Weather, avalanche bulletins, snow quality, and terrain analysis for your favorite resorts — one calm view of the conditions that actually matter, with offline maps for when the signal doesn't reach the mountain.
No more switching between five apps and a bookmarked PDF. First Chair pulls the signals that matter into cards you can actually act on.
Avalanche danger, snow quality, terrain overlays, live radar, and run statistics — all live on the resort page, all one tap from the full detail.
Sweep a fixed analysis path down real terrain and see exactly where it steepens — steepness, aspect, and elevation, read off a line instead of guessed from a flat map.
Switch the basemap into classic slope shading or avalanche terrain classes, so the angle of what you're looking at is visible while you're still planning the line — not just after you're on it.
A single score combining fresh snow, freezing level, wind, sun exposure, and the current avalanche bulletin. Nothing is hidden: every score shows exactly what raised or capped it.
Scrub through the last few hours and the next few to come — useful the moment the sky starts looking uncertain, not just first thing in the morning.
Valley and peak rarely agree. Compare temperature, wind, and precipitation across the elevation band you'll actually be riding, hour by hour.
First Chair isn't trying to be a game or a social feed. It's a planning tool for the fifteen minutes before you leave the hotel room.
Official regional danger ratings and problem types — not a guess, the actual published bulletin for where you're headed.
Elevation, basemaps, runs, lifts, and terrain overlays all cache offline — resort Wi-Fi and mountain signal are not a given.
Every rating — snow quality, terrain risk — shows its inputs and the exact rule that capped it. You can always see why.
Free to download. Add your favorite resorts and check conditions in seconds.
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