A snowboarder takes in the view from the top of Winter season Park Resort’s Prospector Express chairlift Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005. Below is the ski resort’s Rail Yard terrain park. Picture by Christian Murdock/The Gazette
Vail Mountain on Friday boasted the most open surface in Colorado, with all of its 5,289 acres offered. The resort tallied 13 inches of snow in the previous week to add to its 134 inches-and-counting leading up to a weekend with more powder in the forecast.
The second-earliest opening for Blue Sky Basin has actually highlighted what resort CEO Doug Lovell called “a famous start to the season.” In a news release, he called it “the strongest start to the season in years.”
Ski locations all around the state are commemorating Mother Nature, who mainly left powder hounds’ prayers unanswered last winter.
Today left double-digit snow totals in northern and southern mountains. Steamboat Resort reported 22 inches in the previous 7 days, while Telluride Ski Resort logged the exact same quantity down the Western Slope.
Closer to the Front Range, Breckenridge logged 16 inches on the week, while Beaver Creek and Winter season Park each delighted in 14. Arapahoe Basin and Copper Mountain each chose up 11.
OpenSnow.com, the sport’s relied on weather condition source, is requiring soft turns on New Year’s Eve, thanks to a storm anticipated to roll across numerous mountains Saturday night through Tuesday. “This will likely not be a huge storm,” the website checked out Friday, “but 2-8 inches of snow would be a nice way to end the year.”
Here’s a take a look at mid-mountain depths throughout ski nation: