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. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > SkiVt-L is brought to you by the University of Vermont. > > To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SkiVt-L is brought to you by the University of Vermont. To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html