’m happy that it’s open for at least one year,” Lessar said.…