SUPER SPLASH

Whitefish Mountain Resort capped off a historic season Sunday with 6 inches of fresh powder on closing day.

The 2016-17 season saw a new record for total visits with more than 346,000 skiers. This breaks the 2013-14 season record of 345,000 visits. The mountain also saw a record season for passholder visits at 157,000.

The record visitation was spurred by 407 inches of total snowfall for the season, the second most in the last 20 years. The summit saw a settled base of 131 inches of snow.

Snow continued to fall early in the week as well, with temperature highs in the low 30s on Monday and two inches of fresh powder.

The mountain saw snow on 69 of 124 days it was open. It marked 29 days of 6 or more inches of new snow. The resort recorded 46 inches of snow in November, 98 in December and 37 in January. February and March both topped 100 inches, with 115 and 102 inches, and 9 inches of snow fell in April.

This year’s total is nearly 100 inches more than last year’s 311 inches and almost 200 more than the previous year’s 221 inches.

The 407 inches this year is second to the 2007-08 season’s 426 inches, but barely edged out the 406 inches in 1996-97.

Jay Foster tallied more vertical feet than any other pass holder at the resort this winter with 4.2 million. Fred Frost came in second with 4.1 million vertical feet, followed by Susan Armstrong at 3.6 million.

Season passes for the 2017-18 season are available until Sept. 30, after which prices will increase.

Whitefish Mountain Resort opens for the summer season in June.

For more information, visit skiwhitefish.com or call 406-862-2900.

Top-10 vertical 2016-17 season

1. Jay Foster 4,275,887

2. Fred Frost 4,114,127

3. Susan Armstrong 3,638,796

4. Albin Kwolek 3,546,198

5. Cindy Klein 3,144,262

6. Frank Creasia 3,122,908

7. Paul Descoteau 2,886,679

8. Mark Sanman 2,398,114

9. Jim Peterson 2,306,126

10. Jeanne Reichstadt 2,172,519