On rare occasions, when the winters are especially big, you hear about ski resorts that can’t keep up. Thus was the case with Idaho’s Soldier Mountain this week, a resort between Boise and Sun Valley near the small town of Fairfield on what’s known as the Camas Prairie. For most of February, storms have pounded Idaho, leaving snowpack totals brimming. Most of the state is in the 110 percent of normal range and above.
Soldier, which was owned by Bruce Willis at one point, has seen ownership change in recent years. But that had nothing to do with the crazy storm totals this week that shut down the resort Thursday. “Due to massive amounts of new snow with increasing density and current extreme avalanche warning in effect, Soldier Mountain will be closed Thursday as we continue digging out and getting the mountain safe for skiing Friday through Sunday,” wrote mountain officials on Facebook.
Soldier has two lifts and a cat skiing operation that accesses solid terrain in the Soldier Mountains, just to the southwest of the Sawtooth Mountains as the crow flies.
