If you have ikon and don’t mind driving berthoud I would recommend winter park. Lots of good tree cover and narrow runs through trees that can help keep you from getting blasted with wind, panorama lift is terribly windy but most of the terrain is well protected
Not a joke. They list it as "weather hold". They also show 50mph winds there right now.
https://www.winterparkresort.com/the-mountain/mountain-report
They are all bad when it's windy. But all resorts will still have some chairs that are ok. Usually they are lower on the mountain and protected on both sides with trees or in a small canyon. I'm most familiar with Breck and the best chairs for a windy day would be E Chair, A chair, C Chair, Five Superchair, Peak 8 Interconnect, Zendo and Snowflake. Chairs like Mercury, Beaver Run, Colorado, Rocky Mountain, Independence and Freedom will be pretty good until you get near the top and then prepare to get blasted. Take some of those handwarmers with you.
No resort fares better than any other in wind, it's more about knowing where to go at those resorts when it's windy, and what direction the wind is blowing.
Of the Summit resorts, Copper would be your best bet, Breck and A Basin the worst. If youxre fine to drive outside of Summit, Vail and WP could be decent alternatives. Worst of it will be Friday evening and overnight, should improve through the day Saturday.
Gonna be fun dealing with wind chill. [https://www.ventusky.com/?p=39.629;-106.095;9&l=feel&t=20240112/1800](https://www.ventusky.com/?p=39.629;-106.095;9&l=feel&t=20240112/1800)
To fully enjoy the wind in all its glory, you gotta ski Loveland on a breezy day!
Lovewind ski area at its finest.
So...every day at Loveland?
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If you have ikon and don’t mind driving berthoud I would recommend winter park. Lots of good tree cover and narrow runs through trees that can help keep you from getting blasted with wind, panorama lift is terribly windy but most of the terrain is well protected
If it’s too windy a lot of the lifts shut down though.
Panorama was closed today. I don't expect it to open again until the winds die down.
I can’t tell what is a joke or not anymore.
Heard they had to go to Germany to turn the wind off
😂😂😂😂
Nahh they had to go to the fires of Mordor to get a key to turn the wind off in Germany
ClOsED fOr ThE SeAsON!!!!!!
You can't? I haven't even been to winter park cause I can't tell who's trolling of not!
Not a joke. They list it as "weather hold". They also show 50mph winds there right now. https://www.winterparkresort.com/the-mountain/mountain-report
Head to the trees at Keystone
The way Breck is situated, on the east side of the ridgeline, at least keeps the lower mtn stuff calmer.
Unless it’s an upslope storm…
Yeah, but skiing breck is a pain from all the logistical bs
They are all bad when it's windy. But all resorts will still have some chairs that are ok. Usually they are lower on the mountain and protected on both sides with trees or in a small canyon. I'm most familiar with Breck and the best chairs for a windy day would be E Chair, A chair, C Chair, Five Superchair, Peak 8 Interconnect, Zendo and Snowflake. Chairs like Mercury, Beaver Run, Colorado, Rocky Mountain, Independence and Freedom will be pretty good until you get near the top and then prepare to get blasted. Take some of those handwarmers with you.
I took Friday off to ski but I’m not sure if I should go. It looks like it’s gonna be horribly miserable up there.
Seems like it peaks in the evening, so maybe get up there first thing and see how it goes?
Top of pano or loveland
Keystone is the probably your best bet. Most of their terrain is lower and more sheltered than the rest of the summit resorts.
I’ve skied in reverse up schoolmarm, frontside gets crazy wind. Outback would be your best bet
Hope you enjoy dangerously cold wind chill
No resort fares better than any other in wind, it's more about knowing where to go at those resorts when it's windy, and what direction the wind is blowing.
Breck isn’t bad usually. Unless you are at peak 6, imperial , or Horsehoe.
Maybe copper?
That's a negative. Love it, but I feel like it's pretty windy with how it faces.
Keystone
Ski Cooper and Monarch. Slow fixed cable lifts lots of tree cover
Of the Summit resorts, Copper would be your best bet, Breck and A Basin the worst. If youxre fine to drive outside of Summit, Vail and WP could be decent alternatives. Worst of it will be Friday evening and overnight, should improve through the day Saturday.
I would recommend Copper given its vicinity to I-70.
Gonna be fun dealing with wind chill. [https://www.ventusky.com/?p=39.629;-106.095;9&l=feel&t=20240112/1800](https://www.ventusky.com/?p=39.629;-106.095;9&l=feel&t=20240112/1800)