Who
Three members of Greek Peak, New York’s leadership team:
Wes Kryger, President
Ayden Wilber, Vice President of Mountain Operations
Jarret Dulemba, Mountain Operations Manager
Date Recorded
Oct. 19, 2026
About Greek Peak
Owned by: John Meier
Located in: Cortland, New York
Year founded: 1957 – opened Jan. 11, 1958
Pass affiliations: Indy Pass, Indy+ Pass – 2 days
Base elevation: 1,148 feet
Summit elevation: 2,100 feet
Vertical drop: 952 feet
Skiable acres: 300
Average annual snowfall: 120 inches
Lift count: 8 (1 fixed-grip quad, 2 triples, 3 doubles – view Lift Blog’s inventory of Greek Peak’s lift fleet)
Why I interviewed them
In March, Greek Peak hit the fast-forward button on a massive snowmaking upgrade. In a single offseason, the resort would lay 33,000 feet of snowmaking pipe and install 250 HKD semi-automated snowguns. Ski area officials had originally planned to spread the work over four years, but an expiring clean-energy credit from local power supplier National Grid accelerated the work.
The $3 million project extended snowmaking nearly wall-to-wall at a long underserved ski area. While Greek Peak can benefit from Lake Erie lake-effect storms, whole tracts on the east side of the mountain would sit shuttered in lean years. No more. Among the trails outfitted with snowmaking over the summer, per Greek Peak’s announcement:
I’ve always thought that Greek Peak, with its gladed acres and affordable onsite lodging and thousand vertical feet and lack of liftlines, was an underappreciated alternative to the Catskills and Poconos circus scenes. But these snowmaking upgrades were badly needed.
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A sadder development over the summer: Al Kryger, who helped build Greek Peak, passed away in August at age 87:
Greek Peak President Wes Kryger, Al’s son, had talked a bit about his father on the podcast last year:
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Ayden Wilber is identified below as “bbaisley”
Stuart Winchester: My guests today lead Greek Peak Mountain Resort in New York. Greek Peak has six chairlifts serving 300 acres on 950 vertical feet.
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Stuart Winchester: Wes Krieger is president of the resort since 2013, and he is a member of the Ski New York Hall of Fame. His family has been part of Greek Peak since the ski area’s 1958 founding.
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Stuart Winchester: Aiden Wilbur has been vice president of mountain operations since 2019 and has worked at Greek Peak since 2013 and making his storm skiing podcast debut as Jarrett Dulamba. He has been Mountain Ops manager for the past five years. Wes and Aiden, welcome back to the storm. Jarrett, welcome to the storm for the first time. Always love catching up with the team at Greek Peak.
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Stuart Winchester: How you guys doing today?
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WKryger: Good, Stuart, how are you?
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Stuart Winchester: Doing real well, thank you. So, Wes, I want to start with your father, Al.
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Stuart Winchester: who passed away last year, and had a tremendous legacy with…
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Stuart Winchester: Greek Peak with New York skiing, uh, with the community, uh, big personality, and we talked about some of his specific contributions when you joined me on the podcast, uh, last year. So, I wanted to give you an opportunity to reflect.
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Stuart Winchester: on Al’s legacy and what he meant to the resort and what he meant to you as we reflect on his passing?
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WKryger: Yeah, I appreciate that. He, you know, he started with Greek Peak in 1958.
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WKryger: you know, he was instrumental in the State of New York with some of the other operators, Dennis Shashbaugh, Danny Fuller, bunch of the guys, Russ Colton from Hunter, and they all started the.
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WKryger: saney ski areas of New York organization to help regulate the the industry, and they were instrumental in getting the Article 18.
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Stuart Winchester: Hmm.
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WKryger: passed, which is, you know, skiers and ski area responsibility code which has been very helpful in the industry and and copied pretty much across the Us. As as a.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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WKryger: regulatory guideline for skiers in ski areas. So that that was a huge contribution to the industry. And.
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WKryger: you know, Al always wanted to, um, see the ski area expand, and then he got it into the four-season aspect with.
