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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I guess most established businesses can withstand a couple of bad seasons.
The real question is: is this just a couple of bad seasons or is this just how things are going to be now with the changing climate?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Peter S, funny, I could have sworn it's been dumping snow here in Laax for the last 3 days.... I read the article and there's certainly nothing new in it.
@acrim, from my own totally unscientific observations, all the seasons here seem to have been shifting back by about a month over the last few years. The ski industry is still geared up for a season running from early Dec to early to mid April - presumably to catch the Christmas travellers - but following a not uncommon early snow around the end of Oct/beginning of Nov, the real snow seems to have started properly just after New Year and it's kept snowing until late April. Certainly we couldn't start lake sailing until well into May last season because it kept snowing!
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The issue seems to be that Christmas and New Year are just too important to the skiing economy. It seems that people have come to rely on skiing at that time of year and That it is now responsible for 30% of annual income. That means the industry is now reliant on early snow cover.
Perhaps The clever move would be to find a way of moving that business later into the season when cover is more reliable.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Skied on the first artificial snow in the UK in a factory unit in Telford Shropshire in the 80's when it was in it's development phase. Remember paying 5 pounds to ski from a crouching position in the roof for an hour. Glad to have been instrumental in the development of this technology.
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| eng_ch wrote: |
| @Peter S,@acrim, from my own totally unscientific observations, all the seasons here seem to have been shifting back by about a month over the last few years. The ski industry is still geared up for a season running from early Dec to early to mid April - presumably to catch the Christmas travellers - but following a not uncommon early snow around the end of Oct/beginning of Nov, the real snow seems to have started properly just after New Year and it's kept snowing until late April. Certainly we couldn't start lake sailing until well into May last season because it kept snowing! |
So the answer's simple then; we just put Christmas and New Year back a month... 
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Easter to be the New Christmas for resorts
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