v1.1  2026–27 Season

Sharper on the Mornings That Matter

Nine o'clock to eleven is when a lift line changes fastest, and it is the window where a wait that is even a few minutes behind sends you to the wrong chair. This release is mostly about that window.

Accuracy when the mountain is filling up

A queue that is growing is a moving target. The wait you would have found ten minutes ago is not the wait in front of you now, and the faster the line builds the wider that gap gets.

PeakWait is meaningfully better at that now. On a busy morning the band you see tracks the line you will actually stand in more closely than it did — and when a queue is climbing faster than we can keep up with, the app says so instead of showing a number it cannot stand behind.

A useful answer on a lift nobody has reported

Early in the day, most of the mountain has no reports yet. That used to mean grey text and nothing else.

Now a lift that nobody has reported tells you what that hour usually looks like — usually busy now, under the lift name. It is clearly a pattern rather than a reading, it never colours the row, and the moment one real report lands it disappears. It only ever warns you about a wait; it will never tell you a lift is clear.

Recommendations that admit what they don't know

“Where to ski today” and the best-next-chair pick now compare only lifts with a real wait behind them. A lift nobody has reported is not a lift with a short line — it is a lift we know nothing about, and it should never win a comparison on that basis.

When there isn't enough to compare, the app tells you so instead of picking. On a quiet morning that is simply the truth.

Steadier when your phone isn't

Lift bases are hard on a phone — steel towers, canyon walls, cold batteries, no signal. Several improvements here make the app more careful about which location readings it trusts, which mostly shows up as fewer odd results at the bottom of a lift.