Friday Feb 08, 2019

What a night and morning. Last night the temp quickly dropped below zero and this caused the Keystone Resort to cancel their night skiing because of safety reasons. Along with this, the restaurants at the top of the mountain also cancelled dinner reservations. In the morning the temp was -8 degrees. But because of a gas lick in Fresco, a power outage occurred at the ski resorts of Keystone, Breckenridge, A-Basin and to a lesser degree Copper Mtn. All of the lifts stopped running; the buildings in the resorts went dark and there were no immediate timeframes as to when power would be restored. Many of the local restaurants were also affected. Around 11am, power was slowly restored and we went to Copper Mtn to ski. While it was frigid in Dillon, when we got to Copper, it was 25 degrees warmer. It became a great day of skiing. I believe that many people heard that Keystone was closed and traveled to Copper. You could tell by the number of cars in the parking lots and the number of people at the lift lines. We skied about 2 hours  and returned home and got ready to go to the Dam Brewery to talk about the power outages. Hopefully there are no longer lasting problems and that the cause has been resolved. Another sunny day is forecast with warmer temps for tomorrow.