Recent content by EMSC

I don't "get it" either and I live here. Hopefully the terrible season just finished pushed a lot of profitability numbers into bad territory for a lot of lodging places in the mountains to make them reconsider. Used to be you could find a few pretty cheap places mixed in in spots or at the...

Sort of and sort of not. Aldi Nord owns Trader Joe's. Aldi, the original German company was founded by two brothers who eventually had a huge falling out and they agreed to split the German Aldi footprint into Aldi North and Aldi South within Germany. Oddly the big fallout causing the split was...

Funny thing is that despite playing a bit of soccer growing up I have little interest in the World Cup. I'll agree with James' recommendations as a good start to liven things up a bit. I only saw portions of the Scotland vs Morocco game as I was working out late afternoon. Most of that game the...

Interesting analysis for Colorado. Prior to looking at that, my memory had been that southern edge of Colo favored by El Nino and northern edge of Colo favored by La Nina. With no real pattern for the rest of the state. However looking at the data the % of increas/favored is much less than I...

Wasn't horrid, but also very non-obvious and required developer mode. I copied the data into an .xlsx (hopefully useable for you?) I'll try to DM it to you... The forum software doesn't want to allow it...

The other big player for early race lanes is Loveland. In fact they spend so much of their early snowmaking firepower that it has hampered their now long lost attempts at being first for the public. Often the race lane opens down at the Valley before the public run up at the Basin side opens...

I've actually never understood why more Canadian places don't try to compete for the racer market early season. The snow answer is YES. Much preferred. It may not seem it too much, but at the level of racing for the World Cup skiers even small changes in snow surface can make or break the...

I've never had a fruit/veggie based beer that I thought tasted like anything but garbage. Not pumpkin, not blood orange, etc... No idea if it's just my taste buds or if I've been that unlucky with the several I've tried, but I never choose any of them ever at this point. Blech. (Not that I...

A surprising amount of factors that go into the decision on where and when for summer skiing/camps. Younger athletes tend to do better in salted/mid-summer type of conditions (eg late elementary, middle school and early high school ages). Thus lots of June/early July camps on the last of the...

Ahhh... the drama that is Telluride. Chuck's own son suggested to and drafted the original purchase plan for the Mtn town officials that went to try to buy the place during the patrol strike in Dec... I'd say that sticks a giant fork into Chuck's plan to try to sue the town and the officials...

Vail in total (not just Colorado) says skier days dropped 12.5%. Forward looking impact is that pass sales are down 10% for next year compared to this time last year. Could be a good thing I suppose. Slightly less crowding at the big resorts? Short Denver Post article

I wonder if it could be done with some AI scripts to find all the interesting stuff in minutes and then spend only one day per week curating it for 3-5 hours... You could even set different publishing dates ahead of time so that it looked like new articles every day for the next week. It has...

An interesting thought, but I think it still primarily comes back to skier days. Why? Crowding, one of today favorite topics in skiing is directly related All but lift ticket revenue is very directly correlated (meals, lessons, lodging, etc...) Even lift revenue is somewhat correlated, just...

I don't recall complaining about Newarks hemmed in aspects (though I bet those United pilots that hit the truck landing from Italy a few weeks ago probably are). I do note that Pena was fine as a 4 lane when it handled the as-built DIA expectation of 40-50M passengers. Unfortunately its now well...

All of the major rental car players have been consolidated into a multistory parking garage across from Terminal A. No idea for how long, the garage is clearly pretty new. Leaving, you have to exit it then go around all 4 sides of the garage with 2 traffic lights and several merges just to get...