So Who is Behind Powder Mountain?

[raisingarizona]

No, it isn't.

You keep saying this, which makes it obvious you don't really know what the actual "climate science" you mention, actually says.

It's weird actually, almost like you fetish on the worst draconian outcome even though the science doesn't suggest this. FWIW, they've been generally "wrong" to the downside for decades now as most predictions have not been as bad as they said, but forgetting that point entirely, let's suggest "the climate science is correct" as you postulate, well, then it mean North American degrees Fahrenheit is about 4 degrees or so warmer 75 to 100 years from now, we will still have snow skiing literally every single place in North America where is currently exists.

The f you do. It won’t be sustainable to have a profitable ski product at that point. Most areas will fold and that product where it is still sustainable will be based on a very limited and extremely expensive product.

That’s just being real.

 

[raisingarizona]

How many awesome winters have you guys had out east during the last ten? How’s that drought looking right now for snowmaking?

Well at least you guys don’t get forest fires out east….oh wait, now ya do.

 

[machski]

How many awesome winters have you guys had out east during the last ten? How’s that drought looking right now for snowmaking?

Well at least you guys don’t get forest fires out east….oh wait, now ya do.

We have had quite a stretch of wet the last three weeks or so. We're we in a drought, yes. Was it a years long or even a year long drought?? Nope, like 4 months. By eastern standards it was super dry through that period but by western standards, it wouldn't have even touched on a drought.

Some eastern resorts may have been snowmaking water limited going into the start of October, but the number now limited has dropped substantially.

 

[Smellytele]

Could you buy a house there and pay the mortgage with the job you find there?


Ya, that’s what I figured. Jackson is the same way. The privatization of the greater Yellowstone area continues.

that wasn't you statement> Moving the goal posts as your statement was "... the public part of the ski area has become so expensive that most regular working class people have been priced out of skiing there."
skiing there and living there are 2 different animals.

 

[BenedictGomez]

It won’t be sustainable to have a profitable ski product at that point. Most areas will fold and that product where it is still sustainable will be based on a very limited and extremely expensive product.

That’s just being real.

No, that's just it; it is literally being the opposite of "being real" to suggest this dire draconian nonsense.

In what realm of possibility can you have "no skiing" with a mere 4 degree warmer net temps in 100 years, even negatively assuming:
A) This scientific predication is correct this time
B) Man will not invent or innovate a way to mitigate that worst-case prediction

If day time highs are 35 instead of 31 and nighttime lows are 21 instead of 17, for most of the window-frame of storm period it's still going to fricking snow! While on balance 4 degrees warmer WILL mean less snow and times when it would rain instead of snow, there will still be plenty of snow to ski on, and there are even some storms which would squeeze out MORE snow with slightly warmer temps, like warm advection storms.

I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.