![]() ![]() And the weather is less reliable today than in 1946. Today there are over 470 ski resorts in the United States. ![]() The weather in New England was too unreliable. Investment in infrastructure was small, and in some winters, Vermont lacked sufficient snow for a ski season. Coleman wrote that article in Vermont Life, there were only 90 ski areas in North America. The problem for the ski industry, and their compatriots in government, is the inherent instability of snow and the frustrating unpredictability of snowfall. But only when it is in the right place, in the right amount, and at the right time. Snowmaking uses a lot of water, but the money from winter tourism stopped the county, the Forest Service, and the state from preventing these resorts from pulling water from precariously low streamflows. On October 12 of this year, after the first snow, Loveland, Copper, and Arapahoe Basin in Colorado all fired up their snow guns despite the summer-long drought and the five forest fires still burning in the state. Today states throughout the country embrace this rationale. And when people skied, Vermonters profited. 3 – DOI: įollowing World War II, snow was so valuable to Vermont tourism that a writer for Vermont Life called it “white gold.” With snow, the author reasoned, people could ski. January 5th, 2021 by: Jesse Ritner Chilling the Industry ![]()
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