4 straight days of cold weather and near constant snowmaking allows the Basin to win the :"who starts the season first" award this year.

http://arapahoebasin.blogspot.com/

Added the formal annuncement"

http://arapahoebasin.com/ABasin/mountain/opening-day.aspx

Summit Daily News article about opening day ...

http://www.summitdaily.com/news/local/arapahoe-basin-once-again-countrys-first-ski-area-to-open-marking-start-of-2017-2018-season/

and it starts this Friday at Loveland

http://skiloveland.com/events/?mc_id=499

and three Fridays after that Keystone, Copper, and Breck will open... 

It's that time of year, living down here and itching when the western mountians start to open.  But that's what several thousand feet higher elevation will get you.  Meantime, we wait.