The season is over, my skis are put away and I hear that the past winter season wasn't that great after all. In Utah, skier days were down 4.9% from the previous season at 3,946,762 million skier days. The record was in 2007–2008, an amazing snow year, at 4,249,190.
Nationally, skier days were down too, from 56.5 million to 53.6 million, a 5 percent decrease from the previous season because of severe drought on the Pacific Coast and part of the Rockies.
The national record is 60.6 million in 2010-2011. In Utah the annual snowfall was 41% of average, a record low only matched in 1976-1977!
In spite of these grim figures, I managed to ski a record number of 114 days (my personal best) and 2,014,976 vertical feet, my second biggest season (2,047,381 feet in 2009/2010) proving that snow cover has little to do with how much one skis!
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