Salt Lake City, UT - Another powerful Pacific Northwest storm, ski area openings in Utah, Colorado and Alberta, a Midwestern ski show, and still more snowmaking...it's all depicted in Friday's ski and snowboard photo gallery.


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Snowmaking got underway Friday morning in Michigan at Boyne Highlands. (photo: Boyne Resorts)
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Opening day Friday at Colorado's Copper Mountain. (photo: Copper Mountain, CO)
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Snowmaking Friday morning on the Haynes and Jet at Jay Peak, Vt. (photo: Jay Peak Resort)
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Opening day Friday at Lake Louise in Canada's Banff National Park. (photo: Lake Louise Resort)
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Loon Mountain, N.H. Friday morning. (photo: Stacy Lopes)
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Setting up for the Minnesota Ski & Snowboard Expo. (photo: Highland Ski & Snowboard Area)
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Yet another early storm blows into Oregon's Mt. Bachelor on Friday. (photo: Mt. Bachelor Resort)
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Friday's powerful storm may be enough to open Oregon's Mt. Hood Meadows. (photo: Mt. Hood Meadows)
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Solitude opened Utah's ski and snowboard season on Friday. (photo: Solitude Mountain Resort)
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A wintry looking Mt. Mansfield in Stowe, Vt. on Friday.(photo: Aaron Rhode)
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Sunday River, Maine will reopen for skiing and riding on Saturday. (photo: Sunday River)