In some parts of the country, this week is known as Winter Vacation Week. I'm still investigating how this week came to be. Was it:
1) Schools in cold areas close to save on heating costs
2) Schools in cold areas close because parents demanded Florida or Skiing vacations
3) The skiing lobby demanded such a holiday
4) Its an extension of Washington's Birthday.
Whatever the case, the holiday weekend has been cited as having the busiest skiing day. In a February 13, 1997 statement in the New York Times, Colorado Ski Country U.S.A., a ski resort trade group cited the Washington's Birthday weekend as "our busiest weekend". Their spokeswoman noted that Colorado gets 40 percent of its ski business between Washington's Birthday weekend and the end of March.
Sunday morning (February 20 in 2006), falling in the middle of the weekend, should produce the busiest day for skiing, unless the weather intervenes. I'll go into more detail later on the nature of 3-day weekend holidays (which build as people arrive and decline as people leave), but suffice it to say that the stereotypical leisure trip with its "Saturday Night Stay" tends to produce a Sunday Morning Rush.
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