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Early storm, chilly temps generate some early ski industry buzz
An Oct. 6 storm dropped several inches of snow across much of the Colorado high country, with as much as a foot of snow reported in the southwestern mountains.
A skier samples the early season goods at Wolf Creek. PHOTO VIA TWITPIC.
SUMMIT COUNTY — After an early season storm pasted Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, the traditional race to open may be over before it ever really started.
Wolf Creek Ski Area announced it will open Saturday, Oct. 8 with three lifts operating, and several other resorts have fired up their snow guns. Follow Wolf Creek on Twitter for more news.
According to Colorado Ski Country USA, Wolf Creek picked up three feet of snow.
Arapahoe Basin turned on the snowmaking snowmaking system at 4 p.m. after a cold front dropped temps into the zone, COO and vice president Alan Henceroth said on his blog.
Follow A-Basin on Twitter to keep up with the snowmaking efforts.
Word on the street is that Loveland Ski Area is also making snow, but we haven’t seen the official announcement yet. Once the resort starts making snow, there will be photos and video posted at the Loveland website. You can also keep up with Loveland on Twitter.
Copper Mountain is also making snow, according to this blog post, and before you know it, racers from around the world will be training at the Summit County resort. Here’s link for Copper’s Twitter feed.
The big Pacific storm also dumped significant amounts of snow around the rest of the West, including Heavenly, Squaw Valley and Mammoth Mountain in California, so there will likely be news of more openings soon. Follow all the action on Twitter at the #racetoopen hashtag.
Here’s how the early season storm went down on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/#!/WolfCreekSki2/status/122130422510534656/photo/1
Wow, @WolfCreekSki2 is opening on Saturday! #racetoopen—
Matthew Gebo (@mattgebo) October 07, 2011
@SundayRiver Better hurry up, @WolfCreekSki2 plans on opening up THIS SATURDAY! #RaceToOpen—
Dave Amirault (@ozskier) October 07, 2011
Hey @sundayriver, We tested our snowmaking system today too. Didn't even need the guns
#racetoopen twitpic.com/6w3j3b—
Aspen/Snowmass (@AspenSnowmass) October 06, 2011
NEWS FLASH: @WolfCreekSki2 is opening Saturday! 3 ft + 3 lifts!—
Colorado Ski Country (@ColoradoSkiUSA) October 07, 2011
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It’s hard to imagine that much snow has already fallen there when we have crunchy leaves and 80-degree temperatures in the mid west.
The ski season in Colorado this year will be close to nine months long. One of the fundamental tenets of global warming is that the snow season will be shorter. We are seeing the opposite,
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