![Torch light down Monarch Mountain last night. Monarch was one of the few Colorado ski areas that was able to wring more than one or two inches out of this latest "storm".](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/1a/15/1a151ba4a2d13cfee6934432e9e8adde.jpg?itok=5PVl0s99 "Torch light down Monarch Mountain last night. Monarch was one of the few Colorado ski areas that was able to wring more than one or two inches out of this latest "storm".")
We hate to ring in the New Year on a sour note, so we won’t. Telluride and Wolf Creek picked up some nice new snow over the past 24 hours, which you can see in this morning’s Colorado Ski and Snow Report. Sweet!
Now that we avoided a bummer opening, let’s get real… We expected so much more out of this latest storm than what we got. We didn’t expect anything unusual or totally epic, if you will; just a nice dousing of snow statewide before dry weather settles over Colorado for the rest of the week.
There will be lingering scattered snow showers here and there over the next couple of days that shouldn’t amount to much, then the spigot turns off for awhile, at least through the weekend and into early next week.
Here are the 24-hour and 48-hour totals, in that order, from Colorado’s ski areas. We’ll post a terrain update tomorrow with hopes that more ski resorts will get closer to 100 percent open…
Arapahoe Basin: 1”, 1 1/4”
Aspen Highlands: 1”, 1”
Aspen Mountain: 2”, 2”
Beaver Creek: 1”, 1”
Breckenridge: 1”, 1”
Buttermilk: 1”, 1”
Copper Mountain: 1”, 1”
Crested Butte: 0”, 0”
Durango Mountain Resort: 2”, 4”
Eldora: 0”, 0”
Keystone: 2”, 2”
Loveland: 1/2”, 1”
Monarch: 3”, 5”
Powderhorn: 2”, 6”
Ski Granby Ranch: 1/2”, 1/2”
Snowmass: 3”, 3”
Steamboat: 2 1/2”, 3 1/2”
Sunlight: 1”, 2”
Telluride: 7”, 8”
Vail: 3”, 3”
Winter Park: 3”, 3”
Wolf Creek: 9”, 15”
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