05/07/08

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) _ The only Utah resort still open for skiing
has so much snow it might be able to keep running until summer.

With 11 feet of snow on the ground, Snowbird said Wednesday it
will stay open for skiing into June and possibly longer.

Snowbird has even fired up one of the chair lifts it had closed
for the season, while shutting down its signature 125-passenger
tram for maintenance.

The Little Cloud chair takes skiers almost to the top of the
mountain from the bottom of a northwest-facing bowl.

Skiing was to have ended Memorial Day, but Snowbird President
Bob Bonar says he'll keep the resort open as long conditions allow.

Snowbird lifts have run as late as July 4. Bonar says it is too
early to know if that's possible this year.

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