Harvey
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Plattekill Conditions
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Harvey
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- Jul 15, 2020
Today was quite a day.
From a skiing POV, the snow started out soft-ish.
We were certainly hoping for sun to put in an appearance and it did, at the end of the ski day. It may have made a bit of a difference, but not too much.
Still the snow did gradually soften all day. Block, which was left 90% ungroomed was firm in the morning but it got a bunch of skier traffic that softened it, and after 2pm it was all I skied.
I went from 8:45 to 4:45 with one 30 minute break.
I had the great honor to meet and ski with Ira's wife Lori McIntosh of Bobcat fame. She was the last skier with me until 4:45. The last 4 or 5 runs were the best of the day. Because we didn't ride the lift together, we'd stop at the Block headwall and I asked her Bobcat questions. We should probably interview her and Ira, and Ira's dad.
Most interesting was the apres scene. Because the "last day" was a Saturday I was able to hang out, and after 5:30 it was really all employees. Laz and Danielle were relieved after so much uncertainty in November, with risk of incurring huge electric bills, while facing the ever present possibility of shut down.
I know every ski area faced the same thing, but this is just a married couple with 2 college age kids, like many of us. "Hey honey what do you say, do we spend $50,000 on electricity we might never recover?" "Sure!"
Danielle and Laz had to do some thing else every ski area had to do. Decide how many passes to sell, then for each day, estimate passholder attendance and then make day tickets available. They devised a system that had four "states":
Holiday/Non Holiday
New Snow, No New Snow
...and went from there, with estimates on passholder attendance.
Plattekill products sold very well this season except for F&B. To have the season work out the way it did, you could see the joy and relief on their faces.
I left just before dark, and blasted Santana all the way home.
From a skiing POV, the snow started out soft-ish.
We were certainly hoping for sun to put in an appearance and it did, at the end of the ski day. It may have made a bit of a difference, but not too much.
Still the snow did gradually soften all day. Block, which was left 90% ungroomed was firm in the morning but it got a bunch of skier traffic that softened it, and after 2pm it was all I skied.
I went from 8:45 to 4:45 with one 30 minute break.
I had the great honor to meet and ski with Ira's wife Lori McIntosh of Bobcat fame. She was the last skier with me until 4:45. The last 4 or 5 runs were the best of the day. Because we didn't ride the lift together, we'd stop at the Block headwall and I asked her Bobcat questions. We should probably interview her and Ira, and Ira's dad.
Most interesting was the apres scene. Because the "last day" was a Saturday I was able to hang out, and after 5:30 it was really all employees. Laz and Danielle were relieved after so much uncertainty in November, with risk of incurring huge electric bills, while facing the ever present possibility of shut down.
I know every ski area faced the same thing, but this is just a married couple with 2 college age kids, like many of us. "Hey honey what do you say, do we spend $50,000 on electricity we might never recover?" "Sure!"
Danielle and Laz had to do some thing else every ski area had to do. Decide how many passes to sell, then for each day, estimate passholder attendance and then make day tickets available. They devised a system that had four "states":
Holiday/Non Holiday
New Snow, No New Snow
...and went from there, with estimates on passholder attendance.
Plattekill products sold very well this season except for F&B. To have the season work out the way it did, you could see the joy and relief on their faces.
I left just before dark, and blasted Santana all the way home.
