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The ski season ended on Monday, May 28, in much the way it started: sparse snow, not very many people and a load of fun for the few who were there.
"Broadway looks pretty much the same as it did on Opening Day," said one ski area executive.
Neverthless, the snow was n excellent condition when three lifts opened at 7:30 a.m. By mid-morning the lower slopes were mush, but that didn't bother the tank-top-wearing snowboarders or veteran Mammoth skiers like Keith Dawley, respendent in tie-dye.
The 200-day season was the shortest in 16 years, since the 189-day season in 1990-91 that was saved by the so-called "Miracle March" that produced 197 inches of snow in that month alone.
Just 231 inches (19.25 feet) of snow fell during the 2006-07 season. Snowmaking made up for a dry November. The biggest snowfall in November was just three inches on Nov. 26, and December (58 inches) wasn't much better. In fact, it wasn't until Dec. 21 that snow began falling in any volume, and even that produced just 26 inches of new snow for the holidays.
In January, just 11 inches fell; in February, 100 inches of snow fell, but that was negated by a dismal March, traditionally a heavy snow month, which produced just 19 inches of snow this season.
The shortest season on record was the 1976-77 season -- 30 years ago. In that season, just 159 inches of snow fell.
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