Cold Smoke 2022 Lost Trail Ski Area
By: Lost Trail Ski Area · 2023-10-27
Lost Trail is a ski area in United States, at about 2,179 m. Its mapped area is about 4.5 km across, with 56 marked runs and 8 lifts (about 36 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 188 cm of snowfall a season, 1,259th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 102nd in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2025/26 (256 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (110 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (53 and 35 cm on average).
Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
12.3℃
Max wind
17.5km/h
Elevation
2,179m
Across
4.5km
Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.
We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified. Snow report on the official site ↗
Score breakdown
Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☀️ 7 Oct | 0 | 5.4 / 19.1 | 20 |
| ☁️ 8 Oct | 0 | 7.3 / 19.3 | 17.5 |
| ☁️ 9 Oct | 0 | 5.1 / 19.8 | 26.3 |
| 🌨️ 10 Oct | 1.8 | -2.4 / 5.5 | 9.9 |
| 🌨️ 11 Oct | 8 | -4.8 / -1 | 9.2 |
| 🌨️ 12 Oct | 0.1 | -6.1 / 4 | 9.9 |
| 🌤️ 13 Oct | 0 | -5.8 / 7.1 | 11.2 |
Runs and lifts
Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Marked runs
56
Run length
36km
Lifts
8
Vertical
535m
Top 2,495 m · base 1,960 m
Run map
NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map2.0 km
Steepest pitch34°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.5°
Which way the slopes face
North 15%
East 74%
South 11%
West 1%
89% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
By difficulty
Novice 1
Easy 12
Intermediate 29
Advanced 14
Lift types
- Chairlift5
- Rope tow3
See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗
Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.
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How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Seasonal snowfall
188 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
110 cm
A typical winter: 181 cm. The best: 256 cm.
World rank
1259
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
102
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
109
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 2,179 m, 1,651 m above the national median.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 46 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
53cmDec
35cmJan
53cmFeb
46cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 188 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 110 cm; the biggest was 2025/26 with 256 cm (2.3 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States, the leanest winter was the same 2014/15: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
110
256
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗ Coordinates: 45.6945, -113.9570
More places to look
Guides covering United States
- Which Famous Ski Resorts Actually Get the Most Snow? 24 Names, Measured Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.
- A Black Run in Colorado and a Black Run in Austria Are Not the Same Thing. The Maps Prove It. Across 2,888 ski areas: 39% of American runs are graded advanced or harder, and 9% of Austrian ones. Nobody thinks Austria is four times gentler. The grades are measuring different things.
- Niseko vs Whistler: Whistler Is the Outlier, Vail Is the Rule Whistler is the world's 29th snowiest ski area. Vail is 1,335th — and 288 Japanese ski areas get more snow than the resort that defines American skiing.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52