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Vail Resorts Makes Surprise Offer to Buy Park City

The latest news in ongoing wranglings between Vail Resorts and PCMR, Vail Resorts has offered to buy Park City Resort’s base facilities. The offer comes in the form of a 5-page letter from Vail CEO Rob Katz, who says that Vail Resorts will buy Park City’s holdings for what he described as “…a fair price for both for both parties…” This is just the latest in a disagreement between Vail Resorts and PCMR […]
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CA Ski Resorts Are Struggling Financially | Will They Get Bought Out By Vail?

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California ski resorts are struggling to make ends meet right now. They’ve been struggling to make ends meet for the past 3 winters. In 2011/12 Tahoe received 80% of average snowfall. In 2012/13, Tahoe received 50% of average snowfall. Thus far in 2013/14, Tahoe has received less than 40% of average snowfall. These low snowfall numbers have translated into very low skier visits and very low revenue for California ski resorts (Mammoth […]
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East Vail Chutes Avy Victim, Tony Siebert, Tribute Video 2.0

24-year-old Tony Siebert died in an avalanche in the East Vail Chutes on January 7th, 2014. Tony was the grandson of Vail founder Peter Seibert. He will be greatly missed. This is a tribute video to Tony. Tony was a ripper. This video proves it. I had the opportunity to hang out and film with Tony Seibert in the Vail backcountry a few years back. His spirited charisma and hunger for life is something that I will always remember. This is what was captured from that day… – Dave Phelps […]
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Win an Epic Pass for Life… The Epic Race | 26 Resorts, 4 Countries, 1 Season

The Epic Race from Vail Resorts spans 26 unique resorts, across 4 countries, 2 continents, and has to be done in one season. Pretty intriguing right? The basic idea of the Epic Race is as follows, participants have to visit and ski all 26 resorts that vail owns in one season, and the first 10 to do so win Epic Passes for life. Along with the grand prize there will be random prizes from sponsors thrown in available to all participants. Sounds pretty cool if you ask me, and with 26 resorts spread […]
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Kirkwood Worship with Josh Daiek = Kirkwood’s 1st Poster Boy

Josh Daiek is officially Kirkwood’s first ever poster boy. Kirkwood has had some great skiers over the year including Glen Plake and Craig Garbiel, but Kirkwood never supported them like they are doing with Josh. The reality is that it really isn’t Kirkwood persay, but Vail (they bought Kirkwood a bit back) who’s using Josh as the poster boy. Josh deserves it. He was on the full 2013 Freeride […]
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