Colorado skiing: It's been thriving for years

Aspen gets highest rise in Colorado skier visits | News |Aspen Times Online News

According to Aspen Skiing Co. spokesman Jeff Hanle, the company’s mountains logged 1,470,997 skier visits for the season, up 1.8 percent from the previous season. (A skier visit represents a person participating in the sport of skiing or snowboarding for any part of one day at a mountain resort.) The increase continues a general growth trend that has lasted for six years or so.
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On a statewide basis, ski resorts logged their second-best year ever, according to CSCUSA. The best year was 2006-07, when 12,566,299 skiers or snowboarders hit the state’s slopes; the third-best year ever was 2005-06, with 12,533,108 skier visits.
The CSCUSA reports include numbers from Vail Resorts, Inc., which dropped out of the trade group in May. Vail Resorts owns Vail Mountain, Beaver Creek, and the Keystone and Breckenridge ski areas.