Recent content by EMSC

Understatement. I get the sense (reading between lines) that the first couple months is simply doc's seeing if I truly fully stabilize or if I show signs either direction of slight better or even possibility of worse. Thanks. At one point I was even told that even being at the hospital...

I'd describe Colorado snowfall season to date as Pitiful. Crazy long stretches of warm air as well so far, so tons of even snowmaking trails are not open yet. Pretty easily the worst I've ever seen it in my 27 years here. I mean Abasin has like 9 'trails' open with no new terrain coming anytime...

This has to be a near perfect year to visit the tiny places in NY. Enough snow to be fully open (or close), and ski them at their absolute best with likely no one around.

I should update everyone on this. Given the slightly goofy way that seats opened up to me last spring I had originally set to go with a couple of my guys trip buddies, one at a time. One Jan trip, One Feb trip. With my departure from both trips the Jan trip taker decided to move his slot to...

I haven't looked for updates today, but I know Telluride gave a slightly upgraded offer to patrol (and then immediately issued a press release on it, which seems like a dumb idea). Deadline they gave to patrol was sometime late today.

The fun part of those lift lines is that probably 90% are locals coming out of the woodwork for a pow day, but they all fervently believe the lines are exclusivly from Ikon destination skiers. As they say "We have met the enemy and it is us".

Here is the latest update from today. Just remember the town is already months behind plan for closing the deal. Hints of future competence level for thier ownership. https://archive.is/zreer

Hah, this is extreme liberal politician country in Boulder County. They view all businesses as something that should be heavily taxed and sucked dry. Powdr Corp doesn't much care about Neds plan; they just want max price to walk away with. You did nail it though. Once they had the idea and...

I give it this season and next before it starts to fall apart. Nothing the town can change for this season and next they try to replicate a normal season as they have no idea what they are doing yet. After that they will want to start pulling $$ out of the resort to fund the town and I think top...

Interestingly, having never met the man I'm quite certain I know exactly how Chuck thinks and operates. Eldoras owner prior to Powdr ownership was nearly identical. Tons of terribly stupid decisions, constant creating strife with the town and mtn user groups, refusal to partner with anyone...

Understatement. Outside of Wolf Creek, which is at least open (though thin), Colo has been a place to avoid.

Mammoth sure is developing a bad rep for unsafe avi control procedures. They should have a much better system in place by now. Injuries and deaths to Patrol almost every year recently. Not good.

If I recall it's about 80 patrollers. The absolute $ that Chuck is having a tantrum over is tiny. Probably a rounding error for the resort. He'll lose far, far more by closing for a prime week than the entire 3 year contract would cost to just pay it. But it has nothing to do with logic for...

Probably not unprecedented, but extremely rare for Summit county colo. Places like Aspen, Vail, Steamboat it is rare for rain during winter but does happen at those lower bases and lower parts of those mtns every 5-ish years or so. Have set new high temp records in Denver past couple of days...

Now if only they'd let you ski the whales! I could have a lot of fun with that.