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That's quite a gamble based on this years conditions, and there's still a lack of sensitivity to having egregious lift tickets for terrible condition

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Lift tickets are a headwind and a corporate problem, I dont disagree but the conditions this year are very much a fluke and anyone who skis regularly knows that.

Pass prices in general are pricing folks out but one bad year in our region isnt going to change the dynamics. Get good snow next year, and all those folks using their IKONs at Killington will come out for some Aspen/Steamboat et. all bc the snow and terrain are better where when its good.

Also note that Alterra and Vail have holdings all over the country and some internationally. One region having a bad year gets balanced out.

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either going to VT/ME/NH or simply flying to Europe and getting way more for the dollar.

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VT/ME/NH are rarely better bets than CO/UT/CA.

Europe has been true for a while and yet it isnt taking a huge chunk of the US ski business (yet). Pow hounds have Japan, which hold the same pricing benefits plus better food and drink options.

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I still think there's going to be a serious reckoning for the CO/UT/WY big ski resorts unless a big change in direction happens at the corporate level

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Its started. The Park City debacle two Christmases ago cost the CEO of Vail their position. Brought back an old CEO this year. The economics in these ski towns are rough to maintain a near min wage staff in top 20 cost of living counties, all while charging these outrageous prices for lift tickets and food/drink.

I just dont think a bad snow year out here is changing the calculus much. The issues have been at play for a good decade niw.

The west is going to burn down this summer.

I saw exposed rocks on north facing runs that get some grooming today. We're so fricked this summer

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if it was all math, then meteorologists would be correct all the time

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I mean, would it be the case?

Meteorology is all physics, which is explained in the language of math.

But ya know, we gotta simplify shite for the computers to get this done in a reasonable amount of time.

The issue isnt so much that we dont have a good idea whats missing, its the power to calculate it in a time that is useful for predictions

Fernet con Coca is the national drink of Argentina for a reason.

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the ole bartender’s handshake
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Just exceptional at hospitality, as well as intellectual pursuits.

Give me a Subaru Forester in most winter driving scenarios.

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Dr Josh is just a tool. Dude trying to flex by telling people at home how to calculate the evaporation rate at home

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Agreed.

Look, I took a bunch of math to be fairly good at this.

You dont need to understand much of it to be pretty good at weather as a lay person.

"Oh har har, look at me solve the frick out of this second order PDE."

Great bruh, you flexed your smart while enlightening nothing.

Now if Dr. Josh was using this to explain why BR wont get a bunch of ice.. good on him. But i find that equation pretty fricking complex to educate the masses. You know, bc it looks a lot like a linear best fit vs actual theory.

I dont need yall wetlegging me.

They got to have somebody watching. Loss prevention bruh.

And let me say, precip type and southern winter storms are far from what Im good at. Need to know mountain weather in Summit, Pitkin, Eagle, Park, Lake, or Clear Creek, County in Colorado... I got you.

Need a dude who's good at hurricanes, again, I got you. Though rds puts me to shame.

This shite, I got a decent feel on theory but frankly I lack experience to be good good at it.

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Seems unprofessional to get faded and troll folks looking for real time info on a potentially dangerous ice storm...

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Bruh, I think I gave yall a pretty strong explanation of what we're looking for, in terms of actual observations.

Plus, Im much more concerned with snowfall and avalanche mitigation in a very specific part of Colorado in my normal gig.