Interesting reading the other reviews... Here's my take: I skied 62 days so far this season, and of those 26 have been at Tamarack (13 at Brundage, 16 at Bogus, and the remainder out of state) . Of course, it has been a "banner" snow year in Idaho, but even the past few years when it has not been, the snow at Tamarack was great. The lines at Bogus, and the rutted parking and road is a bummer, and all the more reason to drive to Tamarack. Tamarack has virtually no lift line but an abundance of awesome terrain to ski! It's not perfect, but it IS a great, fun, ski hill! Runs are long and not too boring for advanced skiers, but novices can ski most of them as well - making skiing with friends of differing ability levels possible (and there IS decent vertical to be found!). The lift staff is great, too! Very friendly and cheerful! That's the hill and staff - too bad the rest of the experience is not up to par. The so called lodge is a joke, and the fact that "common" folk/families cannot take coolers or lunch bags inside is ridiculous! The special area for "members only" is a joke as well, and should be eliminated. The barmaid is a floozy rude old thing -sorry I even spent a dime there. Tamarack provides little decent live music or anything to do apres ski. Too bad they didn't build a nice lodge with river rock and a great fireplace/pit (yes, Sun Valley style, if you will) with a place for music, before starting the condos. Making people WANT to b e there and have an enjoyable experience would have done wonders for the "village." Even so, I love to ski Tamarack and actually hope it stays open, fairly unchanged, so the people will flock elsewhere, and the non-existant lift lines will continue!

Tamarack is going in a MAMMOTH MTN direction... You can see the start of the building gone wild here too.. The ticketless turnstyle speeds up the lift line nicely...Beautiful scenery, just wish the lift would go up the mtn backwards... XXX TAMARACK NEEDS TO THIN THE TREES! XXX Had to hike out twice, because there was no way out! Could be the "BEST IN THE WEST" if they would do some logging...

Tamarack is a nice resort that is close enough to home to make a day trip out of it. They have good parks and jumps set up all over the mountain that makes it great for freestyle riders. The terrain in average with limited expert terrain which leaves you wanting a bit more of a challenge. The base of the resort is just over 4000 feet and doesn't get enough snow. With 2800 feet of vertical drop the runs a long enough to get a little leg burn. Thee lift lines are short if they even exist. Tamarack is no Utah resort but decent enough.

Right away I noticed that Tamarack is nice. It has nice new lifts. I had a 5 dollar Corona at one of the so called bars on the mountain. The snow on the Mountain that day was really good; 12 inches of new pow. I looked at the map and saw their double black diamond area over in the area of "After You" or something like that. I was excited to have some sort of a challenge. Nope not here. They definitely overrate their runs, and as soon as you think you are having an excellent time, the mountain peters out. The elevation of the lower portion is not high enough to sustain good snow conditions that often. The park was almost as good a Schweitzer's, but pretty darn good in comparison to Brundage. Overall the mountain does not ski that well, but if you are learning, it is a good place. It has a ritzy feel. This was during the 05-06 season. Hopefully they have opened up more terrain since then. I heard that if you ski off the backside or somewhere out of bounds that they will pick you up if you call them.

East Caosters, Park Rats, and Movie Stars will be pleased, but will enjoy it much more when the road is better.

The snowboarding today was great until afternoon when my friends and I went into the lodge to get a drink and came out 5 min. latter only to find that of all the 20 or so boards in the rack someone decided my board looked new and good enough for them to steal. After contacting security and filing a complaint I was told I probally would never retrieve it as they have no camers by the board racks. I find that strange since every building up there says that every resort event is being taped. I went home and told my big Brother who is a policeman in town and he said not again they just had a Sh_t load stole up there last weekend. It seems to me if they have a bunch of theives up there stealing everyone's snow board they would tighten up security at Tamarack to keep the Publicity down on they have no lockups for your boards or ski's and you cannot take your equipment indoors while you eat or go to the restroom while sking. THAT SUCKS IT WAS A BRAND NEW BOARD, I am a local and worked all summer to buy that new board, and season pass. This is my second season pass and I think next year I will find something else to do with my summer work money like go snockeling.