The Colorado mountains have been getting plenty of snow lately, but that wasn’t the case earlier in the ski season — and that’s reflected in the late-2016 skier-visit numbers. Colorado Ski Country USA’s 22 member mountain resorts saw an 8 percent decline in skier visits for the season through Dec. 31 from the same period a year ago, the trade association said today. A shortage of snow early this season — reportedly the lightest snowpack in more than three decades — pushed down Colorado…