Off Topic... Ski Resorts Busted........

You are wrong. I have worked on the patrol at Breckenridge for 25 years, and you are wrong. The patrol meassures in person the snow amount on the stake on Peak 8 at around 4:45 in the morning, and transfers the information into a computer database used by the ski area and Colorado Ski Country for reporting purposes. The patrollers/weather persons who do this work conduct it in an honest manner and round down instead of up - always (1/4 -1/2 inches - below 1 inch + trace, below 1/4 inch no report). I know this for a fact. It is very unusual for the marketing department to contact us in regard to this information, and I have never seen a patroller's observation altered. Your problem is you don't know what you are talking about. Wind affects snowfall distribution, and no where is this a bigger issue than Breckenridge. So it is normal to detect inconsistency in the report. We may report 2 inches, but in the North Bowls you could be skiing over a foot. In fact the current location of the Breckenridge snow stake on Peak 8 could have been, and should have been put into a more advantageous location than where it is currently located. It remains for consistency (records) and because many have felt moving it would be misleading. It has been there all 25 years I've worked there. Trust me, there has been plenty of talk and reason to move the stake. It remains. (there is another stake used at the base of Solitude in the Backbowls - and this stake is always referred to as the upper stake. Both are read at 4:45) To really understand snowfall amounts you have to look at the wind; direction and speed. You and Dartmouth have no idea what you are talking about, and to accuse these people who I work with of dishonesty is a real dishonour to their efforts. If you choose your day of skiing based on snowfall reports, perhaps a better question you should be asking is what did the winds do?