Some ski areas in western Massachusetts have been open limited hours even without much in the way of natural snow and are hoping for some help from Mother Nature to reach full capacity:
Bousquet Mountain in Pittsfield was open Thanksgiving weekend, the earliest it had been in more than a decade.
"We're fortunate that we have a completely new system, so it's efficient, very energy efficient, it's state of the art," he said."A lot of it is automated, so we can turn it on and off from a computer station, which means we can get up and running quickly." At Ski Butternut in Great Barrington, the ski season hasn’t started quite yet. But, marketing director Dillon Mahon said the mountain hopes to open up soon.
Jiminy Peak in Hancock has also been open the last few weekends. Spokesperson Katie Fogel said she anticipates the facility will be open on a daily basis by the middle of this month. She said some natural snow would not only help coat the ski slopes, but it also serves an important marketing tool to bring people out to the mountain.
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