BEND, OR -- A few inches of snow are possible in the mountains Thursday.
Mt Bachelor’s snow-stake webcam is up again for the season. You can check out the snow accumulation at the snow-stake in real time HERE.
Operations are ramping up to aim for a Black Friday opening day.
“We're supposed to get 2 to 4 inches in the base area and even more mid mountain. So, we put our snow-stake up so that our guests can follow along and watch the snow pile up,” says the resort’s communications manager Presley Quon.
Quon tells KBND News after closing briefly for the Little Lava Fire evacuation they were able to end summer operations as normal, “Towards the end of our summer season, we had to close due to the fires just to allow the firefighters and the forest service to do their work. We feel really fortunate that we were not impacted directly by the fires.”
The weather needs to cooperate by getting colder for snow-making operations to commence. “A lot of times it can be difficult to get the snow to stick on the ,slopes. So, when we use those resources, we just want to ensure that we have the ideal conditions” she says.
Bachelor is currently closed with the slopes uncontrolled and unpatrolled.
There is heavy equipment operating on the butte now. “We have a couple of maintenance projects with the lifts. We're resplicing some haul ropes and doing some upgrades to red chair,” Quon says.
Opening day is slated for Friday, November 29th snow permitting.
