Fascists?, Communists?, Socialists?... and I thought we were worried about wannabe Authoritarian Oligarchs... glad we're being apolitical.
Mount Snow's good relations over the years were largely the product of an experienced manager (Kelly) who loved the job & the mountain and 'got it'. Walt the founder and Preston Smith 'got it' too, so there is a tradition. The new manager did a nice interview and knows she needs some time to learn the ropes. She has made the effort to start communications up, a good sign.
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On another note the overwhelming response to the new reservation system leaves Vail with a PR nightmare. They can try to scale up their computer processing capacity real quickly, spend a bunch of money to have someone else do some or all of it or start trimming the times/places requiring reservations. Assuming the Point of Sales (retail, rentals & food), RFID access processing and other tasks are all integrated things are not going to get better without some effort and a bunch of $$$.
Probably the easiest & quickest way to shed volume is to reduce non-essential reservation traffic, which Vail has suggested they might do after a little experience. Most weekday reservations (except holidays) look like easy targets.
Example; every regular morning weekday skier at Crotched will fit on one chair (2 chairs now). With school & racing traffic down we may have "corduroy 'til closing", lots of free parking and plenty of space for social distancing. Take out the reservations; do some minimal medical checks and skiing will feel 'normal' and safe for a lot of folks. Working from 'home' was never so good.
