Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Skiers ride a ski lift at Big Powderhorn Mountain in Ironwood Township on Thursday, one of the ski hill's last days of operation for the season. A lack of seasonal snow and warmer than usual temperatures caused the ski hill to close Sunday. Many other ski hills in the area have also closed.
By P.J. GLISSON
In what has been called a no-snow or low-snow winter, area ski hills are ending a short season early.
In Wisconsin, Whitecap Mountains Resort in Upson closed on March 1.
In Gogebic County, Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort and Mt. Zion Ski Hill closed on Sunday. The latter is on the campus of Gogebic Community College.
In Ontonagon County, the Porcupine Mountains Ski Area and Adventure Mountain - due to their reliance only on natural snow - have each been open only a handful of days throughout the meager season that now features more grass than snow.
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