Arapahoe Basin is able to stay open late for many obvious reasons. The front side of the mountain is North facing and at a very high elevation. To top that off we gets lots of snow and we have a small, but very good snowmaking system. What is not quite so obvious is all the work that our team of cat drivers do. For the last several weeks of the season, they diligently doze, push and consolidate the trails that we finish the season with. These also happen to be the trails with snowmaking. Every year, the drivers are solely responsible for extending the season a few weeks. They are magicians with those blades.
