Colorado results are in! It's a record year for snow

Eight Colorado ski resorts saw snow reports worthy of the record books according to Colorado Ski Country USA. The state of Colorado saw more than 100 powder days based on a tally of the number of days one resort or another picked up new snow. After many resorts delayed opening their doors because of poor early snow conditions the season really did kick off with a bang in December.

Among the 26 ski resort members, record snowfall was recorded at Beaver Creek (430 inches), Crested Butte (422 inches), Monarch Mountain (482 inches), Powderhorn (320 inches), Silverton (550 inches), Snowmass (450 inches), Steamboat (489 inches) and Telluride (353 inches).

Vail saw its third snowiest winter on record, Durango Mountain Resort recorded its fifth snowiest winter and snowfall totals at both Sunlight Mountain Resort near Glenwood Springs and Copper Mountain landed in the top 10 in the resorts’ histories, according to Ski Country.Keystone ski resort tied its best snowfall in the previous eight years, and Eldora received its best snow year in the previous five years. December and January were record snow months at Snowmass and Vail, and Telluride received record snowfall from December to February. January and February snowfall were amongst the highest in Loveland’s history, and 2007-’08 marked the first time Steamboat surpassed the 100-inch cumulative mark for three months in one ski season — from December through to February.

New service from LA to Mammoth Lakes

The FAA have approved for the coming winter a daily daytime service between Los Angeles LAX Airport and Mammoth Yosemite Airport.

This is great news for skiers and boarders and with plans to use a 76 seater Bombardier turbo prop international travellers will no longer be faced with a car journey of 4 journey from Reno or a 6 hour drive from Los Angeles and San Francisco.

This is great news for UK skiers who want to visit Mammoth Mountain, one of the best ski resorts in North America and plans are afoot to increase this in 2011 to 8 flights a day as regional flights from Las Vegas, Northern California and San Diego are added.

1 stop flights to to Aspen from Gatwick with Delta

Delta Airlines have announced that they will start daily non-stop flights from Atlanta to Aspen/Snowmass starting on December 20, 2008 and retain the service throughout the winter 08/09 season!

This is great news for skiers and boarders and means that those looking to take a ski holiday in Aspen or Snowmass can make the trip with Delta Airlines with only a single stop over in Atlanta.

In the past two years the team at Worldski have seen several new air routes coming into Aspen Airport making Aspen/Snowmass the easiest and arguably the best Ski Resort for total travel time for any UK skier. I mean who can beat a 15 minute transfer time to your hotel!!!!

So we when it comes to booking your holiday to Aspen and Snowmass this coming winter remember that you have the choice of the following flights:

United Airlines: Daily Direct from LHR - DEN with easy 28 minute flight time service to Aspen/Snowmass

United Airlines: Daily Direct Flight(s) into Chicago (ORD) from LHR with connecting service to Aspen/Snowmass

Delta Airlines: Daily Direct Flights(s) into Atlanta (ATL) from LGW with connecting service to Aspen/Snowmass.

...and don't forget about the daily non-stop flights on British Airways from LHR to DEN. Although there is no code share flights up to Aspen/Snowmass with a ticket from BA, there are multiple flights on United Airlines and now Frontier Airlines from Denver to Aspen/Snowmass!

Considering 3 years ago there was no way to come to Aspen/Snowmass from the UK on a protected 1-stop flight things have come a long way.

With these kind of options we look forward to see many of you on the slopes this coming winter.