Colorado Paper Remembers the Dark Days Before Snowmaking
The nightmare before this Colorado Christmas was front-page New York Times news.
On Sunday Dec. 18, 1976, The New York Times ran a front-page story about the scarcity of snow at West Coast ski resorts. Forty years later, Colorado newspaper Steamboat Pilot & Today has revisited those times in a Sunday front-page story of its own, to remind downhill skiers and snowboarders just how tenuous things were before the industry properly invested in snowmaking machinery.
The first few paragraphs of Scott Franz’s story are as pleasurable as a sun-splashed spring season ski run:
Things looked dire for Colorado’s ski resorts in December 1976, a priest in Aspen held daily prayer services and vowed to fast until it snowed.
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