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WKryger: Building Hope Lake Lodge, an indoor water park in the Adventure Center with the zip lines and mountain coaster. So he definitely was an entrepreneur and.
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WKryger: We always joke about if you told him it couldn’t be done, that was exactly what he would try to do, and he was successful most of the time.
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WKryger: For me, he was a great leader for me, a great dad, taught me a great work ethic. I told this story at his celebration of life. I was going to college.
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WKryger: working at Greek Peak full-time, and I was the night mountain manager here, and, uh, living at home. I got home, uh, he asked me if all the snow guns had been started up.
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WKryger: and I said there were 4 more to go, and he threw my boots and me outside and told me not to come back until the last one was running.
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WKryger: So he definitely instilled the work ethic, you know, in the community, obviously had a great impact at his celebrational life. There were over 400 attendees that came to the resort to.
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WKryger: pay their respects. So I think definitely had a huge impact.
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Stuart Winchester: So, the interesting thing about these multi-generational ski resorts, and in 2013, your family made the decision to sell to John Meyer, a local businessman, and you obviously stayed involved, and if folks want to hear that story, they can listen to the last Greek Peak episode that we recorded.
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Stuart Winchester: Last year, but I’m always curious with these, Wes, as you grew up at the ski area, right, and you evolved from Rugrat running around the slopes to a guy getting thrown out of the house because you’re not doing it right, to the guy leading the resort, I’m curious how your relationship with your father.
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Stuart Winchester: evolved, and… and how he…
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Stuart Winchester: guided you and… and influenced you as you grew in your role at the resort, and… and grew as a man and an adult, and… and someone who…
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Stuart Winchester: You know, he really couldn’t throw around anymore or throw out of the house.
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WKryger: Well, I think he, you know, he definitely instilled a good work ethic. And he also.
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WKryger: wanted to make sure that you had fun, that it was something you enjoyed doing. You know I also had horses, and was big into horse training and.
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WKryger: Did that and.
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WKryger: You know, he kind of guided me. He didn’t tell me I had to go one way or the other, but gave me the opportunities and, uh, as long as I worked hard, um, you know, he helped me move forward and a lot of times.
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WKryger: The people feel like working for family is easier, but in Al’s case, he expected more out of you than he did your counterparts that were working right next to you. So you always had to work harder.
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WKryger: To prove to him that you were worthy of where he was guiding you, so.
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Stuart Winchester: So, how hard was it for Al to step away? I… you know, the family ski areas can be quirky, and I always think about John Schaefer, who runs Berkshire East over in Massachusetts, and his father, Roy, fixed the place up starting in the 1970s, and, you know, John.
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Stuart Winchester: runs it, but he still says he’s below Roy, who still runs the parking lot into his 80s. Did Al ever truly step away, or was he always kind of hovering around the resort? What kind of retirement did Al have if he had one?
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WKryger: Well, his house was right across from the mountain, so he could see from his living room pretty much everything that was going on at the area. So even when he wasn’t working here on a day to day basis.
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WKryger: He would call me just about daily and ask me, you know, what the heck’s going on on the Odyssey Trail, or why haven’t you groomed the Iliad yet, or… so he definitely kept his eye on us, uh, over the…
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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Stuart Winchester: Damn.
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WKryger: 1st couple of years of his retirement, and then he actually moved to a different location down in the town of Virgil, where he he couldn’t see. But when I would go down and visit him, I certainly got grilled a fair amount about what was going on.
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Stuart Winchester: Okay.
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WKryger: at the area.
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Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm. Did he figure out the webcams?
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WKryger: Yeah, yeah, he did. He did.
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Stuart Winchester: Uh, Jared and Aiden, and Aiden’s, uh, screen says Bea Baisley, uh, because he’s using someone’s machine, but, uh, just so the viewers know who’s talking, I’m not sure if you had a lot of interaction with Al, or if you have any memories of Al, uh, as a… as a personality. I know you’ve…
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Stuart Winchester: You’re newer to the resort, relatively speaking, but wanted to give you the opportunity to share if you had any.
