Is this ski season cursed? All signs pointed to a great comeback season—a predicted La Niña, vaccines to tackle Covid, and a rise in unlimited season passes. But halfway through January, every local ski area suffers from some form of calamity.
First the snow failed to materialize in November; Crystal Mountain sped past its hoped mid-November opening without enough of the white stuff, and Stevens couldn’t make their planned December 3 debut. But snowflakes eventually fell, and the Washington Cascades currently sit close to 100 percent of normal snowpack.
But Stevens Pass had 99 problems, and the delayed snowfall was but one. The ski area and its parent
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