{"id":30366,"date":"2019-09-06T15:29:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T21:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=59935"},"modified":"2019-09-12T08:54:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T14:54:32","slug":"and-so-it-begins-first-snow-of-season-falls-on-grand-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/and-so-it-begins-first-snow-of-season-falls-on-grand-county\/","title":{"rendered":"And so it begins: First snow of season falls on Grand County"},"content":{"rendered":"

WINTER PARK \u2014 Friday wasn\u2019t exactly a powder day in Grand
\nCounty, but the first snowfall of the season hit some of the peaks along the
\nContinental Divide.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Divide is looking beautiful and white,\u201d a spokeswoman at Winter Park Resort commented as she noted the fresh snowfall didn\u2019t go under the resort’s radar and shared a few photos.<\/p>\n

The spokeswoman added that Winter Park Resort was seeing storm activity on the mountain on Friday with mixed precipitation. And with new snow on the mountains, the people at Winter Park Resort weren\u2019t the only ones who took note.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did notice it too,\u201d said Ryan Mowrey, who works as the rental manager in his family\u2019s ski shop, Epic Mountain Sports<\/a>. \u201cWe all ran outside and took pictures. Everyone is more excited than not even though (all of the store\u2019s employees) were planning a bike ride after work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Overall, Mowrey said he\u2019s noticed a shift in conversations at the family-owned store, moving from talk of mountain bikes to skis, boots and snowboards, as everyone gets geared up for the winter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re looking at what skis and boots that they want to
\nget for the upcoming season so it\u2019s justified, I think,\u201d Mowrey said.<\/p>\n

As for the upcoming ski and snowboarding season, Winter Park
\nResort is eyeing a Nov. 13 opening date, though that date has been bumped up or
\nback in the past due to conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, the disclaimer is that opening date is always dependent on weather and could be earlier or later based on the snow gods,\u201d the resort spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n

Grand County\u2019s new snow comes as a sign of the changing seasons and perhaps an early blessing for eager winter enthusiasts, but it isn\u2019t the first of the season in Colorado, as Arapahoe Basin Ski Area reported a dusting of \u201cwhite stuff\u201d on Aug. 22.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so it begins,\u201d A-Basin COO Alan Henceroth announced\u00a0on his blog<\/a>, which was then posted on social media sites to a throng of happy comments and shares. \u201cNot sure if it is snow, hail, sleet, slush or what, but the first white stuff of the season was high on the East Wall this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WINTER PARK \u2014 Friday wasn\u2019t exactly a powder day in Grand County, but the first snowfall of the season hit some of the peaks along the Continental Divide. \u201cThe Divide is looking beautiful and white,\u201d a spokeswoman at Winter Park Resort commented as she noted the fresh snowfall didn\u2019t go under the resort’s radar and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 01:08:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30691,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30366\/revisions\/30691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}