April snowfall makes for a snow-covered final weekend at Eldora Mountain

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — A higher-than-average snowpack has been good to ski areas around the state.

The latest round of snowfall was a welcome sight for the Eldora Ski Mountain Resort, which will close for the season on Sunday.

“Snow coverage was decent all year long, we never got a big, whopping storm but we had a great, consistent coverage, two to three inches every couple of days,” Sam Bass, at Eldora, said.

That was enough snowfall to mark the end of a good year at the ski resort.

“It was better than last year,” Bass said. “I think we ended up totaling about 200 inches, just over 200 inches this year. Last year was a little closer to 150.”

The state saw 130%…