Windham Mountain Going Private?

A few excerpts from the article:
  • Windham Mountain will open for the coming season as the “Windham Mountain Club,” offering the option of $175,000 lifetime memberships while still selling traditional lift tickets.
  • One-day passes will be unavailable on Saturdays from early January until early March. One-day passes would be available other days of the week during the season’s peak, including Sundays. The idea behind the two-day requirement for Saturday passes was to get people on the mountain and in the town of Windham for longer amounts of time.
  • Windham initially said it was rebranding as a “semi-private club." An initial graphic included the text “Say goodbye to Windham Mountain.” The resort’s website called the skiing experience at Windham “a rare time in rarified air,” and referred to the mountain as “the ‘gilded outlier’ nestled within a rough-hewn Catskill Mountain range,” according to archived copies of the website, which has since been changed. Kate Sullivan, the spokeswoman for Windham Mountain, admitted there were problems with the rollout of the resort’s rebranding, but said the core values of Windham have not changed.
  • Windham will invest $70 million to $90 million over several years to upgrade the resort, including improving the golf course, redeveloping all existing eateries and adding a mid-mountain restaurant and a Mediterranean restaurant in the lodge.
  • Windham is getting rid of its mountain biking trails, according to Sullivan, who called it a “really tough and heartbreaking decision” that was made because the course catered to advanced riders, and the resort wanted to offer warm-weather activities more people could partake in.
 
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Bumps said:
An initial graphic included the text “Say goodbye to Windham Mountain.” The resort’s website called the skiing experience at Windham “a rare time in rarified air,” and referred to the mountain as “the ‘gilded outlier’ nestled within a rough-hewn Catskill Mountain range,” according to archived copies of the website, which has since been changed.
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This was incredibly tone deaf.

It may well appeal to the ultimate target.

Can families pass the membership down, or when dad passes does the membership (and $175,000) disappear?
 
Harvey said:
Can families pass the membership down, or when dad passes does the membership (and $175,000) disappear?
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Great Question. Nonsense numbers but I had some fun with it:

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That's a lot of dough for a mountain that doesn't even sound that private, and some shit that hasn't even been built yet.
 
TheGreatAbyss said:
That's a lot of dough for a mountain that doesn't even sound that private, and some shit that hasn't even been built yet.
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It's competitive with a season pass? 🤠
 
I speculate that the price is for the privacy of a private club. So if the general public can buy tickets what's the point? Private or public. Pick one. Doing the hokey pokey is a disaster in the making.

Full disclosure my house didn't cost that much.
 
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