El Niño illusion?

Okay, we're supposed to have “El Niño” around this winter and already, folks are salivating, thinking that snow will be fathomless and this will be another winter of endless “Pow...”

I'll admit that the stakes are increasingly high; with resorts investing millions in infrastructure, ski-towns gearing up for maximum occupancy and everyone already counting their profits, we MUST all have tons of snow, right?

Of course not, our wildest desires, our strongest prayers and our best hopes will have little effect on the actual volume of snow mother nature will actually spray upon us, come this November. So, if you don't want to be disappointed, adopt my simple maxim: Expect the worst and prepare for the best.

Trust me, even better than the promises-packed El Niño, this is the only formula that always work!