"Our Second Season Starts Now": Black Mountain, New Hampshire Aims for Memorial Day Skiing

“I believe that we will have lift-served skiing through Memorial Day. This little mountain is nowhere done with ski season.”

So ends one of many letters penned by the president and general manager of Black Mountain, New Hampshire, Erik Mogensen. 

Just before the letter was published, the ski area had spent 48 hours snowmaking. According to Mogensen, Black Mountain’s small snowmaking team focused its efforts on an uphill route and the “Black Mountain Glacier,” where the snow is now over 40 feet deep in some places.

While opportunities to make snow should dwindle as the weather warms, Mogensen noted that Black Mountain plans to fire the guns in May, if possible. 

“There is no doubt that we will be skiing deep into the spring this year,” he wrote.

The effort marks a stark contrast to some larger, better-known ski resorts out West, where the season is already over or soon to be. See below for Black Mountain's current snowpack.

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Black Mountain has now adopted a Friday through Sunday operating schedule, excluding spring break, when it’ll be open every day (April 20 through April 26). On Saturdays, the lifts will be open until 7 p.m. for sunset skiing. 

Tickets will be cheap. 

As of Friday, April 10, adult tickets dropped to $49. With a pass from another mountain, that price falls further to $39. If you have an Indy Pass but have already used your days at Black Mountain, tickets are only $29.

Since taking the reins of the humble ski area somewhat recently, Mogensen has spent a lot of time in the news. So has Black Mountain.

As the man running the independent ski area focused Indy Pass, Mogensen’s been heralded as the face of all things unassuming yet soulful in skiing. Or, more precisely, the side of the sport other than sprawling, corporate-owned destination resorts.

Black Mountain’s evolution and increasing profile are a big part of that story (Indy and Entabeni Systems bought it in 2024, with Mogensen serving as the general manager, for the time being—Entabeni owns the Indy Pass and makes tech for independent ski areas).

Once set to become a community co-op, the ski area’s now becoming a home base for the Indy Pass and what Mogensen called an “Independent Mountain Laboratory” where Entabeni Systems can test its tech.