Bloomberg Ski Business article - 3/1/2019

Great article, thanks for the link. They clarified the payment system, which always mystified me both here and in the Alps: "Under the partnership agreements, a resort would be paid for each day a skier swiped her Ikon Pass: either a negotiated fee or a blended rate based on how many Ikon days were tallied over the course of a winter."

I'm curious to learn if Deer Valley/Sun Valley et al. decide that the tradeoff -- allowing limited numbers of hoi polloi on their slopes in exchange for possibly repelling their core market of high-net-worth people -- is worth it. I suppose Aspen's distance from Front Range hordes (sorry EMSC) makes it less of an issue for them than Deer Valley.

Wish I could take advantage of one pass or the other.
 
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