Best year in 10 years for NE, rockies, and maybe midwest.  That *is*
pretty good.  Guess the industry doesn't care about powdery Octobers or
Aprils like some of us do.  

- Patrick
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vermont Skiing Discussion and Snow Reports 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Skip King
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:43 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [SKIVT-L] Record year for the ski industry
> 
> > You wrote:
> >> It should be borne in mind that the Northeast and Mid
> >> Atlantic regions had
> >> wretched years last year - worst in a decade in the Northeast, and
> >> second-worst for the Mid Atlantic - and that last year's 
> Pacific West
> >> totals were the weakest in the past decade.
> >
> > Can you give us the two or five-year trends then, Skip?
> >
> > - Patrick
> 
> Last 10 years, in millions.  This is a FAST transcription 
> from a graph and
> should not be taken as gospel (besides, the 2007-2008 numbers are
> preliminary ones).
> 
> Northeast: 12.3  12.0  13,7  12.2  14.0  12.9  13.7  12.5  11.8  14.1
> Mid Atl: 3.3  5.2  5.5  5.0  5.8  5.6  5.5  5.8  4.9  5.2
> Midwest:  6.0  6.4  7.6  7.0  8.1  7.8  7.5  7.8  7.2  8.1
> Rockies:  18.4  18.1  19.3  18.1  18.7  18.9  19.6  20.7  20.8  21.3
> Pac West:  11.1  10.5  11.3  12.1  10.9  11.9  10.6  12.0  10.3  11.4
> 
> Worthy of note:  Vermont and New York were up 15 and 19%, 
> resepctively. 
> 10 year average in the Northeast is 12.9 mm.  So this year 
> represents 9%
> increase over that average.  This year's Rocky Mountain totals were an
> all-time record.  Snowboarding increased slightly from 30.7 percent of
> total visits to 31.6 percent.
> 
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