Pikes Peak Region Trail Finder

Photo by Mark Fox, Summit Daily News

By CADDIE NATH, SUMMIT DAILY NEWS

Copper Mountain reported 9 inches of fresh powder Friday. Keystone Resort got 5 inches, Breckenridge Ski Resort reported 8 and Arapahoe Basin Ski Area received 6 inches of new snow from the short but potent storm.

The snow began to fall after sunset Thursday and accelerated early Friday morning, falling as heavily as 2 inches per hour in places around 6 a.m. Friday.

The storm, the third to bring significant snowfall to Summit County since the first of the year, helped lagging snow totals begin to catch up to yearly averages.

After December produced only 4.4 inches of snow in Breckenridge, the town has received 25.5 inches in January, exceeding the average 23.6 inches. But the 54.1 total inches of snowfall so far this season still falls well behind the 86-inch average for this point in the year and stands in stark contrast to last year's nearly record breaking season.

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