Skied The Key For My 1st Runs ~ No Snow, No Legs, Just Fun 03Nov25

Keystone has done a solid job again with snow-making early season, on the open white ribbons. There is precious little snow elsewhere out here. Despite it being 62° at the base today (I helped a chunky 5" lizard back to the sun after he'd wandered into shade & cold), I had a good time on all 3 open lifts (I didn't take Ranger) and associated runs. Snow wasn't scraped off after WE but for one smallish section, and the bottom was warm and malleable. I was surprised that even on an early Monday the River Run lot was filling up... to park on my favored N side of the lot I did take the back row. On the hill and lifts the skiers were not as noticeable and all white ribbons were navigable without incident. Woohoo; it begins. I tried to hit Last Chance on the way home but alas construction has them closed for the time being.