{"id":802291,"date":"2019-12-13T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T15:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=375926"},"modified":"2019-12-13T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T15:22:21","slug":"arapahoe-basin-ski-area-to-open-beavers-terrain-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/arapahoe-basin-ski-area-to-open-beavers-terrain-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Arapahoe Basin Ski Area to open Beavers terrain Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Skiers carve turns in fresh powder last winter in The Beavers terrain expansion at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area. A-Basin announced Friday morning that a portion of The Beavers will open to the public Saturday.<\/strong>
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DILLON \u2013 Arapahoe Basin Ski Area Chief Operating Officer Al Henceroth said in a blog post Friday morning<\/a> that the ski area\u2019s Beavers lift and terrain will open for the season at some point Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Henceroth said the ski area has received a foot of new snow since the latest storm rolled in Thursday, with another foot, or more, on the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cMother Nature has provided,\u201d Henceroth said in the blog post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Beavers will open Saturday morning,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe exact time will be dictated by weather events the next 24 hours. We will start with (ski runs) Loafer and Davis and, I suspect, additional terrain will follow. The skiing out there is awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

The COO added that the current weather event Summit County and Colorado is experiencing has been good for the ski area\u2019s north side, or front-side, terrain. Henceroth described the scene at A-Basin Friday morning before 8 a.m. as one where several of the ski area\u2019s snow safety teams were out running routes while, looking out his window, the snow was coming down so hard the COO could barely see the Black Mountain Express\u2019 fourth tower up the hill.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the morning progresses,\u201d the COO said, \u201cmore snow falls and the patrollers complete their work, a few treats may be available.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Henceroth wrote on his blog<\/a> that the ski area was \u201cpoised to have all kinds of skiing available very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlready, the quality of the skiing is outstanding,\u201d Henceroth said in the Wednesday blog post. \u201cMuch of the terrain available from the top of (the) Pali (lift) has been skied and is packed. The patrollers are working in the Steep Gullies (terrain) today. All the lifts are ready to go. The snowmakers are finishing up a stellar job on Norway. Trevor is track packing Davis with the winch cat for the second time. Loafer is not far behind. We have a really good forecast for snow Thursday night thru Sunday. Conditions wise, we are in the perfect spot, ready to receive and capitalize on this next storm. \u2026 And the cat drivers are already 80% of the way down (the) Columbine (run) to the bottom of Zuma Lift (on the ski area\u2019s back side terrain).\u201d<\/p>\n

As of Friday morning, A-Basin was reporting a 37-inch base with powder conditions after 10 inches of new snowfall in the past 24 hours. Uphill access was closed at the ski area Friday morning due to the storm.<\/p>\n

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Skiers carve turns in fresh powder last winter in The Beavers terrain expansion at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area. A-Basin announced Friday morning that a portion of The Beavers will open to the public Saturday.Summit Daily file DILLON \u2013 Arapahoe Basin Ski Area Chief Operating Officer Al Henceroth said in a blog post Friday morning that […]<\/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-802291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 12:40:48","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\/802291","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=802291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}