Ski industry

An empty chair moves along a lift at a resort in Nederland, Colo., in January 2012. Skier visits nationwide fell 16 percent in 2011-2012,  a 20-year low, and after the driest winter in two decades decimated resorts from Maine to California last season, the drought in Colorado continues. (Bloomberg News photo by Matthew Staver).

Colo. ski areas devastated by drought

DENVER — Jagged peaks ringing Colorado’s Copper Mountain turned indigo in the rising sun as Jamie Baker knelt to measure the ski resort’s latest snowfall. The total came to what it’s been too often this season: zero.

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