{"id":802950,"date":"2020-01-10T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=377122"},"modified":"2020-01-10T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:59:07","slug":"loveland-ski-area-to-open-lift-9-servicing-top-of-continental-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/loveland-ski-area-to-open-lift-9-servicing-top-of-continental-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Loveland Ski Area to open Lift 9, servicing top of Continental Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/LovelandTerrain-SDN-011120-1024x557.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/LovelandTerrain-SDN-011120-1024x557.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/LovelandTerrain-SDN-011120-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/LovelandTerrain-SDN-011120-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/LovelandTerrain-SDN-011120.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Loveland Ski Area is seen from Rookie Road off the top of Lift 9 at the Continental Divide in February 2019.<\/strong><br \/><em>Antonio Olivero \/ aolivero@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Summit and Clear Creek County\u2019s pair of ski areas at the Continental Divide are opening lift service to above-timberline terrain this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>At Loveland Ski Area, in Clear Creek County at the border of Summit County, Lift 9 will open Saturday for the season. Lift 9 transports skiers and snowboarders to the top of the Continental Divide. On Loveland\u2019s social media channels Friday, a post reported that the double-black diamond Patrol Bowl terrain and the intermediate Rookie Road run will open Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday afternoon, Loveland reported 1,120 acres of lift-served terrain open with a 37-inch base at midmountain and 144 inches of snow for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Across the divide, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area announced on its social media channels Friday that it opened West Zuma terrain in the Zuma Bowl off the ski area\u2019s back side.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday afternoon, 113 of 145 runs were open \u2014 including 90% of advanced terrain and 52% of double-black-diamond terrain \u2014 with a 41-inch base and packed-powder conditions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/loveland-ski-area-to-open-lift-9-servicing-top-of-continental-divide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loveland Ski Area is seen from Rookie Road off the top of Lift 9 at the Continental Divide in February 2019.Antonio Olivero \/ aolivero@summitdaily.com Summit and Clear Creek County\u2019s pair of ski areas at the Continental Divide are opening lift service to above-timberline terrain this weekend. At Loveland Ski Area, in Clear Creek County at [&hellip;]<\/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-802950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-28 22:53:56","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\/802950","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=802950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}