Johnson, who was wearing a helmet, struck several rocks before coming to a rest hundreds of yards below a ridge, the resort said.
"We had 100 inches of snow at this time last year," said Judy Sweeney, who manages Snow Ridge Ski Resort in Turin, N.Y., between Utica and Watertown.
Starling Farm, an organic pepper plantation, has beautiful wooden villas and bungalows at their new Starling Ridge Plantation Resort http://starlingridge.com (from $30).
By midafternoon, hit the four-mile-long Riva Ridge cruiser, the resort's longest trail.
Just past the ridge where the resort's boundary gates usually sit, in the shadow of rock-ribbed Cody Peak, we entered another world — above a puffy white cloud layer covering Teton Valley.
The Eagle Ridge Inn and Resort, six miles east of town on Route 20, at 444 Eagle Ridge Drive, (800) 892-2269, fax (815) 777-5609, www.eagleridge.com, has 500 accommodations, ranging from rooms to villas to houses, with a spa, golf, tennis, bicycling, riding and canoeing, cross-country skiing and skating.
In addition to Escornacrabes, several ridges crimp the resort's face like a rumpled bedspread, each of them striped with short but steep scare-your-mother chutes.
Two small California ski resorts, Dodge Ridge and Badger Pass, shut down in January as temperatures climbed to near-record highs and weeks passed without snow.
BLUE RIDGE GETAWAY -- The Skyland Resort and Big Meadows Lodge, two hotels in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, have a two-night deal available April through September.
At the very top of a rocky, wind-whipped ridge above this sprawling ski resort west of Yellowstone National Park stands a towering grove of ancient whitebark pine trees.
Over the ridge from Zermatt is the Italian resort of Cervinia, whose glacier is regarded as one of the monsters of its genre.
