raisingarizona
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Ok but you still have to pay the cat driver, insurance, a guide with at least first aid first responder to get people safely down the mountain during an incident or someone capable for that and then there's the cat and ski run maintenance etc. Besides all of that how many days a season is the natural snow skiing good enough for people to justify spending money for cat rides there? If it's not soft snow skiing then you'd have to groom the runs, that's another large expenditure and if you can afford to drive there to pay for such an experience why not just fly out west to a location that can better guarantee quality conditions?There is some money backing the volunteers that run the mountain. They do an amazing job. I don’t think they loose money on the cat skiing. Cat is paid for. So just fuel.
Yeah the owner is a jerk. He lost his shirt when his poorly maintained airline had a plane fall out of the sky and the resulting lawsuits took all his money. No idea how it didn’t take the mountain too. The deal has only been with the same snake oil salesman that has fallen through. They are made for each other.
Somehow the volunteers keep it going hoping someone sees the value in the place. It was fun to skin and ski the upper mountain last year
I just don't understand how north eastern United States cat operation could possibly make any sense. The weather is way too fickle and the overhead way too high imo. I'm a simple poor man ski bum so maybe I don't have a grasp on how many rich people skiers are actually out there with nothing better to do.