43 Days til Snowmaking at Loveland
October 17, 2012
I just noticed that Loveland has put a countdown clock on it's website
http://skiloveland.com/the seasons are a changin --
and its only 20 days till snowmaking....
It snowed yesterday at 9600 feet in Breckenridge. First snow in town this season.
Now it's only 8 days til they plan to start blowing snow at Loveland.
I came out to Breckenridge Monday to do some work on the condo. I'm happy to report another snowfall last night. It looks like it snowed down to about 10,500 feet and it appears that Loveland Pass got 2- 3 inches.
Loveland ski area hopes to start blowing snow at about 11 pm MDT tonight.
more good news, thanks bob. now when are you gonna offer me that condo ??? :-) that's ok, i'm thinking about going south this year .... monarch and butte.
I love Loveland. In my opinion it does the best job of any CO ski area in balancing the needs and interests of the mainstream recreational skier and the adventure skier. It is also uncrowded, less expensive and close to Denver. Why so many people pass it to go to bigger name, more distant, more expensive, more crowded places is beyond me.
Denis - pipe down and don't tell anyone that blasphemy, ok ? that place is awful. you might have to wait three or four people for a old fashioned chairlift on a saturday. they get too much snow and don't groom it enough. you might have to walk under the interstate. it is not worth it. keep going to breckenridge where they have high speed lifts and a gondola from the parking lot. jeesh.
Loveland didn't start blowing snow when the countdown clock hit 0, but it did start blowing snow Wednesday night. A-Basin started Thursday night.
Both are still blowing snow at 2:50 PM Saturday, and it looks like they will continually blow snow til at least
Monday.
There will be skiing on manmade stuff in Colorado sometime next week.
... and Timberline in Oregon is scheduled to open on October 12 - probably on last years snow on the Palmer snowfield.
Well, A-Basin FINALLY got around to opening a few minutes ago, beating Loveland for "first to open in Colorado" honors.
It helped that the Basin only had to cover 600 feet or so of vert to open Blaok Mountain Express while Loveland has to cover almost a thousand feet of vert to open chair 1.
Four areas are open now -- from coast to coast
Killingon Vt.
Wild Mountain, Mn.
A-Basin, Co.
Timberline, Or.
Let the fun begin!
