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 [...]
Travel and other obligations will keep this blog off the air until ski season really starts, but thoughts of skiing are never far from the center of my universe.
I just returned home from several weeks in Colorado and was catching up on the local newspapers when I spied a piece in which the reporter bought [...]
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, [...]
It looks like it’s been a tough year for ski instructors and real estate agents in ski towns. We all know about the piling up of inventories of unsold properties across ski country and I’d heard anecdotal reports of a fall off in ski lessons. At last week’s Mountain Travel Symposium, an annual affair where [...]
The economic turbulence continues to impact the ski business. According an Associated Press report on the Denver post website Vail Resorts today announced it was cutting employee wages by up to 10% starting April 2 for non seasonal workers. This winter’s seasonal workers will not be affected. Executives will face the 10% cut and the [...]
