Beaver Creek, Vail both total about a foot of new snow

Another storm headed into Colorado late next week

Beaver Creek received more than a foot of new snow from a two-part storm that hit Wednesday and Thursday, giving the resort a good jump on prepping for opening day, Wednesday, Nov. 21.

Beaver Creek officially reported a total of 13 inches at mid-mountain, and Vail reported 11 inches. Vail opens for the season on Friday, Nov. 16.

Arapahoe Basin and Loveland are the only two ski areas in Colorado open for business, but Copper Mountain, Wolf Creek and Keystone open on Friday, Nov. 2. Breckenridge opens on Friday, Nov. 9.

The recent storm brought much colder temperatures to Vail and Beaver Creek.

"Snowmaking crews also took advantage of optimal temperatures making snow on various parts of the mountain, including the Birds of Prey downhill course," according to a Beaver Creek press release on Friday.

The next chance of snow in Colorado won't come until later next week, according to Opensnow.com.

The Birds of Prey men's World Cup races run Friday, Nov. 30 through Sunday, Dec. 2.

Both the men's and women's World Cup seasons kick off this weekend in Soelden, Austria, where Vail's Lindsey Vonn and Park City's Ted Ligety are the defending champions.

Eagle-Vail's Mikaela Shiffrin, 17, is racing at Soelden for the first time in her short World Cup career.

Bode Miller, who won in Soelden in 2004, won't be racing as he recovers from knee surgery last spring in Vail. Ski team officials hope Miller will be back in form to defend his Birds of Prey downhill title from last season.

Another Vail Olympian, 2006 moguls bronze medalist Toby Dawson, is being honored this weekend. Dawson is being inducted into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame.

	24hr snow	mid dpth	snow cond.
A-Basin	n/a	n/a
Aspen	n/a	n/a	closed
BC	n/a	n/a	closed
Breckenridge	n/a	n/a	closed
Buttermilk	n/a	n/a	closed
Copper	n/a	n/a	closed
Crest. Butte	n/a	n/a	closed
Eldora	n/a	n/a	closed
Heavenly	n/a	n/a	closed
Highlands	n/a	n/a
Howelsen	n/a	n/a	closed
Keystone	n/a	n/a	closed
Kirkwood	n/a	n/a	closed
Loveland	n/a	n/a
Monarch	n/a	n/a	closed
Northstar	n/a	n/a	closed
Powderhorn	n/a	n/a	closed
Purgatory	n/a	n/a	closed
Silverton	n/a	n/a	closed
Ski Cooper	n/a	n/a	closed
Ski Granby	n/a	n/a	closed
Snowmass	n/a	n/a	closed
Steamboat	n/a	n/a	closed
Sunlight	n/a	n/a	closed
Telluride	n/a	n/a	closed
Vail	n/a	n/a	closed
WinterPark	n/a	n/a	closed
Wolf Creek	n/a	n/a	closed
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