So that's the latest iteration: Canyons Village at Park City, quite the mouth full. It started as Park City West in 1968, then became ParkWest, then Wolf Mountain which, as a name, was deemed not family-friendly enough by new owners and so was renamed The Canyons in 1997. After Vail Resorts took it over, pursuant to the disastrous Talisker ownership, it renamed it to the somewhat awkward Canyons Village at Park City.
In any case, that's where I was doing a reconnaissance hike yesterday to scope out Boa trying to assess the snow cover on that shaded slope. I did a loop so hiked up under the Condor Express lift and back down over Boa. The report is... no snow! In most spots on high Boa, there was a couple of inches, if that, and nothing on the rest. This means we will be fully dependent on new snowfall for any pre-season skiing to be possible on that slope.
In the meantime, even though it was 36⁰ F when I started my hike, snowmaking was in full swing both at the base and higher up closer to the Park City ridgeline. It seems the Thanksgiving pressure is on! Here are a couple of pictures (click to enlarge):
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| Snowmaking at the base... |
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| ...at mid-mountain... |
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| ...and up by the ridgeline. |
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