Despite the ongoing drama between Park City Mountain Resort and Vail Resorts, the Utah ski industry still recorded the third-best ski season in history for 2013-2014. Final skier and snowboarder counts totaled 4,161,585, just shy of the record-breaking 2007-2008 ski season when skiers racked up 4,249,190 days. This is good news for Utah as the state is constantly trying to compete with Colorado, a state who also had a record-breaking year. At the same time, Utah still has a ways to go if it wants to catch up to the Centennial state; Colorado's 2013-2014 skier counts were up 10% from the previous season to a whopping 12.6 million.
Here's a look at Utah skier days over the past 10 years, courtesy of Deseret News:
Utah skier days
2013-14: 4,161,585 (3)
2012-13: 4,018,812 (7)
2011-12: 3,825,090 (10)
2010-11: 4,247,510 (2)
2009-10: 4,070,822 (5)
2008-09: 3,972,984 (8)
2007-08: 4,249,190 (1)
2006-07: 4,082,094 (4)
2005-06: 4,062,188 (6)
2004-05: 3,895,578 (9)
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