{"id":106225,"date":"2016-03-15T15:50:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hesperus-ski-area-closed-for-the-season\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T15:50:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T21:50:30","slug":"hesperus-ski-area-closed-for-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hesperus-ski-area-closed-for-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Hesperus Ski Area closed for the season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=dd1e55ee-d24d-42be-8daa-cf566c967298&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=dd1e55ee-d24d-42be-8daa-cf566c967298&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=dd1e55ee-d24d-42be-8daa-cf566c967298&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=dd1e55ee-d24d-42be-8daa-cf566c967298&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1450\" alt=\"After more than two months, Hesperus Ski Area closed for the 2015-16 season Monday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">After more than two months, Hesperus Ski Area closed for the 2015-16 season Monday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jardyn Angell\/The Journal file photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Hesperus Ski Area, located 12 miles west of Durango on U.S. Highway 160, closed for the season Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Hesperus, known locally for its night skiing, was open for more than 65 days this season, a huge improvement from a year ago when the ski area closed Feb. 16 after an unreasonably warm winter and Chinook winds.<\/p>\n<p>This year, rain and high daytime temperatures brought an end to Hesperus\u2019 season. This year, early-season storms helped Hesperus stay open until early March, and it usually targets the middle of March for its closing day. A dry and warm February made it difficult to last any longer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate our season pass holders, our home school groups, our media contacts, our Facebook friends and all who support Hesperus Ski Area. Have a great summer,\u201d owner Jim Pitcher said in an email to The Durango Herald.<\/p>\n<p>Hesperus opened for the season Dec. 23 to more than twice the amount of snow it had opening day a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:heraldsports@durangoherald.com\">heraldsports@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>saw more than 65 days of operation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5742,5735],"tags":[866],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-106225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-hesperus"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106225","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=106225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106225"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=106225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}