Aspen is reopening their ski resort this weekend. More snow up in the mountains.
http://www.denverpost.com/brea...
Aspen Mountain will reopen for skiing this weekend with a better base depth of snow on Memorial Day than it had on New Year's Day.
The base depth has hovered around 70 inches at the mountaintop since the Aspen Skiing Co. announced last week it will extend the skiing season. The base was 38 inches on Jan. 1.
The ample amount of snow convinced the Skico to fire the chairlifts back up on Aspen Mountain for the long holiday weekend and for future weekends as long as conditions hold up. There will be 25 trails and roughly 136 acres of mostly intermediate terrain open Saturday, Sunday and Monday, May 28-30. All the open terrain will be served by the Ajax Express lift from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Silver Queen Gondola will run for rides up and down the mountain. There will be no top-to-bottom skiing.
Skiers and riders who purchased the various premiere passes for the 2010-11 season will ski for free during the extended season. All other passholders must pay for a lift ticket. The price is $19 for adult and senior pass holders, ages 18 to 69; $15 for senior passholders, ages 70 and up; $13 for youth passholders, ages 13 to 17; and $10 for child passholders, ages 4 through 12.
The price for adult single-day tickets for non-passholders is $32 per day.
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70" at the base. That's a breath under 6 foot of snow.
I wanna warm up!!
But then again, in about 10 days, it's supposed to be in the 90s. At least that's what they're predicting. Last week they said that Memorial Day was gonna be in the 80s & perfect.. now they're saying that Sunday is gonna have a high of 60.
Maybe it's time to move to NM. Bleh. Wonder how hard it would be to dig up all my roses?
