VAIL SUCKS

[thetrailboss]

Do the GMs make decisions or are they just part of the borg? If so it doesn't matter.

Anecdotally, it appears to be the latter.

 

[kingslug]

There was a Big change when she took over.
Much more opened earlier..and yes early season was great but she opened stuff that looked more like what SB opens. I spent more time there last year.

 

[thetrailboss]

There was a Big change when she took over.
Much more opened earlier..and yes early season was great but she opened stuff that looked more like what SB opens. I spent more time there last year.

"That wasn't her. It was all me. You can thank me, and you're welcome!!!!!"

 

[crystalmountainskier]

Has it been that many? Belinda started as COO last year. Geoff, who went to Aspen, was in the role before her for four years. Am I missing someone?

Pete Sonntag. It was more than 3 years but still a lot of shuffling for a position that should be the pinnacle of one’s career.

 

[eatskisleep]

Much as we have seen recently with POWDR, Vail too will shed properties. For it is not a matter of it, but when. Hopefully they start with Wildcat.

 

[snoseek]

Much as we have seen recently with POWDR, Vail too will shed properties. For it is not a matter of it, but when. Hopefully they start with Wildcat.

I imagine that would tank their stock price and be a death spiral.

 

[deadheadskier]

I imagine that would tank their stock price and be a death spiral.

Not necessarily. Especially selling off a small, underperforming asset like Wildcat.

I mentioned J&J prior. Large multinational companies buy and sell businesses all of the time and the impact on the stock price is short lived.

Now if Vail were forced to sell off a Park City or Whistler; that would be real damaging to their brand and share values.

 

[jimmywilson69]

exactly but in the case of Vail the entire reason they keep those places is the locals pad the season pass numbers. Selling Attitash and Wildcat would be a net negative of passholders and therefore potential revenue.

Those places would be better owned by a private entity or a much smaller corporate operation that understands their place in the northeast ski hierarchy

 

[AdironRider]

While I think for most a GM is the pinnacle, for Vail it is just middle management.

 

[thetrailboss]

Much as we have seen recently with POWDR, Vail too will shed properties. For it is not a matter of it, but when. Hopefully they start with Wildcat.

And yet Vail is continuing to expand. They are buying Laax in Switzerland. That's not a molehill.

 

[2Planker]

Damn...didn't she just start at Stowe a year or 2 ago?

Probably another Cafeteria manager.....

 

[gittist]

Isn't frosting a cup cake the same as making and laying snow?? just wondering...

 

[x10003q]

Officers come and go, but it is the non-coms who run the show.

 

[Former Sunday Rivah Rat]

We were looking into mountain coasters in UT. What a ripoff the Park City one is! $39.00 to ride the mountain coaster each time.

https://www.parkcitymountain.com/explore-the-resort/activities/summer-activities/alpine-coaster.aspx

Snowbird lets you ride all day for $71.00

 

[BenedictGomez]

I imagine that would tank their stock price and be a death spiral.

Likely the exact opposite.

 

[joshua segal]

Likely the exact opposite.

The investing community goes quarter-to-quarter. The spring and summer quarters tend to lose and the stock price routinely falls in these months. Many analysts have sell-recommendations on ski-industry stocks due to long term worries about the effect of climate change, but that's an industry-wide problem - not an "only Vail" issue

 

[Teleskier]

And she did a lot of good there...mostly opening terrain early and in less than stellar condition...the way it should be...

I agree. I thought she did a lot of good here. And I felt happy that we were in good hands. She'll be missed.