{"id":18262,"date":"2019-09-06T15:29:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T21:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=59935"},"modified":"2019-09-12T08:57:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T14:57:58","slug":"and-so-it-begins-first-snow-of-season-falls-on-grand-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/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":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.5368956743003\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-59935-212\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/0000155-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/0000155-1024x681.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Eli Pace \/ epace@skyhinews.com | From the town of Winter Park, snow is visible on some of the nearby mountains on Friday. Many people in the area celebrated the recent snowfall that signifies the coming of winter.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>From the town of Winter Park, snow is visible on some of the nearby mountains on Friday. Many people in the area celebrated the recent snowfall that signifies the coming of winter.<\/strong><br \/>Eli Pace \/ epace@skyhinews.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/0000155-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"From the town of Winter Park, snow is visible on some of the nearby mountains on Friday. Many people in the area celebrated the recent snowfall that signifies the coming of winter.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/IMG_6589-150x150.jpeg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/IMG_6589-1024x540.jpeg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy of Winter Park Resort | This photo taken at Winter Park Resort shows new snow coloring the nearby mountains along the Continental Divide on Friday.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>This photo taken at Winter Park Resort shows new snow coloring the nearby mountains along the Continental Divide on Friday.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy of Winter Park Resort<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/09\/IMG_6589-1024x540.jpeg\" alt=\"This photo taken at Winter Park Resort shows new snow coloring the nearby mountains along the Continental Divide on Friday.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/and-so-it-begins-first-snow-of-season-falls-on-grand-county\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/and-so-it-begins-first-snow-of-season-falls-on-grand-county\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\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\u2019s radar and shared a few photos.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>\u201cWe did notice it too,\u201d said Ryan Mowrey, who works as the rental manager in his family\u2019s ski shop, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Epic Mountain Sports (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epicmountainsports.com\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\">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<p>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<p>\u201cThey\u2019re looking at what skis and boots that they want to get for the upcoming season so it\u2019s justified, I think,\u201d Mowrey said.<\/p>\n<p>As for the upcoming ski and snowboarding season, Winter Park Resort is eyeing a Nov. 13 opening date, though that date has been bumped up or back in the past due to conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>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<p>\u201cAnd so it begins,\u201d A-Basin COO Alan Henceroth announced&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arapahoebasin.blogspot.com\/2019\/08\/first-white-stuff.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=facebook\">on 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<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/and-so-it-begins-first-snow-of-season-falls-on-grand-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the town of Winter Park, snow is visible on some of the nearby mountains on Friday. Many people in the area celebrated the recent snowfall that signifies the coming of winter.Eli Pace \/ epace@skyhinews.com This photo taken at Winter Park Resort shows new snow coloring the nearby mountains along the Continental Divide on Friday.Courtesy [&hellip;]<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 05:25:29","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":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18402,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18262\/revisions\/18402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}