1st big weekend for local resorts.

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Finally, the Twin Cities area has had some decent enough weather (and even a little natural snow) for local resorts to make some white stuff. This weekend seems to be “the weekend” for local resorts such as Afton, Welch and Buck Hill to open, and a lot of people are excited. This weekend will be many rider’s first time out this season.

Other resorts that have been open, like Wild and Trollhaugen, will have more runs opening. A couple of the rideMinnesota guys are headed to late night Trollhaugen tonight for their 10pm to 3am session for $15.

View Trollhaugen’s Twitter page that got us excited here: @The__Troll.

Please bring us some cold weather!

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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.

Real snow in October!

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I’m sure plenty of you were excited this morning when you woke up to a nice covering of the white stuff.   The couple inches of snow this morning was exactly what we needed to get even more stoked about the new snow season to come.  Get those boards and skis waxed up and keep checking the site to see which resort opens first.  Trollhaugen and Wild Mountain have already started making snow but the forecast doesn’t look great for progress.  Keep your fingers crossed for colder temps and tell those complainers to move somewhere else…  Enjoy the picture of snowy runs courtesy of Welch Village.