drjeff
Well-known member
Profitable?
It's not fair to compare this year to a peak year, with it being as warm as it has been and visits being down accordingly. Beyond that, they're charging more than twice as much as ASC was for a season pass, and have a much better cost structure. As much as the demise of BMMC pisses me off as much as anyone, and a few of their other questionable decisions, saying it's a death spiral is just dumb. I'd bet even on a down year like this they're more profitable than under ASC.
I think that the question that also needs to be asked to give context to this year and whatever it's numbers are is "Did ANY ski area in the Northeast have an 'up' year over last year?"
If whatever's K's numbers turn out to be has them down far less than the New England ski area average, then was it really that bad of a year?? Especially considering what mother nature brought?