Mount Vail completes longest season on record with snow to spare – Do you stand out for that?
Fresh debris fell to a 47-inch-high foothill on the rare May Closing Day
Vail ended the longest season on record in casual Closing Day fashion on Sunday, with hundreds of skiers and snowboarders celebrating atop the mountain.
And although it was a rare month of closure, the weather turned out to be March-like, with wind and snow creating frigid conditions on the slopes.
Many closing day traditions were on display. Local Chad Anderson has ridden his Sims 1600 FE SERIES snowboards from the 1980s with original laces.
End of season skiing looks like a lot of fun, big party with lots of costumes and I’m sure alcohol too.
To see the outfit, go to the original post
But for that languishing prediction that kids won’t know what snow is:
By the end of December, conditions had improved considerably. Part of the Back Bowls opened on December 28, with Mount Vail at the time reporting nearly 2 feet of snow over a one-week period.
Vail finished the season recording a total of 264 inches; The mountain on its trail map has an average area of 350 inches. The base in the middle of the mountain on closing day is 47 inches and top-to-bottom accessibility from the top of Seat 4 to the end of the Lionshead gondola.
The cold in the air aided many Vail Mountain and US Forest Service employees, who began pulling the crowd out of the mountain at 4 p.m.
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