Colorado ski visits down nearly 6%, but ahead of some forecasts - Denver Business Journal:

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percent in January and February from ayear earlier, and 5.9 percenty for the full season to date, reports. But the trade group said that visits for the first two months of 2009 were slightlh abovethe five-year average for Colorado resorts. The percentagess are actually beatingsome pre-season forecasts for skier , operator of resortw in the Aspen-Snowmass area, had forecast a skied drop of 5 to 15 percentt before the season began, . Coloradoi Ski Country USA countws a person skiing or snowboarding for any part of one day at a mountainh resort as oneskier visit.
It did not releasew the number ofskier , Melanie Mills, president and CEO of Colorado Ski Country USA, said the latesft visitation figure in comparison to the multi-year trend "speaks to Colorado's worldwidre reputation as the best place to The association's figures do not include Vail, Keystone and Beaver Creek resorts, whicb have withdrawn from Colorado Ski Country USA. Vail the operator of those four resorts, said season-to-date visits were up 9 percent at Vailand 7.2 percentt at Beaver Creek, but down 1.7 percent at Breckenridge and 9.8 percengt at Keystone, .