DCSki Newsroom

From his first turns on Blue Knob’s ice in 1967 to retirement winters in Utah, Jim Kenney has built a skiing life around family, friends, and a willingness to adapt. Drawing on more than 25 years of his DCSki stories, this retrospective follows his travels, revisits memorable days, and explores how he has kept enjoying the slopes into his seventies.

Higher gasoline prices could reshape ski plans for Mid-Atlantic families this winter, raising the cost of day trips and mountain vacations as broader inflation pressures squeeze recreation budgets. DCSki looks at how those pressures could affect driving decisions, western ski travel, and resort visitation.

For more than four decades, investigators have sought answers in the disappearance of eight-year-old Cherrie Mahan, who vanished near her western Pennsylvania home in 1985. DCSki revisits the case because of its distinctive clue, a van painted with a mountain and skier mural, and the renewed appeals and investigative activity reported in 2026.

In this firsthand report, DCSki Columnist Robbie Allen recounts a three-day August ski trip to Chile’s Tres Valles resorts outside Santiago. Valle Nevado, El Colorado, and La Parva offer expansive Andes terrain, strong snow, reasonable lift prices, and an old-school lift experience, while Santiago, Valparaíso, and Chile’s wine country add plenty to the adventure between ski days.

DCSki has completed the most ambitious upgrade in its 30+ year history, bringing improvements to nearly every corner of the site. From a redesigned home page and Forum to new personalized, weather, resort, and discovery features, there’s plenty to explore. Here’s a tour of the new DCSki.

As the 2026-2027 season approaches, DCSki examines the equipment trends reshaping skiing and snowboarding, including BOA ski boots, fast-entry snowboard bindings, narrower carving skis, hybrid touring bindings, more advanced helmets, and lower-impact outerwear. The story also considers which innovations solve real problems for Mid-Atlantic skiers and snowboarders, and which are simply optional upgrades.

Camelback Resort is adding three trails for the 2026-2027 winter season, marking its first terrain expansion in 30 years, while also introducing new mountainside food and beverage options. Nearby Blue Mountain Resort is installing 315 LED trail lights and upgrading portions of its snowmaking infrastructure.

What do skiers remember decades after their local ski hill disappears? Drawing on nearly 1,600 comments submitted to DCSki’s Lost Ski Areas profiles, this story explores the experiences that stayed with generations of Mid-Atlantic skiers: learning to ski, working first jobs, riding rope tows, gathering in small lodges, and growing up alongside neighborhood ski hills that have long since vanished.

Wisp and Wintergreen are offering discounted passes, transferable lift tickets, and free beginner programs as part of their Mission Affordable initiative for the 2026-2027 ski season.

Masks, reservations, capacity limits, and parking-lot lunches made the 2020-2021 winter unlike any Mid-Atlantic ski season before it. Six years later, DCSki looks back at how resorts and skiers navigated the pandemic and how that period accelerated the shift toward advance ticket sales, mobile passes, online transactions, and other practices that remain with us today.