Salt Lake City, UT – This is the time of year when we love gathering photos of pre-season and early season snow to share the stoke with all of you. If you’re favorite ski hill isn’t open yet, the wait is almost over!
U.S. ski and snowboard resort openings thus far this fall include:
Arapahoe Basin, CO
Loveland Ski Area, CO
Sugar Mountain, NC
Wild Mountain, MN
Sunday River, ME
Killington, VT
Opening day of the season today at Sunday River, Maine (photo: Sunday River)
Killington’s K-1 Gondola.(file photo: Killington Resort)
Whistler Blackcomb on Saturday (photo: Mitch Winton/Coast Mountain Photography)
Alta, Utah this morning (photo: Joe Johnson)
Angel Fire’s snowmaking will soon supplement the natural snow on higher terrain in northern New Mexico (photo: Angel Fire Resort)
Fresh snow this morning in Aspen, Colo. (photo: Jeremy Swanson)
Brian Head, Utah’s new Giant Steps Express chairlift appears ready to go. (photo: Brian Head Resort)
Four inches of new snow today at Crested Butte in Colorado. (photo: CBMR)
Winter can’t be far away in northern Vermont at Jay Peak. (photo: Jay Peak Resort)
(file photo: Breckenridge Resort)
The mountain is beginning to look white this morning at Kirkwood in California. (photo: Kirkwood Mountain Resort)
Snow guns roared to life this morning at Loon Mountain in New Hampshire (photo: Loon Mountain)
Mammoth Mountain reported weekend storm totals that exceeded a foot (photo: Peter Morning/MMSA)
At Snowbird, Utah on Sunday. (photo: Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort)
9″ of new snow was reported at Squaw Valley, Calif. on Sunday (photo: Squaw Valley)
Sugarbush snowmakers prepare for the season today in Vermont (photo: Sugarbush Resort)
Heavenly’s snowmakers were laying down a base on Sunday high above Lake Tahoe. (photo: Heavenly Resort)
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