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bbaisley: Yeah, my first year actually was still when Al owned the place back in 2012. And I can’t say enough great things about him and his wife, Gail. They were great to everybody. I started in public space at the hotel.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.
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bbaisley: cleaning rooms and didn’t matter who you were, they were gracious and people you could easily talk to.
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Stuart Winchester: Jared, I know you’ve only been there five years. And did you just any just thoughts on the legacy?
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bbaisley: I don’t know.
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Jarrett Dulemba: Uh, definitely a legacy to be had for Al. Um, never got to work with him, but would always see him around. He would always ask, what’s going on? Where are you guys at with this project? And stuff like that. Uh, always a supporter of what we were doing.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah, so. Yeah.
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Stuart Winchester: All right, so thank you all for sharing that, really appreciate that. Very sorry for your loss, but a lot to celebrate about a life like that, and a life well lived, and a lot of things we didn’t cover, because his legacy certainly went well beyond the ski area.
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Stuart Winchester: So, let’s turn to the big project you have going on this year, and I’m gonna…
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Stuart Winchester: Share my screen for those watching on.
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Stuart Winchester: YouTube is Storm Ski Journal on stormskiing.com, because when I, when I read this off, I’m gonna say some trail names, and this’ll make sense if I have them up. So, just wanna read your press release. You have a huge snowmaking investment going in, and this is from March. So, Greek Peak Mountain Resort is proud to announce a transformative $3 million capital investment plan that will continue to modernize and expand.
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Stuart Winchester: its snowmaking capabilities and infrastructure on the mountain. The project for Greek Peak East will launch immediately upon the current season’s conclusion, with an ambitious rollout targeted for the start of 2026-27. The project will include the installation of 250 new HKD semi-automated snow guns.
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Stuart Winchester: Significantly increasing the resort’s ability to produce high quality snow efficiently across the mountain. In addition, Greek Peak will install a new 450 horsepower water pump, boosting total water capacity by approximately 20%. As part of the expansion, crews will install 33,000 feet of new snow making pipeline.
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Stuart Winchester: allowing snowmaking coverage to expand to several additional trails on the east side of the mountain, including Arcadian Gate, Lower Arcadian Gate, Christian Way, Arethus… I can’t pronounce these Greek names… Arethus Way, Mars Hill Connection, Upper Mars Hill, Marathon, Upper Pollux.
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Stuart Winchester: Olympian, and Alpha, so you can see the trails mostly concentrated over here. So, Aiden, let’s start with you. This was supposed to be a four-year timeline.
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Stuart Winchester: And they said, we’re doing it in one summer. Or did you say, we’re doing it in one summer? Take us into this decision.
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Stuart Winchester: How you reacted, and how you got it done.
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Stuart Winchester: Or if you did, I know we’re making an assumption there.
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WKryger: Okay.
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bbaisley: Yeah, we actually just had our inspection last week, and we basically have all the boxes checked off, you know, a few little housekeeping projects to get ready for making snow, but for all intents and purposes, we’re done.
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bbaisley: Yeah, this project was slated to be done over four years. There was some funding opportunity through National Grid.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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bbaisley: Uh, that had a sunset clause on it at the end of this year, and it really was about energy efficiency and trying to take some load off of the grid.
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bbaisley: So, you know, in getting with ownership and Wes and the mountain team, Jarrett and his team, we all kind of were talking, you know, is this even a feasibly objective to pull off in one season?
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bbaisley: Um, I think there was some doubts. Uh, we put together a calendar that kind of made sense, and uh, you know, we went for it to make sure that we could get it in with this program, and uh…
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bbaisley: it was a struggle. Jarrett and his team did a great job, but uh… ultimately, everybody came together and pulled it off.
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Stuart Winchester: Gerald gets you in a moment and the effort behind it. But Aiden, it’s interesting you say…
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Stuart Winchester: They want to take…
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Stuart Winchester: some load off the grid, because it’s a significant expansion, right? So…
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Stuart Winchester: are you… are the new machines allowing you to make more snow with less guns, or are some of them replacing legacy machines, or is it all new? Take us into that a little bit.
