As mid-November arrives with no new snowfall at Bogus Basin, the ski area is still planning to open by Thanksgiving weekend — with help from a massive pile of snow saved from last season.
Bogus Basin has been preserving snow through a process that involves insulating it under specialized panels and blankets. Nate Shake, the director of mountain operations at Bogus Basin, said the mountain starts with “somewhere around 10-acre feet of snow” and typically ends up with “somewhere around 6-7 acre feet of snow under the tarps.”
Around the mountain, crews are transitioning from summer and fall operations to winter preparation, even as natural snowfall has yet to arrive. The stored snow is expected to play a key role in getting terrain ready…