Brief by Central Staff
Weather – January 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Central Colorado’s two ski areas — Monarch and Ski Cooper — were scheduled to open the weekend before Thanksgiving. But Mother Nature didn’t coöperate, and so the lifts didn’t start running until Dec. 11, three weeks later.
Most ski areas in Colorado were hurting for lack of snow, although the big resorts along Interstate 70 have snow-making and could thus open more or less on schedule.