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We may not have seen snow yet in Durango, but local ski resorts are beginning to open for the season.<\/p>\n
Purgatory Resort opened Saturday, and skiers and snowboarders \u2013 and mountain bikers \u2013 were ready.<\/p>\n
The resort was scheduled to open at 9 a.m., but people started lining up at 5 a.m., Kim Oyler, Purg\u2019s director of communications, said in a news release.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome (were) even cooking bacon and eggs on the ski beach in anticipation of making first chair for the opening of ski season,\u201d Oyler said.<\/p>\n
The resort was also open for mountain biking, using lifts for both groups: Lifts 1 and 2 for skiing and Lift 4 for lift-served mountain bike trails this weekend, Oyler said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany riders had both their mountain bike gear and skis \u2013 combining two of Durango\u2019s favorite activities on the same day!\u201d<\/p>\n
Wolf Creek Ski Area opened Saturday. It plans to be open for the Thanksgiving holiday, Wednesday through Sunday.<\/p>\n
As of Saturday, the ski area has received 12 inches from the latest storm, bringing the settled midway base to 14 inches, the area said in a news release.<\/p>\n
Nova Lift, Wolf Creek\u2019s beginner double chairlift, is operating from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with both natural and manmade snow, the release said. Nova and Susan\u2019s runs are open for skiing and snowboarding with lift tickets \u2013 $28 for adults, seniors and children.<\/p>\n
Treasure and Bonanza Lifts are operating with very early season conditions. Tickets to access Treasure and Bonanza Lifts cost $48 for adults, $31 for seniors and $26 for children. Expect unmarked obstacles, the relase said.<\/p>\n
More terrain will open as conditions become available.<\/p>\n
katie@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Purgatory Resort: plans to open Wednesday through Sunday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[378,977,712,1660],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-102736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-alpine-skiing","tag-mountain-biking","tag-purgatory","tag-snowboarding"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102736"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=102736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}On the net<\/h4>\n
\n www.purgatoryresort.com<\/a>
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\n Wolf Creek Ski Area:
\n https:\/\/wolfcreekski.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"