today and opened up much the terrain served by the Sam's Knob lift,
including Wildcat, Slot, Zugspitze and Promenade. One field tester said it
was boot-top to knee-deep and a bit exotic with some occasional wind crust,
but it was fresh powder and he was not complaining. At all. So mark this as
the day the Knob opened. Next up at Snowmass is the Sheer Bliss terrain on
the east side of the Burn, which is likely to open before the Sheer Bliss
quad starts running. As of mid-day, Snowmass was showing that nine inches
had fallen and Aspen Mountain was sporting 4 inches. It snowed steadily and
happily throughout the valley all afternoon and at least into the early
evening. So yes, Virginia, Wednesday morning is bound to be quite full of
fresh snow. Forecast for Tuesday night was calling for 1 to 2 inches in
Aspen and 1 to 3 inches early on Wednesday. Wednesday is supposed to be
quite cold, with a high of just 9 degrees and wind chill values as low as
minus 25 degrees, given the expected wind gusts out of the north up to 30
miles per hour. Good day for that face mask. Photo of snowboarder on Tuesday at Snowmass is from SkiCo by Jeremy Swanson.
