Search results

That's interesting. IIRC from the trip 10 years ago (has it been that long??!!) with Admin, they had extensive snowmaking coverage on the old half of the mountain, and none on the new half (something about water rights in that new basin). So if they're claiming to be 100% open, then that's...

This is 100% correct. The competition from far superior hills proximate to Haytstack is unlike anything in Ontario. I've skied Haystack and the product quality simply can't justify the price tag they are asking, IMO. Some decent cruising, but the vertical isn't that consistent and it skies a...

I had no idea Alta had snowmaking. Learn something new every day I guess. Just for the main route down from Collins mid?

Pretty sure they are selling a limited number of subscriptions, so you wouldn't necessarily have that option by the time January rolls around. Otherwise, that would clearly be the play.

Time to bump this thread. Got an e-mail from Baldy yesterday. They are now offering unlimited skiing and off-season lift rides on a subscription basis - $19.95/month with no restrictions. You can cancel at any time, though you must pay the first and last month in advance. Not sure if...

Agreed on all points. Daybreak is yet another example od ASC short-sightedness/stupidity. A slow lift serving flat terrain that serves only to provide access/increase the value of McMansions at high elevation. Brilliant! It's even more insane given that: 1) It sits in one of the snowier...

This is mostly true. But this will largely be the case for any lifts from the PC side to Solitude, given topography and lift layouts. IMO, that doesn't substantially alter the calculus vs. other options (tunnels/road between the two canyons). Given the unceasing pressure to achieve some sort...

But look at the words you've chosen. "...anyone who strongly prefers the Cottonwoods to Park City". Duh. Those people aren't going to ski the PC resorts in any event - by definition, PC was never a consideration. But there is a very large segment of people who don't have a strong...

It also makes Park City a more attractive lodging base. If you can avoid the expense, uncertainty and hassle of the shuttle to LCC/BCC, that would be a major selling point, I would think. Also might have environmental benefits if you can concentrate more people on the flats of PC instead of...

I think Killington under the new ownership is an object lesson in what not to do across the entire operational spectrum. that said, it's only one data point, and I wouldn't draw conclusions based solely on PWDR/E2M's incompetence.

As for the terminations holding up, I guess that depends. Recall the timeline here - some of the employees were fired before anymore mouthed off to the press, so any such judgement wouldn't apply to them. It was only after the walk-out that this got press attention and additional people were...

+1 And a pretty disingenuous attempt at that. I particularly love how SSV decried the reliance upon emotion over fact in this case and then promptly offered up the tragic story of a crying 12 year old whose YouTube videos of SSV got panned. No attempt to address the central question of...

I guess this is where I think your analysis sort of falls down. Just putting it out there doesn't tell me anything. If I go into this with the base assumptions that corporations = bad and ski bums/private operators = good, well then I guess this is good enough - confirmatory bias. However...

I don't know how it plays in out in specific situations, but since CNL is a REIT, I suspect they are happy to simply have the long-term lease income and that there may be (pure speculation) tax/structural benefits that make it attractive. I guess the key is buying in at the right price so your...

Jamie - I guess what I'm missing here is the "so what". All you've done at this point is gather data. What should people think of this? How does this level of resort concentration compare to the level of concentration in other industries? Does it matter that CNL owns so many resorts when...

No - they don't disagree with the East numbers. You are COMPLETELY misrepresenting and/or misunderstanding what they are pushing back on. They have provided a qualitative narrative that, overall, it wasn't a great year in the East, particularly for the March-April period. Neither of them have...

1) Tony's numbers are representative for Western Canada which, let's face it, is where the majority of visits and acreage is. 2) Wait - Ontario and Quebec are fives times bigger in terms of area? It's surely not in skier visits or available acreage, which quitw frankly are the only stats that...

So, in other words, b/c the snow in your particular backyard wasn't as deep as you had hoped, then the claim that it's the best snowfall year across North America as a whole is invalid? Uh, ok. That makes sense. Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds?

No matter what reasonable numbers you may choose to allocate from a skier visits perspective, the fact remains that even the worst areas had avg snowfall for the year. As an Eastern skier, surely even you should be able to comprehend how unusual that is. Pick your local hill. Find their...

My God - could you people be more pedantic about this? just b/c it wasn't a fantastic season in your backyard, and the backyard of an additional small % of skiers, that invalidates his title? Bullshit. 1000% bullshit. For the ski areas providing the vast majority of skier visits, his data...