Here is a look at Sleepy Hollow under a nearly full-moon last night. Happy Halloween.

Here are a few more images from the storm earlier this week. The forecast calls for a quiet weather week coming up with a better chance for stormy weather during the second week of November. Check out Joel’s forecast here…and keep on dancin’.

It wasn’t a lot of snow, but I saw it as the only chance to put skis on snow in October. We received around 6″ of snow although there was more in certain wind loaded areas. It was definitely more about the up than the down! I skinned around to take a look at the snow cover and evaluate if…

The State of Colorado will receive some much needed snow on Sunday and Monday. A sizable storm is moving in that will deliver anywhere from 5″ to 20″ (or more) of snow around the State. Hopefully this will help to slow the growth of the fires that have been raging in the west and northern portions of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.…

Monarch Park is located just east of the ski area below the highway. In the summertime, it is a beautiful wetlands with streams, ponds and lush green vegetation. This area is supplied with runoff moisture from the ski area along with the top of the pass, Old Monarch and Monarch Ridge. During the winter, it is busy with snowmobiling, dog…

Our prism cam is back. Here is a look at the sunrise this morning.

We have had plenty of both lately. This fall continues to deliver dry and windy conditions. A change to winter will be a welcome sight.

One of our shuttle buses is flexing its muscles! Kudos to Ben James from our Vehicle Maintenance crew for putting his auto body and painting skills to work on this bus. It’s now looking sharp and ready to rumble for the season.

Each fall we conduct a bit of mowing on some of our easier trails. This knocks down the taller vegetation and sets us up for early season track packing once the snow starts to fly. When trails are covered in tall grasses and underbrush, they require deeper snow accumulations to evenly cover the slopes. By trimming back these naturally tall…

The Slope Maintenance Crew recently reseeded areas that were disturbed with the construction of the tubing hill a few summers ago. We initially reseeded, mulched, installed blankets and wattles after construction. Re-vegetation and erosion control is a constant project up here due to our granitic soils and extreme runoff events. We added some amendments and used a targeted seed mix…