ready for ski season

We enjoyed our skiing / snowboarding so much last winter, that this year we have signed up for discount passes at a couple of local resorts. We bought a 5-day "cherry picker" pass to The Canyons, that allows us to use the resort 5 times during the season on any day we choose. The Canyons is a huge resort in Park City with lots of runs so it offers some good variety to our other more "local" resorts. As you can see from the pic I took today the resort has already had some snow (21" so far). In fact we've had some pretty good early season snowfall here. Last year we had no snow on the ground at Thanksgiving. Alta (the highest resort) has had 57.5" with more snow falling today and Snowbird (same canyon as Alta) has already opened. Solitude (30" so far) is due to open on November 14th so we're planning to use our Solitude "custom" season pass (ski every Thursday) to get our first ski day in before Thanksgiving.