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Vail ski resorts keep making money even with pitiful snowfall in Utah and across the West

The Denver-based owner of Park City Mountain reported Thursday that its revenue for the quarter ending Jan. 31 rose 58 percent to $235.7 million, compared to $149.2 million for the same period a year earlier.

Revenue from season-pass sales, the addition of Vermont’s venerable Stowe Mountain Resort to its financial ledger and federal corporate tax cuts boosted Vail’s bottom line, even though “historically low snowfall” across the West resulted in a 3.1 percent decline in visitation heading into February.

“Through Jan. 31,” Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz said in a quarterly filing, “conditions across the western U.