Nice morning on the fat skis. At 6:15 AM today, the snow stake showed about 22 CM of new snow since 10 PM last night - and I was told that another 15-20 CM or so had fallen yesterday. Big crowd for opening day. When I left around noon the number one parking lot looked (from a distance) to be mostly full, and 2A was about half full. Huge line-ups at the Lodge waiting for Guest Relations or the ticket windows. They say that they expect to also open the Lions Chair - accessing Collins - before too long - but did not want to make a prediction as to what day that might be.