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Originally Posted by gregpark
Their lease forces them to end the ski season after Easter. Its national forest land so we've run our snow mobiles up there and continued the ski season. Legal and fun. No groomed runs though ha ha
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As a CO skier in the '90s (and occasional engineering student) it just killed me how the leases would force closures in early April. Heck, March is traditionally the snowiest month in that part of the rockies. "Sorry kids, we have to close with our 130" base and endless bluebird conditions because of this law..."
April golf is ok-ish, but April skiing is awesome! So is it in May. June even from year to year.
We're getting just a little of the "river" here in north NM so we'll have at least a weekend or two more in the season. The sun and very dry winds just destroy the snowpack though. Our season is set more by the sun exposure to the slopes than anything else. Once it hits, the snow's quickly gone and we get to play fire-season.