Andy Cross, The Denver Post
Rock Canyon High School Ski Club member Ellen Eldridge negotiates a little powder near the Alpine Valley run on Peak 8 at the Breckenridge ski area on Feb. 4, 2012.
Getting your player ready...
Five more Colorado ski areas will open this week, bringing the number of open areas to 20 for the Thanksgiving weekend.
Purgatory and Crested Butte will open on Wednesday, with Telluride following on Thursday. Echo Mountain will open on Friday, while Ski Cooper will be open this weekend and the following weekend before moving to daily operations on Dec. 7.
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That leaves only eight areas left to open: Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk, Granby Ranch, Powderhorn, Sunlight, Kendall Mountain, Hesperus and Silverton.The next to open will be .
Ski areas open on Thanksgiving day
- Arapahoe Basin
- Aspen Mountain
- Beaver Creek
- Breckenridge
- Copper Mountain
- Crested Butte
- Eldora
- Howelsen Hill
- Keystone
- Loveland
- Monarch
- Purgatory
- Snowmass
- Steamboat
- Telluride
- Vail
- Winter Park
- Wolf Creek
Find out the opening dates for the .
