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[liftmech]

Ski Sunlight, south of Glenwood Springs, and Powderhorn, southeast of Grand Junction, are both closing today. The article in the Summit Daily quoted Sunlight's mountain manager as saying that 'Mother Nature is telling us to close.' Powderhorn was not discussed, although temps out in western CO have reached the 70s lately.
Of course, they made that announcement on Friday. Today (Sunday) it has been snowing for 24 hours and the temps haven't yet gotten above freezing...

[Kicking Horse]

Powderhorn shuts down around the end of march every year. Sunlight same thing. Seems to be Ski Cooper should be shutting down also.

[floridaskier]

Sounds like they decided a little too early...
It was really warm when I was there, and one of my friends who went to Keystone the week after I was in CO said it got up into the 60s on a few days. The snow was melting off pretty fast

[Whistler]

Cypress Mountain still has a Summit snow base of 500cm, and there is still more on the way. We'll be skiing for a long time. The season is not even close to being over.

[floridaskier]

Park City area got 4 inches today, so about 75 inches for the 3 mountains there now. It's cooling off too

[KZ]

We are at a brisk 55-65 in tahoe right now. In the last 3 weeks we have lost around 30 inches at all the majpr resorts. Kinda sucks, hopefully we can get another big storm

also, diamond peak is closing next sunday, dodge and bear probably the next week and most everyone but squaw and alpine 2 weeks later. Pray for snow!

[Allan]

We close next sunday as well.

[SkiBachelor]

Willamette Pass is staying open as long as they have snow. They are putting the gondola cabins on the six-pack and today started sight seeing. So there will be skiers and hikers riding the gondola up. Not sure if the other lifts will stay open. But hey, lift tickets are like $15 a day now.

[liftmech]

We've gotten about 10" in the last two days, half of which is good old Cascade Concrete. That should help us stay open until our projected closing date of 18 April. We have closed A, A-1, and 4 though, due to poor conditions. (I think we should have kept A open- looks great- but that's not really my decision. At least we have a private run back to the shop now B) )

[Allan]

We just got 11 inches over the last three days, but with the pending ownership change, the current owners don't want to spend any money they don't have to.

[floridaskier]

Will Willamette Pass be running the gondola at the speed for the summer, or will it be at normal HSS speed?

[SkiBachelor]

Well in the summer it runs slow, but I take it right now it's going to be running at normal hss speed. But I think it's a Chondola right now because there are only 20 cabins, but then again, no one uses this lift.

[floridaskier]

SkiBachelor, on Mar 30 2004, 05:21 PM, said:

...But I think it's a Chondola right now because there are only 20 cabins...

Do you mean there will be some six pack chairs on the line with the gondola cabins, or am I missing the point here?

[SkiBachelor]

That's the only thing I can think of but maybe they did take off all the chairs and are just runnig the 20 cabins. The capacity seems low though.

[Eric]

In the east, we have mild temps since last week :( Unfotunately, the Castlerock Peak at Sugarbush is closed for the season

I am not anxious for summer. I don't like it

[Bill]

As of today, April 1st, the following are closed in WA:

Summit West (Snoqualmie Summit)
Summit East (Hyak)
Crystal Mountain (closes 4/11)
Stevens Pass (closes 4/11)

Limited Operation starts soon:

White Pass, weekends only after 4/18.
Mount Baker, weekends & fridays after 4/1.

[floridaskier]

It's been about the same temperature here as in many ski areas- low 60s

[edmontonguy]

So much for closing! Edmonton Recieved over 15cm of snow today and it is still snowing.