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Aspen gets powder fix but more dry days ahead |
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Monday, January 09, 2012 11:06 |
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Photo by Ryan Slabaugh, The Aspen Times
By ANDRE SALVAIL and SCOTT CONDON, THE ASPEN TIMES
There was no need to redefine winter sports Sunday after Mother Nature dropped a coat of fresh powder on the Aspen area and its four ski mountains.
“It's about time,” visitor James Duncan said as he rode the Hunter Creek bus into downtown Aspen on Saturday evening. It was 6 p.m., the flakes were falling at a fairly rapid pace, and the bus was sliding a bit when it braked at each stop.
With the much-needed winter storm that arrived Saturday afternoon and hung around for much of the evening, the Aspen and Snowmass ski areas both picked up 9 inches of much-needed new snow, according to Aspen Skiing Co.'s snow report.
It was the first significant snowfall since Dec. 14, when 3 inches was reported at the Aspen/Pitkin County Airport, according to Tom Renwick, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction.
He noted, however, that dry weather conditions and above-average temperatures are likely to prevail over the next seven days.
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