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So I'm seeing 99 8 hour tickets available for Sunday and nothing for Saturday as of right now. Kind of sucks because as of now they are calling for rain on Sunday.

I do appreciate their shiny foil lettering

Website says assembled in Vail so I'm sure the hat is imported.

I just looked into a ski town all star hat but $50 for a custom one is pretty crazy. Anyone have a Cricut? Would be cool to put the PASR logo on a hat, or some classic PASR quotes. I know a bunch of people would walk around with "Titty Sparkles" on a hat, until they got home and had to hide it from the wife.

I usually try to fly out on an early morning flight or else I would be taking this whole thing to the train thread

I was watching Shark Tank the other day and a guy came on to pitch https://www.odrskis.com/ to the sharks. Looks like it's a sleazy takeover of Sled Dogs. He did not get a deal.

The upper vs lower thing is new since January but the daily rate is the same as long as you're there for more than 72 hours

Garage parking at PHL is discounted since economy parking is closed. That's what I did last time.

I mean I agree about snowboarding not being great at transportation so the next time I need to get from town to town in the snow I'll use skis. If I just want to go noodle around and have some fun I think the board will do just fine.

Has camelback done renewal pricing before or is this a first for them?

So much hate for teams. Any particular reason why? It's what we use for everything at work, we are all in on Microsoft, and I really don't have many complaints about it. I use zoom occasionally but never have for any sort of collaborative document editing which is where Teams works pretty well.

$200 would be a hard no for me unless it included a helicopter or snowcat.

I took another mandatory Covid test this morning. I studied really hard for this one so I hope I pass

How were the trails? Did the cord hold up as well as I would expect it to?

That just looks like a scraped up rocky mess with shrubbery everywhere. Would be OK with a bunch of fresh snow on it but otherwise, meh.

I mean for us in a gigantic multinational company we buy so much from Microsoft, including our shitty ERP that they are throwing in Power BI for free to replace Tableau PS I'm on Teams right now working with my Marketing class case study team.

They could just be at the forefront of being cheap and usable haha

Why does that scare you? My company is switching over to that. I've never actually worked with it.

Pretty sure it's an illuminati vs free masons bidding war kind of issue. Which one is Biden in again?

Looks like the rain/snow line won't ever go as high as Allentown/Bethlehem. Just north of Quakertown is the last of the rain as of now. So this will be an all snow event for Mt. Bleu

I mean in some form or fashion it will absolutely stick around. The only question I would have is how many tickets are offered/sold at this price? It might take a while but there is always a market correction. Either the market will catch up to the $100 ticket price or the price will have to fall. If $100 is the new normal for the Poconos will $180 be the new normal out west? Where does the price of a ticket in Vermont fall? What does this do to Ikon and Epic? How do they handle school groups on Wednesday nights? If you ask me this is a more complex version of the whole Gamestop saga. An unstable and one in a million market that isn't really reflective of anything typical in the industry.

That one day ticket pricing of $100 is just in a constrained market though. Once the competition from all of the other forms of entertainment come back next year it's going to be a lot harder to get away with those kind of prices at high volume. When there is nothing else to do in the cities, there is tons of snow everywhere and the weather is nice Blue is worth the $100 ticket. Next year when everything but the trails is dirt, people are comfortable going to dinner or seeing a movie or going to a birthday party and it inevitably rains hard in February Blue isn't worth much more than $40. I think dynamic ticket pricing could definitely work in their favor next year if they use the $109 price for snowy bluebird days but they will be hard pressed to get a significant number of people to pay that on other days. All it would take is for another mountain to undercut them with an $80 day ticket and all of a sudden a family of 4 can save $116 by driving an extra 30 minutes or they can decide that $436 isn't worth it for a day on the mountain when they can use that money for something with more perceived value. The crowd out there on these crazy weekends has got to be comprised of a lot of "I haven't skied in 10 years" skiers or "There's so much snow in my yard I had to get out" skiers. You can't count on those people for next year. As for season pass pricing, they can probably get a few extra bucks out of the $429 price but they have to be careful to not push people away and towards Epic or Ikon. @Mixilplix had a good thought in the lift line yesterday, offer returning season passholders a lower rate than new ones. Create a sense of customer loyalty. Give people a reason to come back year after year (besides the parking lot). If the returning pass is $50 bucks cheaper than the new price it gives a serious incentive to buy. Do cool things like print a fancy pass for your 5th anniversary or after 20 years you get the 21st free. A loyal customer is a profitable customer.

Does boulder still have a pipe cutter?

I guess we can hope that we get some overcast days in the next week or so to preserve the snowpack. Too many hours above 32 degrees for my liking on the forecast.

43.82 mph! Nice!