Salt Lake City, UT – As ski resorts are gearing up for winter snow is once again falling both from the sky and from nozzles.

Another pre-season storm struck the Colorado high country today, leaving 14 inches of new snow at Wolf Creek, which will reopen this Friday for another three-day October weekend, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Fifty percent of the mountain will be open servicing a variety of expert, intermediate and beginner terrain.  Step Bowl, Alberta Peak, Montezuma Bowl over to Prospector Ridge will be open for expert skiers and boarders.  Lifts tickets will be  priced at $33 for adults and $19 for seniors and children.

Loveland Ski Area also reported 14 inches of new snow this morning, where five runs are open from one lift. Nearby Arapahoe Basin checked in with eight new inches this morning and that resort has two runs open, including a terrain park, and is operating one lift.

Elsewhere around Colorado Winter Park reported 15 inches, Snowmass a foot, SolVista Basin 11 inches, Sunlight 10 inches, Ski Cooper nine inches, Aspen and Telluride eight inches, and seven inches each at Copper Mountain, Keystone and Crested Butte. Steamboat tallied five inches. Breckenridge, Vail and Beaver Creek also reported new snow on Wednesday.

Snow is also falling in New England tonight, and other mountains are taking advantage of cold pre-season air to fire up their snowmaking systems, including Heavenly Resort and Northstar, both along the shores of Lake Tahoe in California, where snowmaking operations commenced Tuesday night.

“It’s always exciting when temperatures cooperate and we’re able to fire up the snowmaking system for the first time of the season,” said Bill Rock, vice president and chief operating officer of Northstar California Resort.

Boreal Mountain Resort on nearby Donner Summit, typically the first California resort to open for the season, also began snowmaking operations last night and hopes to open possibly as soon as Friday.

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