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maureen's avatar

you had me fooled until the llama therapist- good one!

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Fred's avatar

Fantastic - totally had me and luaghed my arse off!

Zermatt compared to Utah or Colorado? Not even close!

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Damnatio Ad Bestias's avatar

Just came back from Europe. Zermatt. I'm done with North America.

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Steve Coonen's avatar

Stuart, all of your articles were hilarious. Thanks

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Ryan McCollum's avatar

Love it Stuart! Keep it up.

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Lorenzo LaRue's avatar

....So, only billionaires get to ski now, phk billionaires!....

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Stu's avatar

to ski vail and stand in those lines is an honor, damn the cost, lets ski we have those cards to use for tickets and beers,

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John Lyon's avatar

When I ski at vail I dont worry about what it costs. I use my equity line of credit. My last trip cost just above $25 K. Three days and one of those it rained. I bought three pairs of skis and quite foolishly left them at the bottom of the hill when I left.

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Helen Deane's avatar

april fools

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Doug's avatar

I laughed so hard I fell off my breakfast bench. But seriously, squirrel meat and a shotgun shell would never get you more than a 10 trip ticket for the T-Bar at Labrador Mt

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William Howard's avatar

Had me going also. Good job!!

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William Howard's avatar

Very good! My wife n i got married April 1st 1977 and went on our honeymoon with a college group from SoCal. 7 nights 6 days lifts, rnd trip airfare all transports n lodging for $225 ea. Been going strong fir 44 yrs. Thanx Vail for he memories. The year before same thing so we decided to tie the knot !! Thanx

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Super Mario's avatar

I'd love to see some more humorous skiing satire articles like this one! Although I'm embarrassed to admit just how far I got into the article before I realized it was satire... The state of skiing at Vail's flagship resorts, and Vail's business plans aren't very far off from this article!

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Briben biden's avatar

So vail will be out of the business in five years. Too bad so sad. Dont care.

Maybe some of the old family owned areas will make a come back.

That would be nice.

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Nowayjose's avatar

Vail will be fine. They own every mountain and their stock is on a meteoric rise

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Briben biden's avatar

They don't own mine and I am putting in two new lifts

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Lynn Gaines's avatar

OMG! You scared me to death. That isn’t funny! Lol. I was in shock and it worried me. My heart is just now slowing down.

I enjoyed all my skiing this year on Epic pass

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Gene's avatar

I got 90 days on a summit value pass 20/21 season you can keep your nine days Stephen Farnsworth III

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