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Skiers frustrated by low snowpack line up to go tubing |
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012 09:54 |
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Photo by Jason Blevins, The Denver Post
By JASON BLEVINS, THE DENVER POST
The riders waited for hours at the Fraser Tubing Hill and the Colorado Adventure Park in Grand County. They spent $25 an hour at the Frisco Adventure Park, where last week's line to ride stretched up the hill.
When the snow is thin at ski areas, nearby tubing hills thrive.
"I'm just kind of unmotivated to ski right now," said Erin Pier of Denver, preparing to slide at Frisco's tubing hill after a morning of skiing with a visiting friend. "He doesn't know how to ski, and really, you don't want to learn on ice. So we thought, let's go tubing."
Thousands of visitors in the Fraser Valley had the same idea, where two adjacent tubing hills saw brisk business over the holidays. The wait for a one-hour tubing session at the Fraser Tubing Hill was four hours on the day after Christmas. Each of the hill's 140 tubes earned almost $200 a day for the tubing operation.
"It's been pretty good this year," said the hill's Cheryl Mendoza. "We had a three- to four-hour wait all week. All of our tubes are out on the snow all day."
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