OK, maybe it hasn't been the best winter for skiing, meteorologically-speaking.

If you've been out there, you know it hasn't been that bad.

But still, numbers are down to date.

Ski area marketing gurus will tell you that it takes snow in the dooryard to get a lot of people out to the slopes. And that hasn't happened much this winter.

Yet.

You've gotta remember that March is the snowiest month of the year in Maine's mountains. April is second.

So don't give up hope. The best is yet to come.

And besides, a little March and April sun on the slopes will be nice.

In the meantime, get on out there. Because the skiing really is pretty good, all things considered.

By the way, I feel bad for the poor folks out west in Flagstaff and the Arizona Snow Bowl, a fantastic place to ski that I last visited a few years back. From the top lift at about 11,000 feet you can see right down into the Grand Canyon. Now that rocks, eh?!

Anyway, northern Arizona has only seen 20 inches of snow this season and the Snow Bowl has yet to open. That's after a record 460 inches last year.

At least here in Maine we're skiing...