Steamboat Ski Area snowfall breaks 400-inch mark
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- Created on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 15:08
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By MIKE LAWRENCE, STEAMBOAT PILOT & TODAY
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Mid-mountain snowfall at Steamboat Ski Area topped 400 inches for the season Sunday, surpassing the powdery milestone for the third time in the past four winters and the eighth time since 1980.
A Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. news release stated that Sunday’s storm dropped 6 inches of new snow at mid-mountain, pushing the season’s mid-mountain total to 401 inches two weeks before Closing Day on April 10.
Eighty-two of those inches fell in October and early November, before the ski area opened for Scholarship Day on Nov. 24.
Ski Corp. stated that snow has fallen on Mount Werner on 100 of 154 days since Oct. 23, with at least 4 inches recorded on 42 of those days.
This season’s total tally is another landmark in a series of consistently big-snowfall winters, the likes of which Steamboat hadn’t seen since the mid-’90s.
While the 2009-10 season saw just 261.75 inches fall at mid-mountain, the ski area recorded a total of 405 inches in 2008-09 and the record tally of 489 inches in the memorable winter of 2007-08.
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