Fast Tracks: Paying to Cut the Line

Brownski said:
Yeah, where I worked each bottom shack got a little Fanny pack full of trail maps for the ticket checker to hand out- they had a set of wire clippers attached with a shoe lace. I was actually too laid back to ever clip anybody’s ticket. I mostly was bumping chairs. I saw lots of bad behavior though- Lots of people that maybe deserved it.
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Never worked for the mountain but was asked to be a chaperone for a high school ski club. Dude I worked with wife ran the club as she was an English teacher who really enjoyed skiing. We’d go down after work to “work” chaperoning at night.
I asked him what I was supposed to do. He told me if ya see anyone fighting to break it up and if ya see em drinking and/or smoking weed to take it from them. I’d ski the Ptarmy lift where there were very rarely any kids skiing & never saw a fight nor received any contraband. Used the chaperone voucher for a discounted season pass. It was a nice gig.
 
tirolski said:
Seems as if folks also got recently riled about a firing at Sugarbush.
www.sevendaysvt.com

The Firing of Skiing Legend John Egan Leaves Many Die-Hard Downhillers Soured on Sugarbush

In the last four decades, extreme skier John Egan earned international acclaim for descending some of the world's gnarliest peaks, many of which had never...
www.sevendaysvt.com www.sevendaysvt.com
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No surprise. That's what big corps do in the name of the bottom line.

They're usually too clueless to understand long-term value, they just seek short term profit. It was sad to see when Sugarbush sold out to Alterra. Another evil corp Disneyifying skiing.
 
Was Win Smith the owner? If so, hard to blame him for selling. Lots of financial pressure added by Vail and Alterra.

I think that John Egan story is old. Why is everyone reposting it now?
 
Andy_ROC said:
They're usually too clueless to understand long-term value, they just seek short term profit. It was sad to see when Sugarbush sold out to Alterra. Another evil corp Disneyifying skiing.
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Don't know the story between Egan and Sugarbush. Situation may have a history that goes back earlier than the Alterra purchase. As is the case for Crystal in WA, which was owned by John Kircher after he separated himself from Boyne Resorts from a business standpoint.

Alterra is not the same as Vail Resorts in terms of operational approach to the individual resorts. That's pretty clear if you look at the resort websites. What I get being on the e-list for a few Alterra resorts read very differently. Given how Snowshoe, Steamboat, Solitude, and Deer Valley operate, it would be very hard for someone unfamiliar with the ski industry to realize they are owned by the same company. Especially since Ikon has so many independent partners. In contrast, the websites for the Epic locations in PA look very similar to the websites for the New England VR resorts or the resorts out west.
 
From the article in Post #242:

" . . .
But that explanation may be overly simplistic. Egan's dismissal came in the midst of a global pandemic that decimated winter sports revenues in 2020. Some who know Egan and Hammond said that there's been bad blood between them for years and that the move was more about egos, jealousy and differences in leadership styles.
. . ."
 
snoloco said:
It's worth noting that Killington has pushed back the start date of Fast Tracks from November 19 to December 11.
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Why do you think that is? Limited terrain would increase lines but maybe increase animosity too?
 
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