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"Rumbough's parents were Dina Merrill (actress, only child of Post Cereal heiress Marjorie Merriwether Post and Edward Francis Hutton, the founder of EF Hutton & Co ) and Stanley M Rumbough, Jr (Colgate-Palmolive heir). Rumbough is clearly well financed." Fine, it may be a solution to survival...

Oh sure, but, I'm being a little sarcastic and referring back to the time when most areas started with a rope tow. Saddleback would be a good model to follow, but no way the town would be allowed to manage in any way.

How about starting with a rope tow and proceeding from there?

Maybe somebody could buy it, build luxury "camp" homes, and promise to open the ski hill again after the snowmaking infrastructure is sold.

They sort of cover ski racing, but horribly.

Just a few years ago they were selling the Boomer pass for about 150.

I guess 15 is going to be twenty lanes wide soon.

Permanent venues. But that doesn't buy too many mansions or Ferraris.

If anyone has any doubts that the Olympics have abandoned any pretense of being a showcase for amateur athletes, go no further than the announcement that LeBron James, possibly the richest athlete in the world, will be carrying the American flag into the opening ceremony in Paris. Don't ask me...

Under construction in 1906.

The Olympics are just a big, corrupt TV show. I personally boycott it.

One could argue that they have a "dominant market position". But PE guys don't care about that so much. If the stock gets cheap enough, they'll come in, buy the company,maybe with the help of Vail's board when they offer all the relevant actors a sweet buyout deal to lube the gears, so to speak...

Well funded? I know he is "sponsored" by Mammoth, therefore, Alterra, and Elan, probably a few other equipment makers, but I kinda doubt he's what you could call rich. He sure seems happy all the time, though. Check out his Instagram. Love that hat.

Always a smile on his face. He bikes a lot, too. He's not wearing shoes because he took his cleats off. Up on the Col de Galibier in the French Alps.

You're right. Vail Inc. is a prime target for a private equity firm to come in and break it all apart.

Actually, the Biden WH has been threatening a lot of companies with anti trust actions, although I think it's a lot of empty hand waving, and won't last. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/30/heres-how-biden-may-cement-his-antitrust-legacy-in-2024-00132756

I don't know. I smell a certain kind of corruption going on there, like someone at Vail making a phone call to someone at the DOJ to make life hard for their competition. How in the world can the anti trust division go after the ABasin deal and not do anything about Vail basically owning...

Impressive speed. If that didn't work, all the wealthy Jackson residents should have pooled some money for a helicopter commute service to get the help over from Victor.

Much of what we read by so called journalists today is PR.

Yup. Just a few strategically placed. Yeah, Hunter is probably never going. But, logistically, some of the smaller areas just have to be a pain in the ass and unprofitable.