December was feast or famine for pow hounds, but a round of holiday storms has skiers and snowboarders floating high this first day of 2025.
After three weeks of measly snowfall — and temps in the 40s — almost every local ski area picked up at least two feet in the past week, with Breckenridge and A-Basin tied for the most in Summit last month:
- Breckenridge… 40” in December (124” season total)
- Arapahoe Basin… 40” (92” total)
- Loveland… 39” (105” total)
- Copper Mountain… 38” (145” total)
- Keystone… 35” (113” total)
- Vail… 31” (115” total)
- Beaver Creek… 25” (102” total)
- Winter Park… 48” (124” total)
Winter Park was deepest in the state for December with 48 inches.
Almost every local ski area is well over 100 inches for the season, except for A-Basin with 92 inches.
But even that is feet ahead of where we were last year on New Year’s Day, when A-Basin claimed just 52 inches and only Vail was in the triple digits. (All that changed in January. It was the deepest month of the season for most.)
Today Copper has the most total snowfall in Colorado with 145 inches since opening day. Every chairlift at Copper was open before first of the year. That did not happen until January last season.