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Up north, ski areas have plenty of snow

Bare backyards hurt ski resorts

By Tony Chamberlain

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 01, 2012

During a low-snow winter some 25 years ago, Les Otten filled a few dump trucks with snow from his ski area, Maine’s Sunday River, alerted the media he was coming, then dumped the snow on Boston Common.

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