Just another reminder to keep stoke alive, not to much time left. 

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29025747/loveland-ski-area-opening-day-set-thursday-start

Nothing, from A-Basin yet. I'm surprised the Loveland beat them as Loveland has to cover 400 more feet of vert than the Basin.

Keystone has 2300 feet of vert to cover in 11 days and Copper about 1600 feet if they are to make their November 6 opening days. I plan to ski my second consecutive Keystone opening day after missing about 20 of them.

Not to be outdone by Loveland, the Basin announced this morning that it will also open tomorrow morning.

Glad to hear it, i absolutly love the vibe of a-basin. Hoping to find a few days on the calender to get out there. 

t-minus 30 days hopefully

Well Copper just announced that it is slipping it's opening date by a week - to November 13. They just had too many warm nights to do the needed snow making.  Keystone has a lot of vert (2300 ft) to cover in snow to make it's scheduled November 6  opening. I would not be surprised if Keystone slips it's opening date, too. That would be two years in a row for them doing it.

Bob, does Keystone every just open the top and the Montezuma lift ? they already have the beginner area up there.  

pagamony wrote:

Bob, does Keystone every just open the top and the Montezuma lift ? they already have the beginner area up there.

Typically Keystone opens the  eastern side of the mountain top to bottom: the gondola and montezuma lifts, and  the Spring Dipper and River Run trails. It's all blue terrain It's an ambitious plan to open up the entire 2300 feet of vert on opening day. In ancient times (20+ years ago) they opened the western half of the mountain first: 1600 feet of vert off of Peru Express. That was all green terrain. With all mountain focus on the River Run base area, they abandoned opening days off of Peru.