Mountain Spy :: May 2024

There are some questions that everyone answering the phone at a mountain resort should be able to answer. What are your operating hours? Where do I meet for lessons? Where can I get rentals? You get the gist. Questions about grass skiing—whether it’s allowed or even what it is—are a bit more, shall we say, niche. While grass skiing has a rich history, it’s largely been an off-season activity for ski athletes and more popular in Europe, so it’s not necessarily something North American resorts get asked about often.

Of course, with various studies predicting a decrease in natural snow in the coming decades, grass skiing may find a new foothold in the climate-challenged future. Until that point (let’s do everything we can to prevent that snowless vision from coming to pass), grass skiing remains a way to keep enjoying gravity-fed fun in the mountains all summer long.