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bbaisley: Yeah, it’s really the big thing is we retired a lot of legacy equipment around the hill and in talking with, you know, the utility companies, if we were to try and make snow on this new terrain with some of the older equipment that we had.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah.
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bbaisley: It’s just night and day, the power usage with modern snowmaking equipment.
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bbaisley: projected this total project, even with making the whole mountain. If we were to do that with the older equipment we’d be consuming somewhere around 7 million more kilowatt hours per year. So that was really the objective was to to lighten the load on existing terrain, but also prevent future load on on trails we wanted to go to.
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Stuart Winchester: That’s incredible. It’s amazing what the newer technology can do, and I know the guns are only part of it. What else did you have to do infrastructure-wise? Because this is, you know, this trail map very much simplifies it.
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Stuart Winchester: kind of confusing and big and sprawling, and… and it really feels much bigger than it looks on this trail map when you’re skiing there. So… so just talk about… and, you know, this was the area that’s really long. I… so talk about just what else you needed besides the guns when we’re talking about an upgrade of that size.
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bbaisley: One.
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bbaisley: You know, the biggest thing with modern snowmaking, the reason it’s so much more energy efficient is it relies on high pressure water. So over the last, you know, four or five years with the upgrades we’ve done has all been leading up to this culmination where we’ve gotten larger horsepower pumps to increase our water pressure.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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bbaisley: Because it, uh, exponentially reduces the amount of error that’s required, uh, to make snow, and that’s really where the power savings comes in.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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bbaisley: Uh The other thing was the 33,000 ft of pipe. A lot of it was increasing the diameter of it. So there’s less water restriction moving it around the hill. Uh We put in a ton of new uh valve stations so we can control water where we need it to go and, and not waste energy.
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Stuart Winchester: So, so Jarrett, let’s talk about the effort here getting this thing in, because, uh, you know, these are, this is great terrain over here and, and it’s, it’s really long and it’s good novice terrain. And, and I believe that a lot of the snow making is concentrated.
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Stuart Winchester: over here. Again, it’s a really long trail. When you ski down, you really feel like you’re making a journey. Talk about…
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Stuart Winchester: the effort that it took, uh, and how you pulled it off. And also, I’m curious, does Greek Peak take its seasonal guys and flip them, or is it a different skill set, and you had to hire contractors? Just take us through how you got it done, and how in-house it was, and how much you had to rely on.
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Stuart Winchester: other businesses in the community.
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Jarrett Dulemba: Yeah, absolutely. So we did this project all in-house, used our in-house welders, uh, recruited some of our snowmakers that just work seasonally, and they helped out.
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Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.
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Jarrett Dulemba: Throughout the summer, that was the main goal was how can we do this in-house without adding that cost? So we were able to get it done, which was a little nerve-wracking at first when we laid it all out. Like Aiden said, there were some doubts, but we were able to do it.
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Stuart Winchester: Any hiccups along the way? You know, it was a Thunder Ridge, which is obviously not in your neighborhood, but still a New York ski area, really got hammered by some rainstorms and suffered significant damage. And that’s just one example. These sorts of things happen every summer at some ski area or another.
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Stuart Winchester: Uh, any… any big…
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Stuart Winchester: Mother Nature events that you had to navigate over the course of this summer, or other obstacles, whether it was, you know, equipment not showing up, or pieces not showing up.
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WKryger: Thank you.
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Jarrett Dulemba: Uh, Mother Nature cooperated. Um, two past summers ago, back-to-back years, we had a tornado touchdown, uh, caused a lot of tree damage. Luckily, we did not experience that this year, so we were able to keep our efforts moving on the snowmaking project.
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Stuart Winchester: Umm.
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Jarrett Dulemba: Uh, we did run into some equipment issue here and there, but luckily, we were able to get a rental while ours got fixed, and we got right back to it.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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Stuart Winchester: So let’s take us into this a little bit because I’ve seen…
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Stuart Winchester: snowmaking installations in sort of various states, right? If you go there in the summer, you might see the trenches dug into the hill, but that all goes away in the winter, and you don’t see it anymore. So, what can you tell us, Jared, just about.
