I guess that's my biggest complaint with Kircher. I don't agree with all of the master development plan. Kircher wanted to sell to an owner that...

I'll never boycot Crystal, no matter what. I have no choice. It would be like you refusing to ski at Bachelor. Then what's the point of living in...

Great, now that East Peak has mostly burned, you don't have to worry about the base area burning for a long, long time. The burn zone is one giant...

I know this is a joke but Greenwater is a massive flood/lahar plain. There is not much more development that you will see there. And we have urban...

It's because Bachelor is owned by another spoiled rich kid who was handed all his money from daddy.

Vail, Inc. has been around and traded publicly since 1997. By comparison, Amazon was founded in 1994. So Vail is just as entrenched as other...

Alterra has already announced plans to build a 100 room hotel at the base. They break ground on that after they finish the new lodge that is being...

Ok, where do we draw the line? Forcing electric vehicles on the public is ok. Should we force solar on all new construction? Should we ban natural...

But the person in the city who doesn't drive and relies on transit and ride shares to get around would still be paying their fair share. The gas tax...

To be completely honest, Alterra's management of Crystal has irked me in some ways, but overall, the skiing experience is still enjoyable and not...

A per miles driven tax is not anti free market. It is simply forcing those who consume resources to pay for the true costs of their consumption....

In a perfect world, California wouldn't force people to go electric whether they want to or not. But in a perfect world, we wouldn't have...

I agree with AR that a free market economy is the essential basis of the American economy and that we should only rely on regulation to manipulate...

Lots of fucking apologist here. The guy was handed a ski area by his daddy and then said, I don't want it, and sold it to Alterra. His family owns 11...

The owner of White Pass can claim that Vail (or Alterra) doesn't want to buy White Pass all they want, but I don't believe it. It's just posturing so...

I totally understand why Alterra and Vail each desperately wanted to acquire a Seattle area ski resort. There's 4 million people in Seattle metro,...

Bacherlor, Big Sky, and Sun Valley are all legitimate destination resorts. Crystal and Stevens are not, and never will be no matter how hard Alterra...

He bought it from his Dad. Is that really buying it? Alterra and Vail would love to buy all these ski areas but they can't if the current owners...

I completely agree. Have you seen Alterra's plans for Palisades in California? Rip out all the parking to build hotel, condo, timeshares, along with...

Then why doesn't Baker sell to Vail? Why doesn't White Pass sell to Alterra? Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming are all devoid of Alterra and...

Ok Brit, why did he decide to sell to Alterra? To me, when you own something like a ski resort, or a professional sports team, you owe it to the...

True, but the Sonics can easily be replaced with an expansion team where as Crystal cannot. Maybe his health problems played into his decision to...

He'll forever be remembered as the Howard Schultz of the PNW ski world. Both were not from the PNW, had oogles of money but chose to sell something...

Because they are lazy. They probably figured skiing from that low spot saddle was the safest spot, or best snow, so if they went up the ridge, they...

Curious why you say tire maintenance is reduced? Aren't electric cars heavier, or just as heavy as ICE counterpart? Wouldn't weight be the primary...

In my view, what some view as "insane flooding and mudslides" is actually completely normal and just a result of humans inhabiting lands that have...

Bunion posted this about Kircher: https://www.explorebigsky.com/a-ski-industry-visionary-john-kircher-dies-at-64/47590

Terrible. I think we all have stopped in what we thought were safe zones that were not actually 100% safe. Safe 999 times out of a thousand....

This is why I chose to live West of the Cascades. We don't really get a PWL here, even in funky years like this one. The only sketchy incident I've...

I was up on the Chair Peak shoulder in April 14 and noticed two skiers climbing up, and then skiing down that line. Turned out to be Drew Trabke, who...