That sounds like a personal preference thing… better than spending 4.5 months on your knees…I spent 4.5 months on my back in ten mile canyon and this is how I get repaid!
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That sounds like a personal preference thing… better than spending 4.5 months on your knees…I spent 4.5 months on my back in ten mile canyon and this is how I get repaid!
Ah geez. I just looked at the epic pass out of curiosity and it looks like this behemoth company now owns even the very tiny little ant hill in Ohio that I grew up skiing in Carhartt coveralls.continues to oversell Epic passes and buy up your wonderful little yokel ski hills.
And to think they lost A-Basin in a monopoly lawsuit. Feels like the antitrust folks in this country have been asleep at the wheel.Ah geez. I just looked at the epic pass out of curiosity and it looks like this behemoth company now owns even the very tiny little ant hill in Ohio that I grew up skiing in Carhartt coveralls.
I reckon that with the two or so places I’ve skied in the last decade being on USFS land that I’ve been oblivious to the fact that nearly every ski joint in the US has been gobbled up by one of a few larger companies. Guess it’s just like everything else. Le sigh.
The J-1 program is certainly sweet for the employers as they are not paying unemployment, social sec, or medicare on the J-1 labor which saves them almost 8% versus a normal employee...Vail doesn’t want you, they want to say they do to build this but then they are going to fill it with their J-1 Visa staff that they pay almost nothing, bait and switch my friend. We’ve seen their play book over and over again.
Vail Resorts Increasingly Turn to J-1 Visa Exchange Program for Cheap Labor, Leaving Locals in Lurk
Katelyn Welsh and Nancy Vazquez investigate how local ski resorts increasingly use J-1 exchange visa holders, and new legal action…medium.com
They bought the shitty little, but wonderful, hill in Wisconsin that us FIBs used to raise hell on. And I have no idea why. I hate vail resorts so much.Ah geez. I just looked at the epic pass out of curiosity and it looks like this behemoth company now owns even the very tiny little ant hill in Ohio that I grew up skiing in Carhartt coveralls.
I reckon that with the two or so places I’ve skied in the last decade being on USFS land that I’ve been oblivious to the fact that nearly every ski joint in the US has been gobbled up by one of a few larger companies. Guess it’s just like everything else. Le sigh.
Not just Vail; many industries which do much better than ski resorts prefer J-1s over US citizens even though they are egregiously profitable, and could easily bear the cost. Greed personified.The J-1 program is certainly sweet for the employers as they are not paying unemployment, social sec, or medicare on the J-1 labor which saves them almost 8% versus a normal employee...
I get core checked
Dude you kinda looked like Matt Damon.Maybe so… been trying to stop this kind of poorly planned adverse impact in the valley since before oak was on hunt talk, well almost as long
FIFYDude you kinda looked like Matt Damon.
What a MASSIVE dork!
in @wllm's defense it was 2002... it could have been way worse. Could have had that haircut AND frosted tips to go with itDude you kinda looked like Matt Damon.
What a dork!
I think this is the crux of it, Vail Resorts has always been about the realestate.No idea if this is the case with this particular proposed development, nor does it really matter in this case, but would it tilt the perspectives of the people for this one if you eradicate the sheep and in 20 years when everyone has forgotten the restrictions sunset and the units get sold to millionaires so they can spend their week a year poorly skiing?
This is so great.Maybe so… been trying to stop this kind of poorly planned adverse impact in the valley since before oak was on hunt talk, well almost as long
Each county is different. Routt County’s minimum outside of an approved development is 35 acres.Does CO have a minimum amount of acres you have to own to build? In my county you have to have at least 3 acres in a rural area to build on unless it’s already zoned Residential. But some counties have much more.
Alterra isn’t any better. Deer Valley midweek day passes this week…I love Vail, they're totally all about the little guy...
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I believe my unrestricted Mammoth/June season pass when I was in college was $199.
Let’s be realistic. Employees aren’t working there to make a living. They are doing it for the ski pass. The solution is for people to find a real job and forgo “finding themselves” through time on the slopes in their 20’s. Vail will pay a real wage when they need to and not before. But the sheep get to stay.employee housing provided by resorts often doesn't even fall within the definition of affordable housing that real affordable housing organizations use
the “housing crisis” in these resort towns seems like a bunch of whining to me. If you don’t like the wages you should quit working for peanuts and go somewhere else and make a real living like the rest of us poor bastards. Life is full of tough decisions, most people don’t get to have fun for a living.Let’s be realistic. Employees aren’t working there to make a living. They are doing it for the ski pass. The solution is for people to find a real job and forgo “finding themselves” through time on the slopes in their 20’s. Vail will pay a real wage when they need to and not before. But the sheep get to stay.