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Everything you need before your ski day

Ski buddy matching, snow forecasts and run tracking

SkiBuds is built around the two questions that decide a ski day: who am I riding with, and what is the snow doing.

The SkiBuds app is being rebuilt and is not available to download yet. Matching, chat and run tracking arrive with it. Snow forecasts and the free planning tools work on this website today.

Find your people

Matched by how you actually ride

The rebuilt app is planned around finding riders you will enjoy a day with: browse riders in Discover, filter by the things that decide whether a day together works, then send a friend request and plan it in chat.

  • Discover filters for skill level, availability and terrain interests such as groomers, park, powder, moguls, trees and backcountry
  • Friend requests, private messages and mountain conversations for carpooling and après, the time together after riding
  • Live location sharing that is off by default and, when you turn it on, visible only to friends
The original SkiBuds app's channel list for Arapahoe Basin: general, carpool, Beginner, Advanced, apres and Lady Shredders Only channels
The original SkiBuds app in 2020, which grouped chat into channels by mountain and ability, plus carpool and après channels.

Know before you go

Conditions across 116 resorts

The app is planned to bring hourly, daily and weekly snow forecasts, base-to-summit views where the source supports them, and opt-in powder alerts, so the decision about where to ride is made before you are already driving.

  • Forecasts from sources such as the National Weather Service and MET Norway, with the source and update time shown
  • Avalanche reports for the terrain that needs them
  • Lift and trail status reported by riders at the resort, not official resort updates; the original app's automatic lift-status notifications are not coming back
Arapahoe Basin lift status, a 2020 weather report and a webcam image in the original SkiBuds app
The original SkiBuds app in 2020. Its automatic lift status notifications and webcams are not part of the rebuild.

Track the day

Runs, not lift rides

GPS tracking planned to tell riding down from sitting on a chair, on a mountain map that shows trails and lifts where coverage exists, so your day reflects what you actually skied.

  • Runs separated from lift rides automatically, with distance, vertical, speed and duration
  • A base map you can download before you lose signal; trail overlays, weather and messaging still need a connection
  • Day Recaps to share your stats without your GPS route, plus photo stories from the mountain
The original SkiBuds app's setting for showing all mountains or only those within a chosen distance, set to 100 miles
The original SkiBuds app in 2020, choosing which mountains to show by distance. It is not a run tracking screen; none from the rebuilt app is published yet.

The app is coming back

It isn't in the stores while we rebuild it. Follow along and you'll know the day it is released.

See launch status