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Stuart Winchester: The process of digging these very long trenches, you know, uh, keeping them, sort of.
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Stuart Winchester: clear, so you can put the pipe in, imagine that takes multiple days, and then recovering that so that you’re not messing with the trail, right? Because it needs to be flat if you’re going down on a ski trail, which most of this, I’m assuming, is, but maybe not.
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Stuart Winchester: So just take us through the process and, you know, how…
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Stuart Winchester: How your team, like, what your process is for the team?
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Jarrett Dulemba: Absolutely. So, Arcadian Gate, for example, is over a mile long, so that trail, we kind of broke into sections. We would get a certain amount of feet of pipe in the trail.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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Jarrett Dulemba: Pressure test it backfill in between our hydrant locations. Then we’d go back through, do an install, add more guns to it, add a section of pipe pressure test again, kind of doing that so we didn’t get too far ahead of ourselves so we could stay on top of it.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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Jarrett Dulemba: button up one trail at a time, and then go back through seed, hay, and grass is already growing on all the terrain.
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Stuart Winchester: Is there part of that that’s fun, like the digging and the making? Or is it tedious because it’s repetitive? How do you feel when you’re out there? You’re just in it?
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Jarrett Dulemba: Yeah, I think you’re just in it, you know. Big part of this was none of us has seen snow making over on the east side. So there’s definitely a big excitement. Part of that was, hey? We’re the 1st ones to put snow making in over here. It’s gonna be awesome this winter can’t wait to ski it more than 5 times a year that we do on natural snow. So.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah.
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Stuart Winchester: Wes, we talked on the last pot, I believe your dad had a lot to do with this expansion out here. How cool is it for you to see snowmaking over on this side of the mountain, finally?
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WKryger: I think it’s, you know, awesome that it is one of the favorite trails at the mountain because it is so long and kind of a easier intermediate type of trail. So we get a lot of great comments about.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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WKryger: you know, the terrain, but because it was all natural snow, it wasn’t open nearly as much as we would have liked it to be, so I think with the addition of snowmaking over there, it will certainly be open a lot more than it was, and I think we’ll.
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WKryger: add to more guest comments about when are you going to add lighting? When are you going to have the east side open at night? You’re going to have to have a food facility at the bottom. And so it’s just the beginning of more.
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WKryger: More expansions.
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Stuart Winchester: Well, yeah, that was going to be my next question. So what can you tell us? Do you plan to put in lights? Do you plan to put in a facility or just considering everything?
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WKryger: I think we’re just considering everything and see how, you know, how it goes. Obviously, we anticipate the addition of the snowmaking will have a huge impact. And then, you know, depending on how that.
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WKryger: Affects our numbers, we’ll…
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WKryger: add lighting and more facilities over there if the customers warrant that.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah, this is a nice little hack for parking, if this lift is running, because then you don’t have to… I mean, this is actually not far from the lifts here either, but it’s just busy, right? So, uh, so this is… I’m not telling you anything you don’t know, but for the listeners. And so, are you at 100% snowmaking now?
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WKryger: Yep.
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WKryger: Yep.
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WKryger: Um, no, we’re… we’re close, but, um, I forget the number you guys, Jarrett and Aiden, came up with. It’s, like, 90-some percent now.
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Stuart Winchester: Okay.
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Stuart Winchester: Which trails are still lacking snowmaking?
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bbaisley: Lower Atlas and, uh, half of Epicurus. Other than that, we’re there. We’re actually gonna try and make the entire Epicurus trail this year, so theoretically, it’s just Lower Atlas.
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Stuart Winchester: Okay.
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Stuart Winchester: Okay.
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Stuart Winchester: All right.
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Stuart Winchester: Oh, wow. And is Lower Atlas on your list for the future?
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bbaisley: Well, we did stub out a T there when we did Castor, was that two years ago? So we’re ready for it as soon as we get the funds approved.
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Stuart Winchester: Okay.
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Stuart Winchester: So you’re almost to 100% snowmaking. How much of that is modern? So I guess my question is, what’s next in snowmaking, right? Are you done? Are you gonna take a breather for a few years? I think…
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Stuart Winchester: kind of have to invest in it every single year in New York, but… but not always as much as you are this year. So… so how far along are you on modernization, and… and what’s next?
