Steamboat Ski Area ends season as it started
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- Created on Monday, 11 April 2011 16:17
- Written by Nathan
By JACK WEINSTEIN, STEAMBOAT PILOT & TODAY
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Of course, it was a powder day.
And why not? At the end of a season in which 433 inches of snow fell at Steamboat Ski Area, it was only fitting that Sunday brought eight inches of powder that had fallen at mid-mountain since the previous morning, including 5 inches since 5 a.m., according to the last snow report of the 2010-11 season.
Fort Collins resident Bredt Eggelston, who was skiing with his wife, Jenny, called Closing Day “perfect.”
“It’s the way I remember the last days of the year, typically,” said Eggleston, who grew up in Steamboat Springs. “It’s powder and snowing, and you wonder why they’re going to close.”
Steamboat eclipsed the 400-inch mark March 27, the third time in four years. Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. spokesman Mike Lane said because the official snow total was recorded at 5 a.m. Sunday, the last five inches weren’t applied. This year’s snowfall surpassed the 2009-10 season total of 261.75 inches during a storm way back on Jan. 31.
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