Medicine Lodge Ski Area
Medicine Lodge Ski Area is a ski area in Canada, at about 1,036 m. Its mapped area is about 1.0 km across, with 17 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 4.8 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 60 cm of snowfall a season, 2,746th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 164th in Canada. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2025/26 (90 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2020/21 (34 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (17 and 12 cm on average).
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.
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌦️ 7 Oct | 0 | 1.2 / 13.6 | 9.8 |
| 🌦️ 8 Oct | 0 | 6.5 / 14.1 | 16.8 |
| ☁️ 9 Oct | 0 | 2.4 / 8.8 | 32.1 |
| 🌨️ 10 Oct | 2.4 | -1.8 / 2 | 31.4 |
| 🌨️ 11 Oct | 0.1 | -4.5 / 0.9 | 17.9 |
| 🌤️ 12 Oct | 0 | -3.7 / 9.1 | 16.7 |
| ☁️ 13 Oct | 0 | -1 / 8 | 15.5 |
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
96% 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
Lift types
- Rope tow3
- T-bar1
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.
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.
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 17 cm, less than the median of 32 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 60 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2020/21 with 34 cm; the biggest was 2025/26 with 90 cm (2.6 times as much).
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.
More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52