![]() ![]() More than 500 of those acres opened to skiers and snowboarders for the 2013-2014 winter season following the development of Peak 6, visible in the detailed view above. Since then, Breckenridge Ski Resort has expanded to nearly 3,000 skiable acres, 34 chair lifts, and 191 trails. Peak 8 Ski Area, as it was named at the time, consisted of 1,764 acres, one chair lift, and fewer than 10 trails. Peak 8 was the first to be developed and opened to skiers in December 1961. The slopes of five of these peaks-Peak 6 through Peak 10-are within the Breckenridge resort. The Tenmile Range is named for the distance spanned by ten of the range’s peaks, each about a mile apart and named in numerical order. However that’s not the case everywhere, and the state’s varied topography can lead to vastly different amounts of snow cover. As of mid-May, the snow water equivalent-the depth of water in the snowpack if it were all melted-was very close to the 1981–2010 average in the Breckenridge and Copper Mountain areas. This is typical for the Tenmile Range, which retains snow at higher elevations into the summer months. Notice that even in May, the trails are still blanketed in white. ![]() Part of the Copper Mountain resort is also visible in the lower-left corner. More than 100 trails sweep down the eastern side of Tenmile Range, a portion of the Southern Rocky Mountains located about 60 miles (100 kilometers) west-southwest from Denver. On May 1, 2021, an astronaut on board the International Space Station shot this photograph of Breckenridge Ski Resort in Colorado. ![]() Even the way we play is visible from hundreds of miles above. Looking down from space, the human presence is starkly apparent in how we light our cities, transport our manufactured products, and grow our food. This post first appeared on the NASA Earth Observatory website Breckenridge Ski Area, CO, from space! Credit: NASA ![]()
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