COLORADO — Friday brought some much-needed snow to the mountains amid a punishingly dry winter season.
Here's the share of trails each mountain reportedly had open as of midday Saturday:
Wolf Creek is unsurprisingly in the lead at 100% open. As far as slopes closer to Denver, Copper had the highest percentage of open runs as of Saturday at 94%. Despite opening its Montezuma Bowl, Arapahoe Basin is still lagging behind with just 55% of trails open.
Eldora saw the most significant openings between Friday and Saturday, jumping from 71% open to 90% open. That's no surprise considering the Nederland ski area reportedly received a glorious 15" of snowfall.
Here's where things stood Friday night:
It's a big improvement from earlier this season when many resorts had less than half of their runs open.
Here's where things stood Jan. 19:
And here's how much snow ski areas say they got in the last 24 hours.
Monarch — 16"
Eldora — 15"
Winter Park — 13"
Keystone — 13"
A-Basin — 12"
Breckenridge — 11"
Copper Mountain — 9"
Loveland Ski Area — 8"
Aspen Mountain — 7"
Steamboat — 6"
Telluride — 6"
Vail — 6"
Crested Butte — 4"
Beaver Creek — 4"
Wolf Creek Ski Area — 4"
Purgatory — 1"
Editor's note: A previous version of this story miscalculated the percentage of runs open at Aspen mountains March 6, previously stating that 99% of runs were open. The correct figure is 91%.
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