201875 Resource 75310 173930 173930 1208382568705 1208385031563 Controlled Vail and Beaver Creek Closed For The 2008 Season Record Snowfall Highlights The Year <p>Vail and Beaver Creek Ski Resorts are officailly closed for the 2007-2008 ski season.&nbsp; <strong>Beaver Creek set a new record with <font color="#cc0033">430 inches</font> of snow</strong>; <strong>Vail reported</strong> <font color="#cc0033"><strong>463&quot;</strong> </font>of snow.&nbsp; It was truly one of the best snow years ever!</p><p>The final day was one that will be long remebered by those present.&nbsp; Bright sunshine, blue skies, and fantastic snow conditions greeted <strong>thousands</strong> of skiers on April 13, 2008.&nbsp; While Beaver Creek was surprisingly mellow, Vail was packed with many costumed revellers celebrating &quot;4 at 4&quot;, the top of the mountain party named for Chair 4 at 4 o'clock.</p><p>This season had few &quot;spring skiing days&quot;; those warm, sunny, corn snow days that many of us dream about.&nbsp; <em><strong>&quot;Better late than never!&quot;</strong></em>&nbsp;was the attitude from those skiers and snowboarders on the mountain, and everyone seemed content to have the sun on their faces.&nbsp; </p><p>Enjoy the golf and see you next year!</p> 9 application/xml false 4 at 4 author:schwartz category:Beaver Creek category:vail final day record snowfall vail mountain closed Vail Daily Photos Photographs From Vail's Last Day 4/13/08 http://vaildaily.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=495052 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 Doug Schwartz 204.10.25.186 false true false false true 174174 false false true false false false true 75310 blog blogsite/VailValleyRealEstate/web