CHARLEVOIX COUNTY -- Boyne Mountain Ski Resort in Boyne City, says they has seen some of the best snow conditions in the last 12 years. They say because of this years excellent conditions they will have more than 250 skiable areas and 42 trails open to skiers and snowboarders this weekend. General Manager Ed Grice says, "the terrain we've got open this weekend we can thank mother nature certainly for the help in that and the new snow guns, the new e-low snow guns that we have have performed wonderfully enabling us to open up as much as we possibly can." According to Ed they have never before opened this many trails by the first weekend in December.