Snowmaking at A-Basin
Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ Sign up for Outside+ today.

A-Basin started making snow on Sept. 25.
PHOTO: Arapahoe Basin

A-Basin is aiming for a mid-to-late October opening day.
PHOTO: Arapahoe Basin

An inch of snow was scattered on the slopes of Arapahoe Basin.
PHOTO: Arapahoe Basin

Get ready! This year A-Basin is expanding Montezuma Bowl, on the backside of the mountain, which increases the ski area’s terrain by 80 percent!PHOTO: Jodi Henry

October 1, 2007
Arapahoe Basin is racing to become the first mountain to open this season.

Last year, A Basin was the first to open, starting the season on October 13.
PHOTO: Jodi Henry

If everything goes as planned, A Basin will open sometime between mid- to late October.
PHOTO: Jodi Henry

We’re OPEN!
PHOTO: Arapahoe Basin

For the second year in a row, A-Basin is first to open.
PHOTO: Arapahoe Basin