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Stuart Winchester: Umm for snowmaking.
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bbaisley: I would say we’re pretty much the whole mountain is modern now. We’ve pretty much retired our entire old fleet of snowmaking.
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bbaisley: I think maybe one might get taken out for nostalgia here and there, but.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah.
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bbaisley: Um, you know, I think we’ll probably slow down on the snowmaking. There’s a lot of other things to invest in in a ski resort, and I know that’s a concentration of ownership and Wes’s, but I think we’ll continue to look to slowly add more semi-automated hydrants around the hill.
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bbaisley: Those are your biggest bang for your buck for us at the moment as far as increasing our efficiency. And once the hill’s fully semi-automated, I think you could consider full automation.
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bbaisley: There’s really not as much to pick up there as going semi automated.
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Stuart Winchester: Alright, so now that you shift to… as you said, there’s a lot of other priorities. I asked you about lifts a lot last pod, so I won’t go through them exhaustively. That podcast was about a year and a half ago. So, just looking at the trail map here, any changes in your thinking about the future of the lift fleet, or.
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Stuart Winchester: Or is it still pretty much, uh, status quo is good, you’re keeping them up, maintaining them?
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WKryger: Well, I think the lifts, you know, I’ve always said it really isn’t whether it’s new or not, it’s what your maintenance program is and how well you take care of them.
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WKryger: We did replace the drive system on our older Savio lift. The drive system and all the safety switches have been replaced. So we try to stay on top of all of the maintenance.
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WKryger: You know, I think down the road, depending on volume of skiers, we have talked about potential lift changes in the future.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah, this is… I’m just showing Lift Log’s pictures of that Carl LaVaro Savario lift. It’s so cool, and it’s a really old lift, but I just love riding it. It’s so nostalgic. You still have the wood slats, and Killington actually retired some Carl LaVaro… I’m not saying it right.
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Stuart Winchester: that brand of lifts recently from Pico. Were you able to get some parts from them?
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WKryger: We have talked to them. At the moment, we’re not in need of anything that they had at the time, but we’re definitely gonna stay in touch with them.
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Stuart Winchester: Okay.
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Stuart Winchester: Uh, so, so you mentioned there, there may be other lifts, Wes, and anything you have in mind for, for future upgrades or replacements?
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WKryger: Oh, there’s been conversations about upgrading lift 4, because that basically leads to the east side of the hill.
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Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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WKryger: So that would probably be one of our higher priority lifts to take a look at. Every time we talk about lift two, the Savio lift, we get some of the same comments that you just made.
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WKryger: That, you know, people love the old, old lift, and the terrain that it goes on, and, you know, that, uh…
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WKryger: there’s a certain nostalgia behind that lift. So you know, from a volume standpoint doesn’t really have a huge impact on the mountain where chair 4 potentially does have an impact from.
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WKryger: feeding the east side in that Arcadian Gate trail.
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Stuart Winchester: So this is a 1970 Hall double right here. What would you like to see there?
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WKryger: Well, the wish list would be to move the quad, the vision’s quad.
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bbaisley: Thank you.
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bbaisley: Okay.
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WKryger: to where chair four is.
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WKryger: and then potentially look at a higher volume lift where Visions is, but I don’t see that in the very near future, but it is on the list.
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Stuart Winchester: Okay.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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Stuart Winchester: So when you say higher volume, is that a scenario where maybe you put in a six pack and take out one and one A and just have one high capacity lift that serves this peak?
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WKryger: Well, something along that line, I mean, I think.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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WKryger: you know, a six-pack, potentially. Uh, I’m not sure that we would get rid of Lift 1. When we put the Visions lift in, they told us we could get rid of Lift 1, but as I mentioned in my lift comments, sometimes we have more issues with the new lifts than we do the old lifts.
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WKryger: So Lift One has bailed us out a couple of times when we’ve had some issues with Divisions Lift. So I don’t see Lift One going away anytime soon. But, you know, potentially, again, because Visions is our main.
