New England resorts find good snow recession-proof
Editor | Feb 21, 2009 | Comments 0
NEWRY, Maine — The economy may be melting down, but the snow keeps piling up at New England’s big ski mountains, enabling them to dodge the avalanche of bad news about job losses and business failures. For the region’s ski operators, plentiful snow appears to be trumping hard times. Sugarloaf and Sunday River, Maine’s two largest ski resorts, enjoyed record snowfall and skier visits last winter and could equal those numbers this year, said spokeswoman Darcy Liberty. “In stressful economic times,…
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