Sunday, January 16, 2011

Snow, skiing and global warming?

While the Alps are in right to wonder about the (melting) relationship between snow and climate change,
America has been blessed so far with a normal winter except perhaps for the usual eccentric behavior in large cities that never were in the snow-removal business, but to this day, nothing is too alarming in terms of a dwindling snow cover.

Am I in denial of man-produced climate change? Not in the least, but I feel that until now we've been lucky to dodging the bullet at our mountain resorts. The only thing that I have observed is that warmer spring conditions seem to have come earlier in recent years and that the snow melts at an impressive rate of speed during the months of May and June. This said, our Utah skiing remains great and I hope this condition continues at least for another two or three decades!

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