hen fellow skiers sent Amadeo Reale photos of churned mud and grassy slopes at their French and Swiss ski resorts in January, he shuddered in sympathy, but felt no sense of foreboding. As the president of Cortina d’Ampezzo’s historic Sci Club 18, he is confident that Italy’s premier ski resort in the Dolomites is pretty much immune to the no-snow-pocalypse that emptied out Europe’s prime ski destinations over the winter holidays. After all, most European resorts are 900 to 1,000 m (2,952 to 3,280 ft.) above sea level. Cortina d’Ampezzo starts at 1,600 m (5,249 ft.) and ascends to 2,362 m (7,749 ft.). Even if the lower slopes get a little slushy from above-average temperatures, as they did in mid-January, well, there is always
