- Ikon Pass adds Ischgl, Austria; loses Windham Mountain Club, New York and makes Arapahoe Basin unlimited with no blackouts. Full Ikon also adds two bonus days at Buck Hill, Minnesota; Cranmore, New Hampshire; Jiminy Peak, Massachusetts and Wild Mountain, Minnesota.
- Arapahoe Basin leaves the Mountain Collective Pass.
- Vail makes minimal changes to Epic Pass for next year.
- Indy Pass adds Burke Mountain, Vermont and Tenney Mountain, New Hampshire.
- The family behind Wisconsin Resorts Inc. want to buy Burke Mountain but the resort’s receiver says he has a better buyer.
- Wisconsin Resorts-owned Searchmont, Ontario teases multiple future terrain expansions on a new trail map.
- The group behind Perfect North Slopes, Indiana will operate Swiss Valley, Michigan
- A rope evacuation at Norway Mountain, Michigan.
- Fresh off building four new lifts, Powder Mountain has two more in the pipeline.
- Ski Cooper, Colorado slashes midweek tickets to $45, revenue surges.
- Also at Cooper, a skier is airlifted to the hospital after falling from a lift.
- Vail settles a lawsuit with a woman who fell from a lift at Stevens Pass.
- Park City gets Pioneer going for the first time this season.
- Woods Valley, New York to replaces its T-Bar with a CTEC quad ending higher on the mountain.
- 7th Heaven at Blackcomb suffers from delayed openings, closures and reduced speeds due to an electrical issue.
- Snowbird’s Mineral Basin Express repair timeline is extended due to storms.
- Whaleback Mountain’s only chairlift is closed all week due to mechanical.
- Sandia Peak works to revive mothballed Chair 2.
- A 2005 Doppelmayr Funifor suffers a serious incident in Italy involving a severed haul rope and cabin colliding into the bottom terminal. The lift was outside operating hours and one operator suffered minor injuries.
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Well.. Powder Mountain and the beautiful Ogden Valley area below were ONCE.. a nice quiet peaceful place. Now catering to the millionaires out there. I should have purchased property there while I could.
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what’s the point of source links if the information is behind paywalls and hidden
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It can depend on a few factors such as browser settings and what not. It may not be behind paywalls or hidden to all. which article are you trying to access?
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Man, Vail had too bad of a year to raise pass prices and offer next to no changes or promises of capital expenditures. I think they may be in for some bad news come revenue time.
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Earnings call coming up on Monday. Wonder if the CEO will keep blaming the weather for the stock price and for Flying Bear at Attitash, Pioneer Lift at Park City, Comet Express at Heavenly, and many others.
https://investors.vailresorts.com
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Just happy to see Pioneer turning again. Compliments to the team up there at Park City for getting her going. Would be curious to know what ended up being the true mechanical/electronical failure here? Not posting blame, just curious. It’s a good learning experience.
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What’s wild is that they actually are spending a lot on capex––it’s just that in North America, it’s mostly things that aren’t related to lifts, lodges, or other skiing infrastructure. They’re spending $200 million over the next year on things like My Epic Gear and the My Epic app.
They’re also spending as much as $20 million each quarter on dividends to shareholders, which is by no means required, and have spent more than $500 million in the past two years on stock buybacks.
Meanwhile there are places like Whistler-Blackcomb that probably need $100-$150 million just in lift-related capex over the next 5-7 years.
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Why does anyone think lawyer Goldberg has any interest at all in selling Burke? He will milk that cash cow until he’s dead.
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He does seem uninterested in progress, that’s for sure. Sucks for the NEK folks who don’t have any kind of stability.
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How odd with an open roof on the top station in Antercëp, that has to be quite unusuall for new lifts.
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I have said it before, but Ikon really needs a pass tier below their existing Base Pass. Having nothing between the Session Pass (which does not price or sell well) and the $909 Base Pass is where Vail runs in circles around them with their regional and Local Passes. With Ikon’s financial structure, it would likely be difficult to do with many non-Alterra partners. However, some combination of unlimited and midweek-only access at June, Schweitzer, Snowshoe, BBMR, Solitude, Stratton, Sugarbush, Winter Park, Crystal, and A-Basin priced somewhere in the $600-$700 range, replacing a number of their single mountain options, would do incredibly well and likely not cannibalize existing sales.
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I don’t know about all the Alterra resorts, but in the East Sugarbush and Stratton both offer weekday passes. But yes, they are only good at those resorts, so not the same as Epic.
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