We live in Denver area and go to Copper usually once every week. This year, we got a ton of snow at the beginning of the season so most runs were open early which was great. Problem now is that we are going through a dry spell. And, when there's a dry spell you want to ski at Copper Mtn. Copper always has good snow even if it's been a week or two without new snow. Vail gets crusty, Keystone gets rocky, Breckenridge gets wind blown. But, somehow, especially in the dry years we wind up going back to Copper and if we go anywhere else we ask ourselves, "Why didn't we just go to Copper?"