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Ski Quotes Of The Week

By J.D. O'Connor
January 22, 2007

"We take it to the extreme. Our operational decisions are made with our guests in mind, which would probably make most bean-counters roll-over in their cubicles."

Scott Crislip, Business Manager of Snow Trails Winter Resort in Mansfield, Ohio, on the area's approach to ensuring appropriate cover during the recent snow drought.

"You know that TV show, 'Home Makeover?' We're living the ski center adaptation of 'Home Makeover.'"

A weary but excited Jeff Mahran, General Manager of the newly minted Tuxedo Ridge - nee Stirling Forest - ski area just north of Sloatsburg, N.Y., after a month spent refurbishing the shuttered resort area.

"We're like the New England Patriots. We're a second-half team and we're only halfway through the second quarter right now."

Parker Riehle, president of the Vermont Ski Areas Association, when asked it it wasn't too late for Vermont resorts to match last year's 4.1 million skier visits in light of the slow start in the East.

"The losers will be the small resorts, which are often at low altitude. The winners will be the vast ski conglomerates (based) on the American model."

Shardul Agrawala, author of Climate Change in the European Alps, predicting the impact of global warming on European ski areas.

"Idaho is mostly Mormon so it's mostly a dry state... and we have the alcoholics to prove it."

Local sheriff's deputy to a hard-partying skier at the Honda Ski Tour in Sun Valley.

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