Where’s the Snow?

Written on November 13th, 2007 at 10:24 pm by Bill
Filed Under: Ski News

Every year the goal around here is to be skiing rather than watching football on Thanksgiving Day. T-minus eight days until turkey day and it is not looking good for most skiers.

It is the middle part of November and there is little to no snow falling anywhere. Only a handful of ski resorts are open and most of those probably shouldn’t be.

To date, Colorado has 7 resorts open (Arapahoe Basin, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, Keystone, Loveland, Winter Park and Wolf Creek). Open in California are Mammoth Mountain and Boreal. Lake Louise is open in Canada. Back East we have Mount Snow, Sugarloaf and Sunday River open for business.

Most of these early openings are a complete joke and are just a marketing ploy in order to promote the fact that they opened so early. For instance, Boreal (in Lake Tahoe) dropped the ropes on Monday with only one trail open and a 3 inch base.

Many resorts had scheduled openings over the coming week and now have to push those dates back with little or no snow on the horizon. Nervousness is beginning to set in at ski resorts across the U.S. and Canada as the all important Thanksgiving weekend approaches.

We seriously hope that we are not stuck watching the Packers play the Lions on a Thursday in the near future.