The snow-less winters makes them more vulnerable to predators. The lower elevations of their range where there is less snowfall are the areas where the numbers really dropped.

Ed Zygmunt

It reminds us what we're doing, we're all just playing a game in the snow. It doesn't matter how you slide down it.

Eben Wight

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

Earl Wilson

You can't take one event and substitute it for an entire winter's worth of snow, which we didn't get.

Ed Polasko