{"id":50688,"date":"2020-10-28T17:07:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/purgatory-resort-cranks-up-snowmaking-operations\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T23:07:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:07:02","slug":"purgatory-resort-cranks-up-snowmaking-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/purgatory-resort-cranks-up-snowmaking-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Purgatory Resort cranks up snowmaking operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=18755bf8-b81c-4f68-9912-3993cc930df0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Purgatory Resort has begun snowmaking operations in anticipation of its Nov. 21 opening.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Purgatory Resort has begun snowmaking operations in anticipation of its Nov. 21 opening.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Purgatory Resort<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A storm that hit the region earlier this week brought a dusting of snow to the resort north of Durango, with the summit receiving a few inches.<\/p>\n<p>The storm also brought cold enough temperatures to allow Purgatory Resort to start making snow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are planning on making snow every night moving forward as long as Mother Nature cooperates and gives us good temperatures,\u201d Sam Williams, senior director of mountain operations, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Purgatory plans to open Nov. 21.<\/p>\n<p>The snowstorm also brought enough snow for Wolf Creek Ski Area to begin a limited opening this week.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_tagline\">Herald Staff<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purgatory Resort has begun snowmaking operations in anticipation of its Nov. 21 opening.Courtesy of Purgatory Resort A storm that hit the region earlier this week brought a dusting of snow to the resort north of Durango, with the summit receiving a few inches. The storm also brought cold enough temperatures to allow Purgatory Resort to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,712,1164,4502,372],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-50688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-purgatory","tag-snow","tag-talk-about-town","tag-wolf-creek-ski-area"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50688","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=50688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50688"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=50688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}