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I think they can get away with paying less because its a seasonal business and also the perk of a free season pass and I believe discounted season passes for family members. I know they do about 400,000 skier visits per year so that number is $140 per visit but they make revenue from other means besides just lift tickets including tubing, lessons, rentals, catering/weddings, mountain biking, disc golf, adventure park, gift shops and food. I know camelback sold for about $70 million and they have alot more facilities than blue. To think a ski area sold for about what it makes in one years revenue is crazy. I don't know much about business valuation but many large corporations sell for many times their annual revenue. I'm so happy I'm not in the ski resort business. Its just so fickle. Usually XMAS week is a washout and last year MLK day wasn't crowded at all.

When I was a freshman they had the Stowe/sugarbush pass and when they ended that I didn't get to ski with half my ski buddies in college. Kind of sucked....that's a real first world problem. The only time I ever had a ski rack was when I was in college because I was giving alot of people rides skiing.

And 7 miles closer but college freshman don't usually know those sorts of things. I chose a Stowe pass over the huge pass which consisted of sugarbush, jay peak and MRG.

Yeah alot of people who I was in the dorms with didnt make it past the second year.

How does your son like UVM? Whenever I get an 802-656-xxxx number I know what it is.

Nice is your youngest in 10th grade... No more people die during the winter but sales are way lower because memorial stones generally aren't installed during the winter time because the cemetery's don't install concrete foundations during the winter time. For example we've done more business so far in November than all of January and February combined. This warm fall is really helping out business. Most monument companies shutdown during the winter months and from late December to late February many of our suppliers shutdown.

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Wow my 20-30 million figure was wicked low...that's some serious revenue.

No it was on his foot...he was out alot of last season cause of a Crossfit injury.

That has me SMH shaking my Herman!!!

What the fuck...it would be different if blue was a non profit or something like mad river glen for instructors to help paint benches for no pah but that is fucked up. And yeah insurance should cover that but their premiums will go up. With my employees they don't have to pay for anything out of pocket, not insurance, delivery guy gets his work boots and clothes paid for and even when I go to Wendy's and get something for me and the office manager it's on the company credit card. I gotta keep her happy cause she does the work I don't wanna do. Anyway shame on blue for having instructors paint benches for no money and shame on the instructors for doing it.

Root always used to do a countdown to Black Friday so now it's called Root Friday. Unfortunately Root just had surgery and will be out of commission for awhile.

Looking like Big Boulder might be able to open with a bonkyard on root Friday.

I think Jackson hole as a home base and where I'd get a season pass and then travel to some other areas. There are motels in Jackson that rent rooms for under $300 a week mid winter.

That million is a drop in the bucket for Blue. They probably gross 20-30 million a year. Can just raise the price a couple percent to make up for it.

Was Danny around back in your liftee and park Crüe days??

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I could prob swing it next season but more realistically in like 3-5 years and I'd like to spend every season out there and the rest of the year in Allentown.

For sure I figure 4 months in the Rockies will run me about $15k plus gotta pay my bills back here. I can delegate most of my work out to the office manager during our slow winter months. I will save some Johnny Cash not having to buy a blue mountain pass.

Indiggio maybe they'll hire someone else to seed the bumps. A shame flying Johnny burned his bridges with blue.

That's reason for me to save more Johnny Cash so I can spend the ski season in the Rockies.

I sort of believe that dry snow accumulates much faster due to high precip to snow ratios. An inch of precip makes about 8-10 inches of wet snow but 20-25 inches of dry snow.

I hope mid winter is extremely cold and snowy.

ABasin could have alot of terrain open by thanksgiving. The Pali terrain is apparently filling in well. Flying to Colorado>driving to Killington. If blue still isn't open in a month I may have to do the same thing. I can hold out a few more weeks.

Quarter a week seems about right and I don't have a ski waxing iron to lose. What kind of bad feeling??