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It's inevitable that they're going to start throwing some of those Peak resorts they bought pre Covid over the side. Somebody will probably buy Hunter, but, some of the others? Don't think so.

Windham is too close for lodging investment. Didn't take off at Hunter. Too many day trippers.

Oh, calm down. This isn't even working at Windham. They tried, but can't get enough stupid money behind it. Most of that NY money they're chasing spends it in the Hamptons and gets on a plane to cool places in the winter. I mean, there's some of it there, Windham ain't Tannersville, but not...

So the DOJ is sueing to break up Live Nation/Ticketmaster. Why is this important? Jared Smith, the new CEO of Alterra, was a global chairman of president at Ticketmaster before Alterra. He helped build that monopoly. And now I'll bet he's been talking to Vail about a merger.

Yah, the former CEO of Ticketmaster, one of the most hated monopolies in our country, is going to tell me how he's he's going to squash the anger of the average skier in America. Right.

Everybody's car insurance is going up. It's a national problem. And, in cons, you forgot to say that it's one of the coldest places in the country.

Hard to argue. But, there's fun up there. Another thing. Breck is so big, and has such a large base of locals working, that it gets cut up immediately by them in a storm. One morning I realized I was racing to get goods against, like, a hundred instructors in the trees before they had to go to...

Oh yeah, agreed Two of the best powder days I have had when living in Summit were the first and second April Mondays in 2013 or something, dates are lost in the haze. Loveland got hammered over both weekends, chair 9 was closed, but opened the next day to bluebird crystals in the air. It was...

2011 is so, 2011. The front range just keeps on exploding, and Breck is a far flung rec town to that front range, centered in Denver. It's a thing for Denver kids to drive up there for partying Friday or Saturday, without skiing. Like Hunter to Jersey and CT. kids. Best analogy is the Hamptons...

Abasin and high Copper are so much better in April, because, more than anything, they ain't Breck.

Oh yeah. Last time I did a "residency" in Dillon, I went to Breck once. Once. At the time, I'm pretty sure, it was number one in the nation in day visits. More than Vail. It was a Friday, so I thought it was cool, and said, wtf, it's Friday to strangers, and they replied, har har, Friday is the...

And no sewers. Cable?

That's a teardown. Hope they don't screw up the mosaic. Took a lot of time to do that. Man, looking at the comps, and that certainly is an argument against the futility of the Tupper project. Here you are, decades in with Gore as a very well funded ski area by the state, and you can't give that...

The thing is, when I first went to Utah a few times, you would look around and say, damn, the houses are big everywhere. And it dawned on me, with a little help from a few locals, that, haha, Mormons like big families. Now it's everywhere, even Windham, of all places, but, back then, they...

Well, yeah, it's the only town that can accommodate ski club level needs. I was there when the BSA was having their week (hot black women in well tailored one piece suits. Heaven). And it can actually house Sundance and skiers at the same time. Or, used to. Sundance week was cool, because those...

Great stuff. He does a bit about skiing, too.

Well, there's a town there (Park City). At one point in my life, I was thinking seriously of retiring there. Lame hill, compared to the rest, but, an actual all season town with two golf courses, film festival, bars, and pretty much equidistant to the two canyons and Snowbasin/Powder. Five, six...

Yeah, but the subject is SLC.

I-70 is different. That's front range Denver.