Progress may be telling the handful of hardy Alaskans who try to ski every month of the year that it's time to move to move south.
Serious year-round skiing is on the way to the second-biggest state in the nation -- sans any requirement for grunting your way far back into the mountains beneath a a heavy backpack in search of the last of the snow.
Texas is talking drive-to, lift-served skiing year-round on the outskirts of Dallas.
CBS News reports developers there are getting ready to break ground on a $215 million indoor ski area that Outsideonline.com claims will offer the longest indoor ski run in the world.
The Grand Alps Resort plans for a 1,200-foot slope with nearly 300 feet of vertical. Anchorage's Hilltop Ski Area has just under 300 feet of vertical and a longest run of 2,090 feet.
But it is often bitterly cold or raining at Hilltop, and the nearest bar is some distance away.
Grand Alps, according to Outside, will boast a steady, 28-degree, thermostatically controlled climate and "a four-star, 300-room Hard Rock Hotel with two restaurants and a theater'' at the base.
There is also a spa, a fitness center and rooftop pool. Not to mention an indoor ice-climbing wall and a luge run for those who prefer winter sports other than skiing.
Plus an Olympic half-pipe and terrain park for snowboarders and the growing number of skiers who like to work on their aerial tricks.
This is not the first indoor ski project for the Grand Alps Group, either. It built "Ski Dubai'' in that Mideast nation. Ski Dubai, according to Liftopia, features the only indoor "black diamond'' run in the world.
And to think that all Alaska has for summer skiing are some glaciers built by Mother Nature.