{"id":804586,"date":"2020-02-25T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=379490"},"modified":"2020-02-25T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:00:00","slug":"arapahoe-basin-ski-area-addresses-saturday-crowds-says-numbers-are-still-much-lower-than-in-previous-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/arapahoe-basin-ski-area-addresses-saturday-crowds-says-numbers-are-still-much-lower-than-in-previous-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Arapahoe Basin Ski Area addresses Saturday crowds, says numbers are still much lower than in previous years"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/85224683_10162915700985332_8604483969808859136_o-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/85224683_10162915700985332_8604483969808859136_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/85224683_10162915700985332_8604483969808859136_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/85224683_10162915700985332_8604483969808859136_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/85224683_10162915700985332_8604483969808859136_o-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/85224683_10162915700985332_8604483969808859136_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Arapahoe Basin Ski Area Chief Operating Officer Alan Henceroth said that next month he will share skier numbers for February compared with last year. <\/strong><br \/><em>Ian Zinner \/ Arapahoe Basin Ski Area<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>ARAPAHOE BASIN SKI AREA \u2014 On Monday, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area Chief Operating Officer Alan Henceroth <a href=\"https:\/\/arapahoebasin.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/skier-numbers-at-basin.html\">addressed the Saturday crowds at A-Basin in his blog<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo question this past Saturday was the busiest day of the season for us,\u201d Henceroth wrote. \u201cWe had beautiful weather and great snow. A lot of people really enjoyed the day and, at least, a few people didn\u2019t like that it was busy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a tweet from A-Basin, parking at the ski area was temporarily full Saturday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Henceroth said it had been requested that he share skier numbers and promised to share details in early March comparing February numbers to the same month last year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we have had a few big days, we have seen a tremendous change compared to the last several years,\u201d Henceroth wrote.<\/p>\n<p>A-Basin spokeswoman Katherine Fuller reported that February has \u201cpicked up thanks to great snowfall,\u201d adding that all of the ski area\u2019s terrain is open. While A-Basin is no longer on the Epic Pass, Ikon passholders have up to seven days at A-Basin while Ikon Base passholders have five restricted days. Now that all terrain is open, Ikon passholders are likely more apt to use one of their limited days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/arapahoe-basin-ski-area-addresses-saturday-crowds-says-numbers-are-still-much-lower-than-in-previous-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arapahoe Basin Ski Area Chief Operating Officer Alan Henceroth said that next month he will share skier numbers for February compared with last year. Ian Zinner \/ Arapahoe Basin Ski Area ARAPAHOE BASIN SKI AREA \u2014 On Monday, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area Chief Operating Officer Alan Henceroth addressed the Saturday crowds at A-Basin in his [&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-804586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-21 17:50:51","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\/804586","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=804586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}