Editor’s Note: Photos from opening day can be found here. KEYSTONE — For the first time since 1997, Keystone Resort claimed honors as the first Front Range ski area to open for the season on Friday, leaving Arapahoe Basin and Loveland to fight it out for seconds. With unseasonably warm temperatures and COVID-19 concerns clouding the start of the season, the usual assortment of opening-day diehards and familiar faces turned out to make some turns and were rewarded with T-shirt weather and 3,000 vertical feet of top-to-bottom skiing.