Just a few days ago, I expressed cautious concern about early-season snow conditions, happy that snow was beginning to fall and hoping for more. This weekend, my wishes were fulfilled, and while Boulder received just a dusting of snow on Friday night and Denver a few more inches, some ot the Colorado mountains have been slammed. Other than the miserable Sunday night drive that home-bound skiers endured, the heavy snowfall, mostly in the central mountains, is putting a smile on skiers' faces.
Here are the 48-hour snow totals for Colorado ski areas that are currently open:
- Arapahoe Basin, 21 inches
- Aspen Mountain, 17 inches
- Beaver Creek, 11 inches
- Breckenridge, 8 inches
- Copper Mountain, 14 inches
- Crested Butte, 13 inches
- Keystone, 6 inches
- Loveland, 32 1/2 inches
- Telluride, 8 inches (right, Nov 28)
- Vail, 13 inches
- Winter Park, 9 inches
Utah had gotten those storms a day or so earlier, and Alta, a powder capital, has all seven of its lifts running and 74 or its 116 runs open. But the unrivaled US snowfall leader is way up north. Alyeska Resort, AK, measured more than 117 inches of new snow over the past week, pushing the snowfall total for the season over 200 inches. The mountain reports almost spring-like conditions that it says "are more reminiscent of early spring than they are in December, with several feet of deep soft snow covering all elevations of the mountain."
Note: A day after I wrote this post, Alta retreated and now has four lifts and 55 runs available. The operational rollback might be weather related -- or perhaps only because midweek traffic tends to be slow between Thanksgiving and the Christmas-New Year's holiday period.
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