Vail Resorts Raises Minimum Wage to $10/Hour Vail Resorts will begin paying its employees at least $10 per hour beginning September 26th, 2015 in all of the 8 states that they operate within. In California, Vail will pay $1 over minimum wage. In Wisconsin and Wyoming they’ll be paying $2.75 over minimum wage. In Colorado they’ll be paying $1.77 over minimum wage. “We are taking this step because it is incumbent on us to do the right thing for our employees as well as remain […] Industry News SnowBrains | June 22, 2015 1 Comment
Vail Gets Go Ahead to Create Largest Ski Resort in USA: The Park City Planning Commission cast a unanimous vote at City Hall on Wednesday in favor of Vail building an “interconnect gondola” to link Park City Mountain Resort to The Canyons. Once these two ski resorts are connected, they’ll become the largest ski resort in the USA. The gondola is planned to be completed before the beginning of the 2015/16 ski season. Vail plans to spend $50 million improving Park City and the Canyons this year as they mush these two resorts into […] Industry News SnowBrains | March 26, 2015 0 Comments
Vail Raises Single Day Ticket to $160 Single day, walk-up lift tickets have seen another increase in pricing this week at numerous Colorado ski destinations owned by Vail Resorts. Selling at $145 the Wednesday before Christmas, single day tickets to Vail and Beaver Creek are now $159 during the holiday season. These tickets also provide access to Breckenridge, Keystone, and Arapahoe Basin, all of which are owned by Vail Resorts. Resorts outside of CO are raising prices for the holiday season too – Deer Valley, Utah, went from $114 to $120. Whistler/Blackcomb, in […] Industry News ameliatraynor | January 5, 2015 16 Comments
“Vail Is Not the Enemy” | By Derek Taylor (note: Derek Taylor was the editor of Powder Magazine from 2008 to 2012. He wrote this piece for Outdoor Magazine.) Vail has gotten a lot of flak recently. Their lawyer-powered acquisition of Park City ski resort in Utah has kept them in the headlines for the past year. Vail now owns 11 ski resorts: Park City & The Canyons in Utah Kirkwood, Heavenly, & Northstar in California Beaver Creek, Vail, Keystone, Breckenridge in Colorado Afton Alps in Minnesota Mount Brighton in Michigan Some think that this enormous consolidation of the ski industry is a bad thing. Derek Taylor thinks it’s a good thing. One thing is for sure: Vail’s Epic Pass […] SnowBrains | October 8, 2014 2 Comments
BREAKING: Vail ACQUIRES Park City for $182.5 million in CASH We just saw on the newswires that Vail has settled its lawsuit against Park City by acquiring the resort from Powdr Corp. for $182.5 million in cash. This is surely the outcome that Vail was aiming for from day one. What does it mean for local and visiting skiers? Mountain operations of PCMR and Canyons will remain separate for the 2014-2015 ski season. However, Vail’s Epic and Epic Local passes will be valid at PCMR. All PCMR passes for the […] Bryan O’Sullivan | September 11, 2014 7 Comments
Did Park City Execute the Greatest Blunder of All-Time? A recent court order all but seems to have closed the book on the struggle to control the resort at Park City, Utah. In what apparently was an oversight of the most colossal variety, the former operators of Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) missed the deadline for renewing their lease. Always the opportunist, Vail Resorts swooped in and snatched it from their grasp. A shocking turn of events to say the least. Somewhere, someone at PCMR […] Andy Hays | June 24, 2014 1 Comment
Judge Grants EVICTION of Park City by Talisker | Game Over. At the end of a hearing over the Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) eviction issue in Silver Summit’s 3rd District Court on Thursday, Judge Ryan Harris granted a requested by Talisker Land Holdings to evict PCMR. Talisker will legally able to evict PCMR on August 27th, 2014 if the judge signs the papers that day. PCMR has fought this whole thing toot and nail and they have lost. Goodbye PCMR, hello Vail. Talisker has chosen Vail Resorts to take over the lease once PCMR has been evicted. PCMR […] Industry News Miles Clark | June 20, 2014 7 Comments
Will Vail Combine Park City Ski Resort & The Canyons to Make Biggest Ski Resort in USA? Quick Update: Vail Resorts just acquired Park City ski resort by suing Park City ski resort for Talisker, the owner of the land that Park City operates on. Park City did a silly thing and let their super cheap lease expire and Vail dropped in hard. So, Vail will now be running Park City ski resort. Since Vail took over, Wall Street has approved the maneuver and thinks that Vail will combine two adjacent […] Industry News SnowBrains | June 6, 2014 6 Comments
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