Adirondack ski areas by the numbers: 2013-14 season

Buoyed by an early start and five consecutive months of colder than average temperatures, attendance at the state-owned Adirondack ski areas increased by more than 7% over last year. Handily beating the national (down 1.3%) and regional (up 0.6%) trends cited in the National Ski Areas Association's preliminary report of the 2013-14 ski season, those results should bring smiles to the faces of skiers, business owners in North Creek and Lake Placid, and ORDA board members alike.

Here are the numbers:

2013-14 ski season results

	2013-14	2012-13
Whiteface operating days	149	145
Gore operating days	141	140
Whiteface skier visits	218 thousand	192 thousand
Gore skier visits	203 thousand	197 thousand
Whiteface revenue	not yet available	$10.45 million
Gore revenue	not yet available	$8.96 million
Whiteface snowfall	160	182
Gore snowfall	147.5	168
Temperatures	6890 degree days	6089 degree days

2013-14 season results fine print:

• Operating days, skier visits, revenue and snowfall are per ORDA and are preliminary pending release of ORDA's Annual Report and audited financial statements. When released, those reports will be available here.
• Gore's long-term annual snowfall is 150 inches. Whiteface's is 200 inches.
• Temperatures are heating degree-days as measured by NYSERDA for the Glens Falls region for the Nov-April period. Degree-days represent the number of degrees by which the average daily temperature falls below 65 degrees. More degree-days equals colder temperatures. The long-term average number of heating degree-days for the Nov-April period is 6356.
• Revenue data for Gore and Whiteface is not yet available for 2013-14.