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Powder Downer

Mar/Apr 2013
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Powder Downer
Mar/Apr 2013

By the end of the 2030s the Dartmouth Skiway could close for good. That’s the forecast of a climate change model devel- oped by Dr. Daniel Scott of Ontario’s Univer- sity of Waterloo. He predicts the Skiway's demise because “even with advanced snowmaking…it could not sustain more than a 100-day ski season on average and be open for the critical Christmas-New Year holiday period at least 75 percent of the time.”