Keystone Resort announced Wednesday it is now planning to open for the season on Nov. 18, two weeks later it had initially planned following two postponed opening day dates.
“Temperatures are indeed beginning to trend in our favor and Keystone’s mountain operations team was able to continue snowmaking operations again last night and into this morning,” Mike Goar, chief operating officer for Keystone, said in a statement Wednesday. “With favorable overnight snowmaking temperatures forecast through next week, we are looking forward to continued progress toward opening day and providing guests with a great ski and ride experience.”
Vail Resorts says Breckenridge Ski Resort, whose planned opening on Friday was also delayed, will open soon after Keystone, but did not provide a firm date.
According to Keystone, meteorologist Joel Gratz, who runs the ski forecasting site OpenSnow.com, expects dry weather to continue over the coming days, followed by decreasing temperatures later next week.
Keystone was initially slated to open on Nov. 4 back to Nov. 11. On Tuesday, the resort announced their opening.
Also, Copper Mountain pushed back its planned opening on Friday to Nov. 18. The ski area called it a “difficult decision.”
We've made the difficult decision to delay Opening Day for the 16/17 winter season until November 18th. Details:
— Copper Mountain (@CopperMtn)
is opening for the season on Thursday.
Arapahoe Basin’s lifts and the ski area says it is planning soon to open a second run.
has made snowmaking for ski areas across Colorado limited to impossible over the past several weeks. Forecasters, however, say there isn’t a direct correlation between a bad snow start and snowfall later on in the ski and snowboard seas.
