The snow conditions for Alyeska Resort are significantly better than a year ago today, when the mountain only had 19 inches of snow at the top which delayed the opening day.
Today the top has 11 more inches of powder and a good base at the bottom, meaning the resort will open on Thursday, November 26, according to Alyeska’s Eric Fullerton.
Fullerton: “We rode all the lifts and skied the main trails off the lifts just to kind of assess the situation and crews continue to prep the runs and I can tell you it’s a thousand times better than where we were this time last year. And actually some of it looks and feels better than it did all year last year.”
Fullerton says the extreme terrain will not be opened on Thanksgiving Day but the resort hopes all the trails will be opened by the end of the week.
He added that some of the mixed precipitation that the Kenai Peninsula is seeing could hit the mountain but the mountain’s base layer is enough that it should not affect the quality of the trails much.
Click here for a preview video of Alyeska trails from Monday.
