2020 Skiing Outlook

Our region provides an excellent variety of skiing and snowboarding – all within a reasonable drive. Our 2020 Skiing Outlook gives you a closer look at all five area resorts, and how each are developing protocols for dealing with the pandemic.

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Skiing Outlook 2020: Lookout Pass provides snowiest hill; cheapest prices

Thu., Oct. 22, 2020

The snowiest ski resort in the Inland Northwest is also the least expensive.

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Skiing Outlook 2020: Mt. Spokane’s family atmosphere beckons

Thu., Oct. 22, 2020

It’s always there standing over the Spokane region, beckoning skiers and snowboarders with its glistening slopes.

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Skiing Outlook 2020: New owners, energy for 49 Degrees North

Thu., Oct. 22, 2020

New owners have brought some new energy to 49 Degrees North.

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Skiing Outlook 2020: Big-mountain experience, Schweitzer expands terrain

UPDATED: Thu., Oct. 22, 2020

For a big-mountain ski experience, Schweitzer Mountain Resort near Sandpoint is the place.

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Skiing Outlook 2020: Challenging drops, likeable cruisers at Silver Mountain

Thu., Oct. 22, 2020

Two impressive peaks – Kellogg (6,300 feet) and Wardner (6,200 feet) – stand tall above the Silver Valley, grabbing onto passing storms and squeezing out the powder. In this sweet spot sits Silver Mountain Resort, featuring some of the region’s most challenging sustained drops, along with an array of likable cruisers.

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Skiing Outlook 2020: Ski Idaho 2020-21 season promising despite pandemic

Thu., Oct. 22, 2020

The Idaho Ski Areas Association, a.k.a. Ski Idaho, elected Bogus Basin general manager Brad Wilson president of the 18-resort collective at its annual membership meeting last month. Wilson, who has worked in the resort industry for 42 years and at ski areas for all but nine of them, has helmed Bogus Basin since November 2015.