A blast of cold air this week is good news for local ski hills and means the opening of the downhill season is close.
Kendrick McCauley, lift maintenance manager, at left, does electrical work for the snow-making machines during preparations for Saturday’s planned opening at Tyrol Basin near Mount Horeb. The machines will continue to make snow this week as overnight and daytime temperatures will be in the 20s.
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Jeremiah Jimenez, outside operations manager, works on a conveyor belt at Tyrol Basin. The ski hill could be one of the first to open in Wisconsin.
Photos from last week's northern lights show over the Madison area
A woman attempts to take a selfie with the northern lights at 9:34 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot of the Ice Age Trail in the town of Middleton.
The northern lights at 11:21 p.m. Thursday at Festge County Park between Cross Plains and Black Earth.
at 11:21 p.m. Thursday at Festge County Park between Cross Plains and Black Earth.
The headlights from a car illuminate Scherbel Road near Festge County Park at 11:41 p.m. Thursday.
On Scherbel Road near Festge County Park at 11:42 p.m. Thursday.
The northern lights dance above a farm field in the town of Berry at 11:43 p.m. Thursday.
The northern lights are seen above the town of Berry at 11:43 p.m. Thursday.
The northern lights are faint at 12:05 a.m. Friday above the building that was home to St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church from 1886 to 1989 in Cross Plains. The building is now home to the Cross Plains-Berry Historical Society.
Ice Age Trail, Timber Lane at 9:33 p.m. Thursday.
The northern lights are seen at 10:05 p.m. Thursday above Shoveler's Sink, a natural area along Mineral Point Road west of Madison.
Parks, natural areas and country roads were flooded with people Thursday night as the northern lights made a dramatic appearance for several hours. A couple is seen here at Shoveler's Sink at 10:26 p.m. trying to capture the light display along with the moon that was just above the horizon.
A spire appears at 11:19 p.m. Thursday at Festge County Park between Cross Plains and Black Earth.
The northern lights as seen at 12:33 a.m. Friday at Lake Mendota's Spring Harbor in Madison.
An angler fishes for walleye at 12:49 a.m. Friday on Lake Mendota with faint northern lights in the distance.
At 9:15 p.m. over Wexford Park on Madison's Far West Side.
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Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, 9:10 p.m. Thursday
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
The Monona side of Lake Monona at 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10.
Taken near Morrisonville around 9:30.
Taken at Sugar River at 11:35 p.m., Oct.10.
James Royea with Gizmo
Hidden View Trail, Verona
Oct 10. 9:30pm
Taken at Tenney Park in Madison, 9 p.m. Oct. 10.
UW students photographing the northern lights while standing on the piers behind the Porter Boathouse, along the Howard Temin Lakeshore Path. 10:46 p.m. Oct. 10.
