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Reports last winter giving the impression of record breaking snowfall in North America and a snowless Alps do not appear to have been reflected in results published by the ski nations of Europe and North America in the aftermath of winter 2006-7. Whilst results in Europe are better than expected in most cases, the US National Ski Areas Association reported last week that preliminary figures indicated an average 6.9 percent drop in visitor numbers to the nation's ski resorts. This is down both on last season and on the ten year average figure and compares to average declines of nearer 5% published by France and Switzerland....
The reports of huge snowfalls in Colorado throughout the winter appear to have given the impression that this was the norm across the US. In fact snowfall was well below average for much of the season in most other US ski regions, particularly California and New England. Unlike in Europe, cold weather and heavy snow through April helped East Coast resorts recover some of their losses, but business on the Pacific coast was down more than 16%. Colorado will release its results next month but they are expected to be up, against the overall trend, although the heavy snowfall here did actually cause some practical difficulties including airport and key road closures.
Thanks to DailySnow.com
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Probably shouldn't print this, but we're only down 6% on last winter, which was 11%up on our best winter previously. So we did just fine. 
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, Your secret is safe with us 
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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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SMALLZOOKEEPER, Result mate.
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| Probably shouldn't print this, but we're only down 6% on last winter, which was 11%up on our best winter previously. So we did just fine. |
Are you talking about the shop?
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kkev, i concurr with Nick i had 6 weeks in the 3V's and conditions on piste were as good as i can remember, off piste thin cover little skking to be had except for post dumps.
opening day was fantastic in Mottaret, 30 cm of fresh and no one out
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