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"New terrain is being opened quickly thanks to heavy, early season snowfall"
In a paraphrase of an article in the Summit Daily News, posted November 18, 2005, Nicole Formosa reports:
Nearly three feet of snow covered Summit County in the past week, priming local ski areas to open unusually large acres of terrain for the early season.
Arapahoe Basin spokesperson, Leigh Heirholzer said: "We have three times the amount of snow we had last year, year-to-date. The last time we had a base like this was January 30, 2004." A-Basin, has a 39 inch base.
Loveland ski area has 68 percent more snowfall than its average. The mountain reported a 40 inch base, and 34.5 inches since November 12.
Breckenridge Ski Resort will open 300 new acres of terrain for the coming weekend, including the Quicksilver Super 6 and Mercury Superchair on Peak 9. Peaks 8 and 10 are slated to open Wednesday, November 23, in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. "This will probably be the best opening we've had in years..." said Rick Sramek, vice president of Breckenridge operations.
Keystone Resort plans to open both the North Peak and Outback mountains on Saturday (November 19th), which will be the first time in recent memory all three mountains have opened this early. Keystone has a 34 inch base.
Copper Mountain will open the American Flyer and Timberline express lifts with service to about 20 new ski trails. A total of seven lifts, 46 trails and 546 acres of terrain will be open this coming weekend, prior to Thanksgiving.
Vail Mountain is READY. It opens today, November 18th, with a little over 1,000 acres of terrain on 72 trails, serviced by 11 lifts. Vail has nearly 6 feet of snow at the top of the mountain. For Thanksgiving, the resort will open an additional six lifts.
Beaver Creek opens November 23rd.
Susan Gunnin says "This is one of the most incredible starts to the ski season I've seen in my 14 years of living here."
For more information about Summit County and Breckenridge, visit Susan's web site.
