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Hard to blame soulskier for being interested. This is a pretty fascinating story and one that, from all outward indications, likely epitomizes the essence of what the MRA thinks is wrong with the industry. Out of touch owner with an aggro, entitled son against 20-25 year pros who seemed to...

Note to Admin - towards the end of the story, you wrote that "all but Chevalier were questioned about ....". Remember there were two Chevaliers - the older was the mtn risk mgr while his nephew was the lift ops mgr. From what I've read elsewhere, it was the younger one who wasn't questioned...

You raise some valid points, but let's break those down a bit. Of those 145 days, there are already 60 days (a month on each end) where East isn't operating and business is pretty sparse anyway. What we really need to be focusing on here is what they do in the high-season where the bast...

That narrative doesn't hold together for me. This is a very small resort that is generating well over 500K skier visits - it's really difficult to imagine they aren't making money on a operating basis. They have grown skier visits dramatically in recent years and it doesn't seem logical...

Yet they've closed East frequently in recent years despite the fact that they have notched year after year of record attendance figures. The notion that this is some sort of anomoly b/c the numbers are way off has no basis in fact. They are doing it despite record numbers in an attempt to put...

But for the vast majority of those 50 years, neither MH nor the Big Bear resorts had the snowmaking firepower they do now. Unfortunately, that seems to be where the market has shifted towards.

Why Tony, I can't imagine why you'd post that article in this thread. :-" :-"

No man, you just don't "get it". I have nothing to learn from a bunch of desk jockeys who don't open it up to Mach 3 on 40 deg pitches for 2000' at a time. It's clear you are just another toadie for the corporate ski industry who can't see how transformative our valued-based ski-energy center...

How many of those 70 people are working on the MRA full-time? How many have practical experience with any of the issues you are facing? To what exent are their efforts being directed or managed on a consistent basis so that you can ensure that the agenda is being pushed forward correctly and...

You're going to have a dedicated beginner lift and trail pod for kids at your freeride area? With daycare too? Awesome!

I'm going to try this one last time, b/c apparently the message isn't sinking in. Let me try using a personal anecdote from my previous career. I used to work for a massive beverage and snacks company. They had a long and well-earned reputation for hitting their revenue/volume targets quarter...

After reading up a bit more on this topic, it's hard not to come away with a negative view on Sunshine. The timeline that has been resported/rumored seems to go like this: 1) Owner's kid Taylor Scurfield get caught going into an avi closure and is made to hike back up and out. 2) Shortly...

Hard to have an informed opinion with so little information to go on (as if that's ever stopped me before!). We have no idea of the nature of the original confrontation. Where was this group? What was said? Was there a member of the owner's family there? Were the original 5 fired due solely...

I think it's a little more subtle than that. To a limited extent, soulskier CAN have his cake and eat it too. There are plenty of small initiatives/steps/actions he can take as part of the start-up process that would firmly set an MRA area on the path to being more environmentally sustainable...

I would submit that it was the "great tasting ice cream" part that was the primary driver, with the "green business" part being secondary. If Ben & Jerry's tasted like a stale Hoodsie cup, you would have never heard of them, irrespective of how green they were. My $0.02. I think it's a...

Wait Marc - it actually gets better. The Jiminy Peak turbine was installed in the summer of 2007, i.e. just prior to the 2007-2008 ski season. According to the NSAA, skier visits in the Northeast increased from 11.8MM in the 2006-2007 season to 14.2MM in the 2007-2008 - a jump of nearly 21%...

In fairness to soulskier, IIRC, part of the problem at Silverton was that it was primarily on BLM land as opposed to NFS land. While the NFS has extensive experience (people, procedures, systems, precedent) dealing with ski area permitting, the BLM has zero. As such, it took a lot longer than...

Speaking of which, due to a change in my employment picture, I can actually spend money on discretionary activities like skiing before I'm back into the work fray in January. As such, I'm heading up for a last-minute jaunt this weekend with my brother and his family. Do you know of any...

I've seen absolutely nothing in his writings indicating he has such capabilities. Just a lot of airy-fairy sounding jargon that, while seductive from 10,000 feet, is painfully short on details and almost certain to not get funded. Oh BTW, weren't we promised that the MRA would reveal the...

I can't speak to the gondola issue, though it's been observed in many places that they chose to keep operating that lift for off-season ops until the end of the summer. Maybe they are just a different kind of incompetent and poor at project planning instead of regulatory planning. On this we...