interesting piece on global warming's effect on certain ski areas

http://www.theactivetimes.com/endangered-ski-areas

I don't want to get into the global warming debate but to me this writer made some suspect conclusions on targets to be affected.  Killington has high elevation and snowmaking might so they should be fine.  Sugarloaf has elevation, and is so far north - in fact last year in a bad snow year they did super well.  They also tend to catch the tail end of Noreaster's that miss the rest of New England.

It would seem that the Catskills and PA would be much more at risk.

Coach Z wrote

I don't want to get into the global warming debate but to me this writer made some suspect conclusions

Yeah, such as definitively asserting that man-made Global Warming is occurring.

Bonus points for stating that Killington and Stowe will both be out of business within 25 years though, that was a nice touch for a late-night laugh.

If the trend is for milder temps on average ski areas will need to make more snow, man made snow is much denser than natural so it takes longer to melt and can ride through the warmer temps longer. I use to live and ski in Virginia, the resort was about the size of West mountain, given them a week below freezing and they had the snow making to be open 100%. A few more weeks and they had a 4' base that would last through mid March. But for the last three weeks of the season conditions ranged from mash potatoes to kitty litter. They used a product called snowmax to increase the range of temps they make snow at as well as increase the efficiency of the process.