You may be entitled to compensation.
This feels like deja vu only in reverse. Just stick with me here. Back in November, Mammoth Mountain was primed and ready to be the first resort in California to start spinning lifts. The original opening day was scheduled for November 14, 2025, but when an expected storm didn’t drop temps or snow at low enough elevations, the resort opted to push the season kickoff by two days. When things still didn’t pan out over the next 24 hours, they pushed things back again and finally started the season on November 20, 2025.
The delay wasn’t earth shattering in the grand scheme of things, but when you’re antsy for your first turns of the season (or you booked lodging and lift tickets long in advance with no way of switching up that AirBnB reservation), pushing the season back one week stings. Little did we know that the roller coaster of starting a season at one of the western U.S.’s largest resorts was just an ominous warning for the season to come.
Fast forward almost five months to the day and jump over to Arizona Snowbowl, where the same thing is playing out in reverse.
On Monday, the resort announced a new storm in the forecast was going to give them two more days of spring skiing. Then, on Tuesday, the eve of their new closing day, they announced the storm provided enough to keep things going a full week past the original April 12 closing day.
“Have you been victimized and lied to by a guy named Kyle,” the video announcement says. Kyle was the guy bringing the good news on Monday, for the record. “Well, you’re entitled to compensation. And by compensation, I mean four extra days of skiing and riding.”
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If we’ll toy with the idea that a on-again-off-again start to Mammoth’s season was a sign of things to come, maybe we can all be eternal optimists that Snowbowl’s on-again-off-again season’s end is the ski gods telling us next winter’s going to be one for the books.
One can hope.
