Both will be much busier over the weekend. I'm worried about finding parking at A-basin Friday through Monday this Memorial Day weekend. Should we get up early, or just come late?
Weekdays get really quiet come April after spring break ends. There are few if any visitors, so all of us working schmucks are mostly just skiing on the weekends.
Weekdays at Copper the last two weeks of the season were also like having a private resort. Other than ski patrol we were the only people in Copper and Spaulding Bowls numerous times. Then Friday-Sunday it picked up substantially. Huge difference between weekdays and weekends.
I'd love to see Copper also stay open through May. I'd hope they could make money running the Eagle and Xcellerator Friday through Sunday with the Ikon reimbursement from Alterra. Aspen is the only Colorado resort where Ikon Pass holder can ski this weekend, and they had nowhere to go last weekend.
Here's the base of Copper this morning:
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