For those of you who must satisfy the fix soon and are willing to get on an airplane to do it (this is the line I draw when being picky about skiing), I strongly recommend Whistler. 90 inches of snow (and it's still snowing) in the past 2 weeks, base depth 52 inches. Opening day is tomorrow, but with that much base there should be a lot open by Thanksgiving. Reported BCC/LCC base depths of 35 inches Alta, 32 Snowbird, and no more than 24 elsewhere do not imply huge amounts of terrain being skiable.
Other info of note: Sunshine will open part of Delirium Dive this weekend. And there is probably more terrain skiable out of Denver than SLC for the next week or so. A lot more if you include Wolf Creek (4 hour drive).
I'm headed for the Caribbean for a week starting tomorrow. That's my opinion where vacation $ are best spent this time of year. Will Whistler be as good? Probably, but I would have had to commit long before I knew that.
