141 | The Return of Winter: First Snowfall in Colorado

Exactly four weeks from today, Loveland and Arapahoe Basin will be jockeying for position over which will be able to claim this year's title of the first North American ski area to open for the 2009/2010 season. Long been a tradition, last year saw both locales share the distinction on October 15, 2008 with plenty of Front Range cubicle junkies taking the morning off for office bragging rights. Anticipation for the WROD (short for white ribbon of death) grows anxiously once summer ends, and this feeling is even more exaggerated by the first white caps of the new season. Below are a couple photos from my buddy Chad depicting the scenery in Park and Summit Counties, just southwest of Loveland and A-Basin.


Mount Bross (14,172 feet)and Mount Lincoln (14,286) in the Mosquito Range:





Quandary Peak (14,265) in the Tenmile Range: