The state's overall snow pack is about 40 percent of its normal level, the lowest since 1988.
He ran on, his light steps keeping him atop the snow pack.
With a deeper snow pack, nearly 10,000 skiers would have bought tickets.
A study concluded that snow pack was 29% of average in 2007.
It is claiming the best snow pack in five years, although the extreme terrain wasn't open early this week.
The whooping wind had cleared both of their snow pack so he was able to read them.
Best to have the group below the cloud and at the edge of the real snow pack anyway.
At one point the snow pack was measured as weighing more than 25 pounds per square foot.
The snow pack is surprisingly low, less than a foot on average.
"What we need is a lot of snow pack, a cold winter," the mayor said.