F Vail

[tirolski]

Vail stock at a 4 year low. I wonder they'll do now? Probably won't be good for employees or skiers. After all they're in the stock price business not the ski business.

Vail Resorts stock hits 4-year low after announcing that next season’s pass sales are down

Vail Resorts has been attempting to move guests away from walk-up lift ticket sales and into pre-purchased passes in recent decades, and that strategy seems to have worked better than intended in 2023-24. Company officials...

www.vaildaily.com

$165 today,
How long until this is down and out?
Maybe they’ll keep buying their own shares till poof.

 

[saratogahalfday]

Copied and pasted from the Ski the Northeast FB page:

"At Attitash on the Flying Bear lift- the jaw which an opens and closes suffered a metallurgic failure. This did NOT just get there and is indicative of lack of inspection. From the looks of the metalurgy the crack has been forming for some time.
More concerningly there is eyewitness testimony that the grip sensor tripped more than once. The lift operator either on their own- or more concerningly possibly under direction from someone upstairs- reset the lift safety sensor and sent it anyways. A man fell 30’ down as a result. That could have been you.
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The mobile jaw (part that opens and closes) broke on the dopplemayr grip at the bear peak incident today.
There’s eye witness reports there was a loud bang and it threw a grip force sensor at the terminal. In my opinion: Judging by the look of the metal there was a detectable stress crack forming in that grip for some time.
Whoever was operating the lift is at fault for overriding the safety stops on the machine turning it back on again. What a shame:
“A grip force fault on that type of lift can be reset from the operator control panel. A grip position paddle switch has to be physically reset in the terminal. On a Doppelmayr lift of that vintage. If a grip force fault occurs the lift must be reversed and the carrier brought back into the terminal. The carrier that caused the fault must be unloaded and the grip inspected before the carrier is relaunched.”
Eyewitness report posted to Facebook noting the override of the safety features
“I was in line when this chair #57 went through the terminal. There was a loud bang that caused some snow and ice to dislodge from the terminal and triggered a safety stop. The attendants reset and it was business as usual. I was on chair 60. The lift stopped after chair 58 smashed tower 6 and again the lift was reset and started running again at full speed. An individual on chair 59 was on the phone demanding the lift be stopped and it was.” (Eyewitness Copied from a seperate [sic] skiers group)"

If I were on that chair that fell, I would sue VR for a billion dollars.

 

[tirolski]

If I were on that chair that fell, I would sue VR for a billion dollars.

They might have lawsuit lines as long as their liftlines before it’s over.

 

[tirolski]

$165 today,
How long until this is down and out?
Maybe they’ll keep buying their own shares till poof.

Closed at $160 and change today.
Last to leave... flushit

 

[jasonwx]

Alt skipatrol V4 on Instagram: "What does a Denver pew pew have to do with our account??? WELL both have publicly shamed Vail, which seems to be the only way to get them to do the right thing. Imagine denying epic coverage to a victim u til the news

alt_patrol_backup on February 19, 2025: "What does a Denver pew pew have to do with our account??? WELL both have publicly shamed Vail, which seems to be the only way to get them to do the right thing. Imagine denying epic coverage to a victim u til the news calls about it. 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 @epicpass...

www.instagram.com

 

[Andy_ROC]

Couple of good videos about Vail. I've never seen either of these channels before but I think they did a good job.

 

[Johnny V.]

While the rest of our gang is going to Beaver Creek tomorrow (with Epic passes), I refuse to pay $200 for a "friends and family" one day pass. I'll ski at Copper again-tons of stuff to explore and it's paid for.

Not that Vail cares one bit, but I can feel righteous not contributing to their bottom line..............

 

[Andy_ROC]

This Snowbrains podcast is pre-strike with the Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association. Obviously very union biased but some insightful points about Vail Corp. Locals were not happy about Vail buying PC either. Seems to be a pervasive sentiment in communities where Vail invaded and took over.

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