| Well said, TTB. As with most things in life, it's all about balance. I should also take this opportunity to once again thank the mods, not only for their contributions as members and performing tasks as moderators, but for acting as a sounding board for me from time to time. I do believe we all balance each other out pretty well. Hey....there's that balance thing again.
I'd like to make another point about strengthening our relationship with the ski areas, and this is not related to the selling of vouchers, but it's still somewhat applicable to the discussion. The Sundown crew here has been very vocal about the mountain and I have communicated quite often with the mountain ops manager and terrain/events guy. Brian indicates that they also monitor the board quite frequently. So through our feedback and correspondences, Sundown has preserved and even expanded their mogul philosophy, so far as to even hold a mogul competition this season which was quite successful. I can tell you confidently that this would never had happened if we had not built the relationship we have today. So while AZ represents only a small contingent of the overall skier demographic, we can and do have an impact.
With that said, building relationships with the ski areas goes beyond what some consider financial motives. The Sundown bump thing is one example of on slope changes due in part to this forum. Nothing major and it doesn't affect that many of us, but it's still a result of maintaining that reasonable balance TTB talks about. |