With 60-degree temperatures and intense sunshine beating down throughout the day, Vail Village might not have seemed like a place that was ready to host skiers and snowboarders on Friday.

But 2,000 vertical feet higher on Vail Mountain, the man-made snow surface was well prepared for the resort’s Opening Day, and crowds were pleasantly surprised with how well it was riding.

Both the Swingsville and Ramshorn runs were open, and Ramshorn was bisected into two different runs at the bottom, reducing any possibility of a potential bottleneck as skiers and snowboarders approached the chairlift.

The Mountain Top Express (Chair 4) was the only chair running out of Mid-Vail, which served as the base area, and with two loading points, there were no lines longer than a few minutes throughout the day.

Vail Mountain also had a separate ski area operating out of Lionshead Village at the top of the Eagle Bahn gondola. The resort already had a few people taking lessons on Opening Day, with those lessons taking place around the Little Eagle lift (Chair 15), except for one.

A longer version of this story was originally published by Vail Daily.