PHOTOS: Breckenridge rounds out Summit County opening days with mid-week opening

Breckenridge residents Rae Moody and John McNamee have been to many opening days at Breckenridge Ski Resort. The New Zealand natives have lived in Colorado for 25 years and in Breckenridge for more than 10, but neither could remember an opening day quite like this year’s edition. Insufficient snowmaking conditions leading up to Breckenridge’s usual opening — the first Friday of November — caused the resort to delay its opening from Nov. 6 to the next Wednesday. Sarah McLear, the senior communications manager for Keystone and Breckenridge resorts, said the resort wanted to open as soon as it could, which turned out to be mid-week. “Our snowmaking team was seeing smaller snowmaking windows,” McLear said.

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