Another Colorado Ski Resort Opens This Weekend, Tickets Just $60

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The Colorado ski season’s about to get a little bigger.

On Saturday, November 7, Loveland Ski Area is kicking off the season with access to the Chet’s Dream lift.

On the way down, skiers will hit Catwalk, Mambo, and Home Run, a succession of beginner trails that cover nearly 1,000 vertical feet. In the afternoon, Loveland is hosting live music on the Basin Patio to celebrate the start of the season.

For the day, tickets cost $60, which, according to Loveland, honors 60 years of snowmaking.

“A huge thank you to our snowmakers and mountain operations crew, and to every Loveland team that got us here,” Loveland wrote in a social media post.

The upcoming opening comes roughly on schedule. Loveland tends to open in late October or early November, usually making it among the first ski areas in North America to offer lift-served skiing each season.

Saturday looks gorgeous with clear skies and crisp (but far from frigid) temperatures, per Loveland’s forecast. It’s a weather pattern that’s expected to hold into next week for Colorado, so, at least for now, November powder days are off the table. In the longer term, forecasters are keeping an eye on a potential pattern change towards the end of next week that could bring needed snow, according to OpenSnow.

In the meantime, a small crew of resorts alongside Loveland are making do with what Mother Nature’s provided. Arapahoe Basin and Keystone—two other regular frontrunners—have already kicked off the season. Breckenridge and Copper Mountain, however, pushed back their opening dates.

Outside Colorado, the ski season’s gradually coming online, with Mt. Rose, Nevada, and Mammoth Mountain, California, getting the party started this week on the West Coast. Up north, in Alberta, Lake Louise opened last weekend.

Otherwise, the waiting game persists. The majority of resorts angle for the end of November, so we’ll have a clearer picture of how this season might turn out as Thanksgiving approaches. Hopefully, all this Super El Niño business pays off, and Western skiers get an improvement over last winter—they could use it.

And to anyone fretting about the dry pattern: hold your horses. It’s only November.

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