Top 8 Winter Ailments and Their Spring-Skiing Remedies

To the snowed-in, cabin-fevered East Coasters, powder-hungry West Coasters and Midwesterners stuck on flat land without a mountain in sight: we hear your plight! In answer to your winter ailments, we concocted eight spring-skiing remedies to alleviate the top eight most common winter ailments.

1. AILMENT: THE COMMON WINTER COLD

Spring-skiing remedy: Bask in the sun and snow at Beaver Creek, Colorado. The Park Hyatt Beaver Creek features a ski-in ski-out patio, swimming pool, and hot tubs to help you shake off that deep freeze from the winter months.

2. AILMENT: ACHING FOR ALTITUDE

Spring-skiing remedy: Stuck on flat land? Head to the Rockies and soak in the views from the Imperial Express, North America’s highest chairlift, at Breckenridge, Colorado. As an added bonus, Breckenridge’s high altitude means great late-season conditions.

Spring-skiing remedy: If you’ve had your nose to the grindstone, escape to Park City, Utah, where you can maximize your time away from work by skiing the same day you land. In fact, the resort is only 35 minutes from Salt Lake City Airport.

4. AILMENT: ACHES, PAINS AND SNIFFLES

Spring-skiing remedy: Rejuvenate and relax with a soothing treatment at a world-class spa, like the award-winning spa at The Sebastian-Vail Square in Vail, Colorado.

5. AILMENT: INSATIABLE SKI CRAVINGS

Spring-skiing remedy: If you are starving for skiing, explore all four mountains at Aspen Snowmass, Colorado, where extended spring lift hours grants more time for turns under the afternoon sun.

6. AILMENT: CABIN FEVER

Spring-skiing remedy: Feeling cooped up? Go global at Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia for the World Ski & Snowboard Festival, which brings art, film, music, parties and competitions to the resort April 16-26.

7. AILMENT: POWDER DEPRIVATION

Spring-skiing remedy: If you’re hungry for powder, make turns at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, home to some of the biggest snowfall in North America this season.

8. AILMENT: WINTER BLUES

Spring-skiing remedy: If you’re caught in a rut, check out Steamboat Springs, Colorado the resort’s Springalicious festival (April 1-12) brings live music and quirky competitions to the slopes.