Utah's ski industry sees continued growth.

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Park City - The Utah ski and snowboard industry closed the 2013-14 winter season with a total of 4,161,585 million skier day visits, up 3.6 percent from the previous season.

The 3.6 percent increase marks a great success for the industry, ending above four million for the seventh time in the last nine years and finishing as the third-best season on record. Utah's resorts have seen two years of consecutive skier day increases, up 8.8 percent since the 2011-12 season.

Although the season snowfall was slightly below average for the state, the 432 inches of snowfall, in conjunction with resort snowmaking, provided excellent conditions throughout the season.

"If we had had just one more strong early storm system I have no doubt that Utah would be reporting record visitation numbers...