Ski area opens for the season in Minnesota

[ski diva]

Anyone going to ski here?

Taylors Falls, MN - Perennial early opener Wild Mountain Ski Area, northeast of Minneapolis/St. Paul has blown enough manmade snow to open its slopes for eager skiers and riders today.

Once snowmaking and grooming operations are completed, Wild Mountain staffers will open one intermediate slope, Expressway, and one chairlift. Lift tickets today will be priced at $16, with rates scheduled to increase as more open terrain is available.

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Good old Wild Mt. Yep, they always had an early-open reputation, even decades ago! I think this is where DH did his first PSIA pre-certification course, and in early November. Yikes, 1975.
(Minnesota is wicked cold....)

 

[Kano]

Not this week they're not wicked cold -- I don't know how they plan to keep the snow...

Karen in Boise

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Possibly not now, but overall/generally, where the rest of the season is concerned.....they always seem to have a jump on it. So apparently, they are just upholding the tradition, as do specific others in different regions. "The Show Must Go On!"

 

[Solincia]

Good old Wild Mt. Yep, they always had an early-open reputation, even decades ago! I think this is where DH did his first PSIA pre-certification course, and in early November. Yikes, 1975.
(Minnesota is wicked cold....)

OH yes it is. As someone who went to college in Northern Wisconsin <Ashland, Northland College> I second that. Duluth is an iceberg in the winter time. I don't know how I walked the streets up there in the dead of winter shopping for art supplies.

When I was in school, they'd have 6 minute warnings... out in the open for 6 minutes, get frostbite. Not good. Especially when you're walking back and forth between buildings for classes. Too cold for class? NEVER!!!

I just checked BMBW's website... they have to have sustained 28 degrees for colder to make snow.... freeze baby freeze!!!

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Ashland!
DULUTH!
Amazing how just about every downtown bldg in Duluth is connected via over-street heated walkways! (tells you something...)

I don't think most people from the east (and definitely the west) really know how incredibly cold it gets in the upper Midwest. Man, I did a UP-MI ski week in January once, and I don't think it ever broke 0!

 

[skimomma24]

Wow... THAT is really cold!! I never realized it was that cold there, especially consistently! I'm not even sure we maintain a temperature like that all winter!

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Yep it is. Duly note that often, the coldest continental US city (i.e., not Alaska!) on many mid-winter days is International Falls, MN. It's not a whole lot warmer in the rest of the state.....

 

[Jilly]

heah - skimomma sounds like Winterpeg, I mean Winnipeg!! Actually they are pretty close! And there is a ski hill in Manitoba!