Is Aspen Over? Another Year of Poor Snow Has Loyalists Rethinking Trips
Boutique ski resorts, meanwhile, are seeing a spike in demand — and so, too, is South America.
Skiers who’ve soured on iconic resort towns such as Aspen, where snow has been slim for much of the winter, are entertaining alternatives like Sundance, Utah.
Source: Sundance Mountain ResortFlying to Aspen, Colorado, has always meant rolling the dice on weather. But in recent years the conversation has shifted: Gone are the days when you wondered if snowstorms would prevent your flight from landing. Now you worry whether there’s enough snow on the ground to ski at all.
By mid-February the resort town had gotten a meager 105 inches of snowfall for the season, 35 inches short of its average this time of year. From the Deep Temerity chairlift you could see swaths of brown, with skiers bouncing on rocks, saplings and dirt patches below.