Salt Lake City, UT – Images emerging from ski country this week ranged from early season snows upon autumn foliage, to new lift installations around North America.n
A dusting of snow returned to the Colorado Rockies near Aspen on Thursday. (photo: Jeremy Swanson)
Thursday’s dusting near Crested Butte, Colo. (photo: CBMR)
Thursday’s dusting near Crested Butte, Colo. (photo: CBMR)
Snow guns sit ready for the race to opening day at Colorado’s Arapahoe Basin on Thursday. (photo: Arapahoe Basin)
Resorts of the Canadian Rockies’ Matt Mosteller makes ‘turns’ last weekend in Currie Bowl at Fernie Alpine Resort in British Columbia. (photo: Robin Siggers)
Loveland Ski Area near Georgetown, Colo., made snow early Friday morning to launch the race to open first in the U.S. (photo: Dustin Schaefer)
A skycrane helicopter flies towers in Thursday for Le Massif de Charlevoix’s new gondola in Quebec. (photo: Le Massif de Charlevoix)
Vail Mountain was also flying lift towers Thursday for the new High Noon Express lift in the Colorado ski resort’s Back Bowls. (photo: Cody Downard)