{"id":800247,"date":"2019-10-10T11:20:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T17:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=372801"},"modified":"2019-10-10T11:34:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T17:34:04","slug":"summit-countys-first-snowstorm-puts-ski-areas-days-away-from-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-countys-first-snowstorm-puts-ski-areas-days-away-from-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit County\u2019s first snowstorm puts ski areas days away from opening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Snow starts to pile up at Keystone Resort.<\/strong>
Courtesy Elisabeth Biebl \/ Keystone Resort<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

FRISCO \u2014 Snow fell Wednesday night and Thursday across the Colorado Rockies, bringing a few inches of snow to towns in Summit County. But the real excitement is higher up, where the combination of natural snow, low temperatures and around-the-clock snowmaking means Summit County ski areas are only days from opening.<\/p>\n

At 9:30 a.m., Arapahoe Basin Ski Area had about 3-4 inches of natural snow, according to Louis Skowyra, director of lifts and slopes maintenance. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe snow is coming in like everybody expected,\u201d Skowyra said. \u201cThe temperatures are good \u2014 good for snowmaking. We\u2019re really banking on having a couple good nights of snowmaking and opening as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Skowyra said he is confident A-Basin will open very soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really close,\u201d Skowyra said. \u201cI think we\u2019re going to see some openings around the county. Hopefully, we\u2019re skiing here in a couple days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even with some higher, above-freezing temperatures forecast later in the week, Skowyra said once the ski area opens, it will stay open. It has never opened and then closed down, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we get open, we\u2019re open,\u201d Skowyra said. \u201cThat\u2019s our standard. We don\u2019t just open the second we can. We make sure it\u2019s durable and sustainable. When A-Basin opens, we intend to stay open until June or July.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The biggest surprise from the storm was Keystone Resort\u2019s snow stake, which showed about 7 or 8 inches Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith sustained cold temperatures, a new automated snowmaking system and a little help from Mother Nature, Keystone is getting ready to kick off the season any day now,\u201d Jessie Vandenhouten, communications manager for Vail and Beaver Creek, wrote in an email.<\/p>\n

Over at Loveland Ski Area, spokesman John Sellers reported 5 inches of snow at 10 a.m. <\/p>\n

\u201cSnow is great, but the consistent cold temperatures this storm is bringing is even better,\u201d Sellers said.<\/p>\n

The snow is expected to continue throughout the day and into the evening Thursday, bringing the total to as much as 8 inches of snow<\/a> in the mountains.<\/p>\n

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Snow starts to pile up at Keystone Resort.Courtesy Elisabeth Biebl \/ Keystone Resort FRISCO \u2014 Snow fell Wednesday night and Thursday across the Colorado Rockies, bringing a few inches of snow to towns in Summit County. But the real excitement is higher up, where the combination of natural snow, low temperatures and around-the-clock snowmaking means […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 05:28:39","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800249,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800247\/revisions\/800249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}