Yes, you can go skiing in the Las Vegas area, up at Mount Charleston, which is about a 45 minute drive or less from the Las Vegas Valley and it opened for the season yesterday.
From the LVRJ: Jack Bean has waited 45 years to see the Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort grow into its name and the basin surrounding it.
For
that reason, Friday wasn't just the season opener for him but also
marked the beginning of potential realized - at last - for the
little-known Mount Charleston resort within an hour of tourist mecca Sin
City.
Friday welcomed the first changes in a $35 million
expansion that will take a decade to complete. The expansion will double
the skiable area to 700 acres, adding 20 trails and six lifts, Bean
said Friday morning while sitting on the resort's deck at 6725 Lee
Canyon Road.
"It's going to put us on the map. It's not going to
be a hidden treasure anymore," said Bean, who started as a busboy at the
resort in 1967 and worked his way up to director of mountain
operations.
14 NEW RUNS
This year, skiers will have 14 new
runs, but none had enough snow to open Friday. The only open run, The
Strip, relied entirely on artificial snow produced by a snow-making
system that now discharges 500 gallons of water per minute.
Snow
output will be increased to 2,000 gallons per minute next year, which
will allow four runs to open without much snowfall, according to Kevin
Stickelman, president and general manager.
It's not that nature
doesn't provide. An average of 240 inches of snow falls per ski season ,
he said. It just hasn't come yet this season. http://www.lvrj.com/news/mount-charleston-resort-beginning-to-realize-potential-180657941.html
In Las Vegas, you can go skiing in the morning, then drive an hour and go fishing, boating or swimming at Lake Mead and then go out on the town at the Strip, Fremont St. or any other place in town. How many other cities can offer that?
Here is the ski resort's web site: http://www.skilasvegas.com/winter/index.html
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