Sunday's Bay Area storm brought lots of snow to the Sierra. Enough for some resorts to start talking about opening day for the 2010 ski season.
The higher elevations got about a foot of snow over the weekend. It was enough to stick through to Monday morning at the base of Squaw Valley along Highway 89. Boreal in the mountains reported almost a foot of new snow by midnight Sunday.
Closer to the lake, the slopes of Heavenly also got about a foot of new snow. Heavenly credits La Nina and a good snow-making system for making it able to open, weather permitting, a week from Friday, Nov. 19.
"These early storms are great for creating that base we’re going to need to get open by November 19," said Heavenly's John Wagnon.
The snow seemed to get all of the resorts on alert to get those snow machines up and working. The long Thanksgiving holiday is less than three weeks away.
