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Vail's $1,000 Epic Pass is an exceptional consumer value trade
“Vail Resorts is basically saying for a thousand dollars a year, you can get access to 40 of the most beautiful mountains on earth. And get to me that, that value exchange is like such a great trade for the average consumer that it's has to be frustrating runni…”
Ski resort operations are a labor of love, not cash cows
“Even at this level of scale and owning the entire industry, I look at it and I say this is a business, this is a labor of love, right? This is not the business that you get into because you just care about Generating cash.”
Ski patrol strike in January 2025 caused massive Vail lift lines
“In January of 2025, they got in hot water after a ski patrol strike led to massive lines at lifts during the peak season.”
Vail Resorts' net income dropped from $370M in 2022 to $245M
“Twenty-twenty-two, they had three hundred and seventy million of net income. In twenty-twenty-three, they went down to two 85. And then in twenty-twenty-four, they had two 45, 2:46.”