While many ski areas are finalizing closing plans and announcing a last day of skiing. Mount Snow in Vermont has announced that it would not set an official closing day. “As long as there’s snow on the slopes, and people on that snow, we’ll stay open,” said Mount Snow’s General Manager, Kelly Pawlak.
With that as a perameter Mount Snow could be open for quite a bit longer into spring. If you remember Peak Resorts, which purchased Mount Snow in April of 2007, spent $3.5 million upgrading its snowmaking system last summer, including 101 fan guns installed all over the mountain. Pawlak estimated that an average of four to six feet of snow is piled up on trails equipped with those fan guns.
Mount Snow was the first resort to open in Vermont for the 2007-08 season, and the first resort to open in New England with top to bottom skiing and riding. Mountain Manager Elia Hamilton stated that, as of Thursday, every single trail on the mountain was still completely covered in snow, top to bottom, edge to edge.
Discounted late season lift ticket pricing went into effect Monday, March 31, 2008. Also, skiers and riders will receive a $10 voucher good for next season, valid from opening day through December 24th, with the purchase of every full price lift ticket, or purchase a 2008/09 season pass this spring and ski or ride the rest of this season free.
photo of Mount Snow in November '07