At least in California, the slopes are open during the summer.
Many ski resorts in California have reported receiving so much snow that they intend to remain open well into the summer.
This week, it was revealed that Mammoth Mountain, a well-known four-season resort in the Eastern Sierra Mountains, would remain open for skiing at least through the end of July.
Communications director Lauren Burke said this is the earliest in the year the resort has ever declared it would be open so late.
According to Burke, the ski resort was only 5 inches from shattering its 2010 season snowfall record of 668 inches.
“We aim to keep lifts spinning until as long as conditions allow, which definitely could go into August this season,” she said. “Spring skiing and riding conditions are going to be the best we’ve ever seen with the mountain in mid-winter form.”
Similar to this, Palisades Tahoe declared on Thursday that the resort’s Alpine section would remain open through the weekend of July 4. The second snowiest winter on record at Lake Tahoe was blamed for the delay.
California has recently seen extreme weather conditions. After a protracted, unprecedented megadrought, the state has been battered by intense atmospheric river storms that have unleashed a flood of rain and snow. While replenishing essential reservoirs and alleviating the drought, the deluge of moisture has also caused flooding and mudslides in some areas of the state.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency stated last week that it anticipates the increase in rain and snow in the West to end in April.
