Thinking of staying at the ultimate luxury ski lodge? There’s a lot of competition, but The Hotel de Charme Les Airelles in Courcheval France is perhaps the ultimate in price anyway. Much Googling failed to turn up a bonafide room rate card, so perhaps this is a place where if you have to ask you [...]
I live near Jackson Hole and every year I toy with the idea of buying a season pass there, but I balk at its price tag, this year it is $1970. If I took advantage of its summer price discount I’d pay only $1675. If I skied 50 days I’d end up paying about $33 [...]
I just read a report on Firsttracksonline stating that the Aspen Skiing Company signed on to a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal advocating for “both capping and putting a price for the first time ever on the pollution that causes global warming.”
I applaud ASC, but have to ask, where are Vail Resorts, [...]
In a previous post, There Goes the Neighborhood, I wondered about the future of the Yellowstone Club now that economic sanity is being valued even by people with enough money to live frivolously indefinitely. Has all the bad PR and gloating by critics and schadenfreudenistas permanently branded the YC as a new kind of toxic [...]
Two new confirmations crossed my computer screen today about the overdue bursting of the real estate markets in places people thought would be immune- Aspen and Jackson Hole. On Wednesday the Wall Street Journal’s wealth reporter posted that Pitkin County (home of Aspen) saw real estate transactions fall by 40% last year and the dollar [...]
Here’s a trend I don’t like. Once resorts discover a new way to cater to the wealthy that increases their profit margin, the cost of skiing for the rest of us goes up too. The wealthy want “better” food choices; soon everyone has to pay $9 for a burger. The wealthy only do private lessons; [...]
Only 3″ fell overnight as a new storm moves into the Teton Mountains, but up to a foot of snow is predicted to fall by the time the storm exits for the Great Plains. As usual, accompanying stiff winds will create lots of horizontal snow movement, cause whiteouts and aggravate the already nasty avalanche situation. [...]
