{"id":41671,"date":"2022-03-15T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sun-sets-on-hesperus-ski-lift-season\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:02:34","slug":"sun-sets-on-hesperus-ski-lift-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sun-sets-on-hesperus-ski-lift-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun sets on Hesperus ski lift season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ff63a414-179c-5fd4-b4f9-3b1c2a3044bb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"718\" alt=\"The sun has set on the Hesperus Ski Area\u2019s season. It closed its lift Tuesday because warm weather reduced the snowpack.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The sun has set on the Hesperus Ski Area\u2019s season. It closed its lift Tuesday because warm weather reduced the snowpack.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Hesperus ski area will call it a season on lift operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Horn lift closed at 6 p.m. Tuesday, but the tubing park will remain open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ski-hesperus.com\/snow-report\/\" id=\"link-ecb260fccb064ec7e872f07bc3f89ac8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snow report<\/a> to confirm tubing operations before heading to the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the ski area announced it would be open daily because of lots of fresh snow, but the warm weather has whisked it away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had hoped to remain open until March 20, but will be calling it a few days early due to warming conditions on the top of the mountain,\u201d a news release said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>forces lift to close early; tubing park will remain open conditions permitting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,866,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-41671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-hesperus","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41671","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=41671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85054,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41671\/revisions\/85054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41671"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=41671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}