Fired up: Snow falls on Wintergreen, sticks at Snowshoe

By Hawes Spencer |
Published online 2:46pm Monday Oct 31st, 2011
and in print issue #1044 dated Thursday Nov 3rd, 2011

If you look really close near the top of this 2:04pm October 31 photo, you may be able to see the Upper Cliffhanger and Upper Wild Turkey slopes. (Click for larger image.)

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It may be hard to see in this photograph shot from downtown Charlottesville on Halloween afternoon; but even two days after a rare October snowfall, the slopes of Wintergreen Resort still gleam. The planned seasonal opening of Nelson County ski resort is Saturday, December 10. (Over in Snowshoe, West Virginia, the snow guns were fired up on Friday, October 28, so the nearly foot of snow that fell there appears well on its way to assisting that resort's planned November 23 opening.)