Slopes Goes Beyond Ski Tracking with New Ways to Plan, Navigate, and Explore the Mountain
Slopes introduces advanced terrain insights and route planning with Slopes Explore, alongside redesigned mountain maps
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Denver, COLORADO, Nov. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Slopes: Ski and Snowboard, the leading winter sports app trusted by millions of users worldwide, announces a series of updates designed to help skiers and snowboarders better plan their days, understand mountain conditions, and explore new terrain. The updates for the 2026–27 winter season include improved weather forecasts, a new personal mapping library, and redesigned mountain maps.
Key visual showcasing screenshot of new features.
Building on these improvements, Slopes is also introducing Slopes Explore, a new offering for skiers and snowboarders who want to take their mountain planning further. Explore adds advanced terrain insights, personal heatmaps, mobile route planning, and custom offline maps, giving users more ways to prepare for their next adventure, both within and beyond resort boundaries.
Slopes Explore: Beyond Resort Boundaries
Designed with backcountry skiers and snowboarders in mind, Slopes Explore introduces advanced tools to help users better understand terrain and plan adventures beyond resort boundaries. Interactive map overlays offer insights into slope steepness and sun exposure, alongside tools such as a Wind Loading Simulator. A mobile route editor and custom offline maps provide additional tools for planning trips into the backcountry.
Explore also introduces Personal Heatmaps, allowing users to visualize their past recordings, see where they’ve skied before, and identify new areas to explore. Slopes also adds free avalanche forecasts from 73 forecast centers across 20 countries, displaying danger ratings from local forecasting authorities directly on the map and along planned routes. While particularly useful for backcountry adventures, the new planning features also offer resort skiers more ways to explore familiar mountains.
A More Personal and Detailed Mapping Experience
Beyond Explore, Slopes is also introducing a free personal mapping library, allowing users to save and organize their favorite routes, places, and collections. Skiers and snowboarders can import routes from other apps, save routes from their past Slopes recordings, and mark favorite locations with custom pins and notes.
Slopes’ mountain maps are also receiving a significant visual update, with sharper terrain details, improved tree coverage, and more detailed representations of trails, roads, and mountain landmarks. A high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) powers both the 3D terrain and the hillshading shown by default in 2D, helping users better understand their surroundings, whether navigating a familiar resort or exploring somewhere new.
Smarter Weather Insights for Better Planning
The seasonal update also brings improved weather forecasts and condition information to all Slopes users. Unlike traditional forecasts organized around calendar days, Slopes focuses on the ski day, combining snowfall from the previous night with the following day’s forecast. This gives skiers a clearer picture of how much fresh snow could be waiting at the first chair, while still distinguishing between snow that falls overnight and snow expected while they’re on the mountain.
Condition highlights also flag factors such as overnight freezes, daytime thaws, strong winds, and recent storms. An extended 10-day outlook helps users plan their mountain days further in advance.
Availability
The free Weather & Conditions update begins rolling out on November 10, 2026, on iOS and Android. The new personal mapping library, redesigned maps, and Slopes Explore begin rolling out the same day on iOS, with Android updates planned for later in the season.
The personal library and improved weather forecasts are available for free. The redesigned maps are included with Slopes Plus, previously Slopes Premium. Slopes Explore is available for $79.99 per year, with eligible existing Slopes Plus subscribers able to upgrade for $59.99 for their first year. A family plan is also available.
About Slopes
Slopes is the leading winter sports app, trusted by more than 4 million skiers and snowboarders across 250 countries. It helps riders capture their days on the mountain, analyze performance with detailed stats, explore interactive 2D and 3D resort maps, and stay connected with friends in real time—creating a rich, shareable timeline of every winter adventure. For more information, visit getslopes.com.
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