View post: How a Beloved Idaho Ski Area Is Adapting To Fire Danger Badger Pass, a small, 90-year-old ski area in Yosemite National Park, has announced that it won’t open for skiing and riding this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Badger Pass Ski Area in Yosemite closed early after a March heat wave rapidly melted Sierra snow, cutting the season weeks short. ...

“This forecast is arriving too late in the season and the snow totals have been too unreliable to wait any longer to be able to open Badger for less than a month,” Badger Pass wrote on Facebook.

Yosemite’s iconic Badger Pass ski area shocked winter lovers by shutting down for the season on March 18, weeks earlier than usual. The lifts that usually hum well into spring were silent as a ...