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It’s a scenario familiar to any skier or snowboarder: You pull out your trusty paper trail map on a snowy, windy day, only to have it flap around, rip into pieces and succumb to the soggy bounds of your gloves. Now, though, you may be able to spare yourself the struggle. The map mavens at Google this week rolled out their latest product, mobile trail maps of 38 resorts in the U.S. and Canada, complete with colored lines for trails — green for beginner runs, blue for intermediate and black for experts — along with lifts and the occasional Street View–like tour.

As temperatures rise, analysts predict that scores of the nation’s ski centers, especially those at lower elevations and latitudes, will eventually vanish.

Try New England, Colorado and New Mexico, where some resorts are seeing snowfall ranges of 40 inches to over 105 inches.

An official at a Maine ski area says people have been injured in an accident on a lift.

Hundreds of skiing Santas were dashing through the snow at a Maine ski resort over the weekend.

Find this ritzy ski resort a little snobby? Aspenites are working on it.

Attention, powder hounds. It’s still possible to find a deal at a wide range of ski areas this winter, even at some of the most popular resorts.