Every year it seems like the park at Afton Alps improves a lot. Last season was no exception as they pumped out several different parks all over the resort. This edit from Conor Rose shows you a couple of the setups at Afton, plus has some good riding from Conor as a bonus. Let’s see what Afton has in store for us next season!
Afton Alps has somehow been staying open longer than anybody else in the area. They were open last Saturday in the perfect sunshine and Jerome Kuntz of Jibbing with Jerome was there with his GoPro. Check out what you missed out on while you were sleeping all day. Oh yea, and don’t forget that Afton just announced they will be open again this weekend. Get out there.
SeekJoy Productions has put together another video edit for us to enjoy. This time it is from the opening weekend at Afton Alps. Check out the footy by clicking the “read more” link below and enjoy some night time riding.
Wild Mountain announced today that they will be closing for the rest of the week due to poor snow conditions. So far they have been the only resort to open in Minnesota and the weather hasn’t been very friendly to other resorts to try and catch up. Most resorts were open at this time last year, yet they keep pushing their opening dates back this year due to warm temperatures. Hopefully we will see the temperature drop after Thanksgiving as the weather forecasters predict. I don’t know about everybody else, but it has been pretty depressing for me to watch places out west such as Mount Baker open their season with powder days. Let’s all hope for colder weather so we can start the season we’ve been waiting for all summer long. In the meantime, make sure you stop by Joe’s Boardshop tomorrow night for a rail jam and an appearance by the Salomon pro team.
Wild Mountain has now been open for 3 days, but other resorts are doing their best to catch up. I was at Wild last night and I must say I was impressed with the snow conditions for how little time they had to blow the white gold. Across the river in Wisconsin, Trollhaugen has been making snow whenever possible but hasn’t officially given an opening day yet. Down in the south, Welch Village has started making a little bit of snow and has set November 27th as their tentative opening day. Also near the Twin Cities, Afton Alps has also begun blowing snow but hasn’t predicted an opening date. It looks like there is a series of warm weather headed our way, but let’s hope that doesn’t last long so we can have more places to ride.
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