BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 20, 2024
The Camden Snow Bowl has faced a number of issues in recent years, including deteriorating buildings, aging equipment that’s needed to be replaced and Underlying all of those challenges, though, is a more existential one for the town-owned Snow Bowl on Ragged Mountain. Winters are getting warmer in Maine, and during recent seasons that has left the little ski area with a shortage of its most essential component. That was painfully evident this winter, when warm, wet weather rapidly melted its snow and forced it to close for the season in early March, almost a month before it normally would.