> 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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