EMSC
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Anyone ready to place bets on the annual North America race to open?
In Colorado at least I know of 4 areas blowing snow for the past several nights. Though only 3 are shooting for public openings. The big kicker is a storm with several inches of snow is forecast for Thursday. The bigger part of things this time of year is that temps at 10K feet could go as low as 0F for a couple overnights from the storm (as well as allow all day snowmaking for a couple days). I would certainly think someone is opening this weekend if not multiple by Sunday.
ABasin - probably ~25% of the way there as of this morning
Loveland - less than 25% as of this morning. Haven't even started on long stretches of their opening trail
Keystone - hard to tell based on web-cams. Have some OK piles in places up top, but they are opening a rather long wandering green to start so could take them longer due to length.
Copper - racing to open up some terrain exclusively for race training (both on Excelerator and eventually the Super B speed venue).
OR, is someone else going to pull the trigger faster or get lucky with snowfall amounts and open first??? Which happens every couple of years.....
In Colorado at least I know of 4 areas blowing snow for the past several nights. Though only 3 are shooting for public openings. The big kicker is a storm with several inches of snow is forecast for Thursday. The bigger part of things this time of year is that temps at 10K feet could go as low as 0F for a couple overnights from the storm (as well as allow all day snowmaking for a couple days). I would certainly think someone is opening this weekend if not multiple by Sunday.
ABasin - probably ~25% of the way there as of this morning
Loveland - less than 25% as of this morning. Haven't even started on long stretches of their opening trail
Keystone - hard to tell based on web-cams. Have some OK piles in places up top, but they are opening a rather long wandering green to start so could take them longer due to length.
Copper - racing to open up some terrain exclusively for race training (both on Excelerator and eventually the Super B speed venue).
OR, is someone else going to pull the trigger faster or get lucky with snowfall amounts and open first??? Which happens every couple of years.....