Photo: Loveland on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2007

Opening Day: Tuesday, October 16, 2007

It’s looking great here at Loveland Ski Area. The storm that moved in Saturday night left us with over a foot of fresh snow. As you can see on the photo page, our new snowcats are out on the trails and you know that means-opening day is on it’s way! That’s right, Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Loveland Ski Area will be open for business with awesome early season snow.

Every season Loveland Ski Area starts making snow as soon as temperatures reach consistent lows, typically in late September. Snowmaking has several great benefits for our skiers and riders. First, we are able to open in Mid to Late October, making Loveland Ski Area consistently one of the first ski areas in the country to open. Second, you don’t have to bother with using your “old stuff” for our early season. Loveland opens with a minimum base of 18 inches and side-to-side, top to bottom coverage on our 1,000 vertical foot opening day run; those opening day adages didn’t start here! Last but certainly not least, Loveland’s 160 acres of snowmaking provides a solid base and something cold to stick to when the first of our 400 inches of natural snow begins to fall – no powdery snowflake is wasted at Loveland.

Our help from New Zealand has arrived! Just after we fired up our snowguns on September 24th, our snowmakers from New Zealand began arriving. These snowmaking experts follow winter around the globe and help ensure that once the conditions are right we have round the clock experienced snowmakers on our mountain doing what they do best.

Click Here for the latest snowmaking pictures.