March 2008 issue of Ski Area Management
Snowshoe is doomed by climate change, according to the enviro director of Aspen Skiing Company, Auden Schendler. His blunt prediction: “Snowshoe— gone,” came in the March 2008 edition of Ski Area Management magazine. There, he also predicted that Stowe would get “more rain than snow,” that Park City will be in “worse shape” than Aspen due to its lower elevation, and that skiing in Europe’s lower elevations will be “gone.” He gives no timetable in the interview, but asks rhetorically, “How many more years like the last four [2004-07] could the East Coast take before it says this isn’t a viable business?” Of course, Schendler is such a doom-and-gloomer that he also predicts that “the economic impact of climate change will kill skiing long before lack of snow does.”
Snowshoe isn’t doomed; it just needs to make some more snow. And more snow… and more snow… and more snow.