SkiNoSki: A Data-Driven Approach to Know When It's Time to Hit The Slopes

I grew up in Salt Lake and, as a result, grew up skiing. If you know the geography, you know I grew up pretty spoiled when it comes to skiing (and the mountains).

My pamperedness eventually led to me only going when conditions were perfect and I didn't have to deal with the traffic in the Cottonwoods (ifykyk).

Last year I made a project that would pull live data from the UDOT webcams and run an object detection model on the traffic to calculate the pandemonium level in the canyons.

I decided to build on this and aggregate snow data, traffic data, and current open terrain at the resorts into an app that would notify me when it was time to head up the canyon. Either Ski or NoSki.

My hope was that this would help cure the self-diagnosed addiction to checking snow totals, webcams, etc. whenever a new storm rolled in.

I ran it on a Raspberry Pi that I taped to the bottom of my desk, and it did help keep me from checking the forecasts and cams myself (for about a day).