This page has links to sites that report ski conditions and weather information. You can tell you're really a ski addict when you spend a lot of time on these sites trying to second guess where the best weather is going to be for your trip and which resort has the best snow.

The conditions sites are almost as good as going directly to a ski area web site and a whole lot faster if you are comparing resorts in the same area. Please note that some areas have more "liberal" reports than others. Out west, you need to have a minimum of 45" to open the expert terrain (any less and you should be using rock skis). Otherwise a two foot base is sufficient for intermediate skiing. In the east, with man made snow and less steep terrain you need a minimum of a 10-15" base for good low intermediate skiing. East coast resorts are reporting the results of snowmaking which is not the same all over the mountain or even across the whole width of a trail. When you get really good, you can interpret a resorts report to know exactly what they mean. Like knowing that "wet granular" really means that it is raining out!

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