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WKryger: Lift to get the volume up the hill. I think certainly the the trails and the terrain can handle more volume.
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Stuart Winchester: Do you like the line of lift four? ‘cause right now it’s a little, little tricky to get to if until you know what you’re doing. You either come off lift three and come down or you have to come right here. But it’s kind of hidden, uh, which is fun. And, and again, one of the things I like about Greek Peak is that it’s, I get confused there and I always think that.
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Stuart Winchester: Uh, but do you like the line it’s on? Would you like to bring the bottom, the load, to a different place? I know there’s a hill here. So, any thoughts there?
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WKryger: No, you know, I think we like the line that it’s on. We could go a little further up the hill than it currently goes, which might make some additional terrain accessible.
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WKryger: from it. So if we were to replace it, we’d probably make it a little longer on the top. It is kind of unique, because it sits down in a in a hole, which you know, if your lift is.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmm.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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WKryger: taking the capacity up the hill fast enough doesn’t create a problem. But we do have a couple of days a year that that hole gets pretty packed.
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Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm. So as you upgrade the mountain and improve it, and hopefully that leads to increases in skier visits, last time, Wes, we had talked about some potential expansions, kind of off in this area. Again, this is just a… it’s a…
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Stuart Winchester: artistic map, so it’s not a real world, but there’s plenty of terrain around that you could expand into. Could this be seen as potentially, now that you have snowmaking over here, a gateway into that expansion, finally, that you’ve thought about for so long?
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WKryger: Yeah, I think potentially, uh…
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Stuart Winchester: All right, let’s talk about passes. Uh, you’ve been on the Indy Pass since day one, 2019. Uh, we are seeing increased competition in the multi-mountain pass market. Uh, the Snow Pass, for example, has launched from Snow Operating, and I, I know that you use their Snow Cloud operating system and.
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Stuart Winchester: And I believe are happy with that. But you’re on the Indy Pass, and they don’t play nice, so you can either be on Indy or Snow Pass. Obviously, there’s also Epic and Icon out there bouncing around, as well as Mountain Collective, which is just Whiteface in New York State.
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Stuart Winchester: Just thoughts on, uh, on the Indy Pass and the current state of multi-mountain passes, and… and it… whether…
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Stuart Winchester: That landscape, that product has been impactful for Greek Peak.
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WKryger: Well, I you know, we’ve been on the Indy Pass way back. I met Doug Fish at one of the national conferences in San Diego, I think it was, or and we were one of the original people to sign up, and.
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WKryger: over the years. It is certainly treated as well as an independent ski area. We do well with the Indy Pass. I think it introduces skiers to Greek Peak that would not have normally.
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WKryger: come to Grigg Peak. So you know again, we’re happy with it. I do think that the evolution of all the different types of passes is going to change over the years as much as Indy wants to.
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WKryger: keep it, you know, so that they don’t play nice with everybody. Sooner or later, I think that will have to change. But for the time being, they certainly.
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WKryger: treat us well, we get along with them. Um, it is financially beneficial for us. Um, and, you know, all of these passes, um.
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WKryger: the other passes have some downsides to them. You know, one of my big concerns with any of the pass options is when it gets to the point that it’s starting to steal.
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WKryger: your own pass holders, that’s when it’s a problem.
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WKryger: And I’ve been pretty clear to Indy that if they put too many mountains surrounding Greek Peak in the program.
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WKryger: will be out, because then it, you know, probably makes more sense for an individual to buy an Indy pass than a Greek peak pass, and if it ever comes to that point, then we would not participate.
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WKryger: But Indy has been very good about talking to me and getting my opinion on whether a certain mountain should be part of it or not.
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WKryger: because I’ve been pretty clear to them that if they get too many close to me, I’m gonna be out. So.
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Stuart Winchester: How about the add on pass? I would imagine your pass holders like the add on because it gets them two days at J Peak and now Smuggler’s Notch and a whole bunch of places up in New England and upstate New York, like Snow Ridge, it gets a ton of snow. I’m not sure if you see this data, but.
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Stuart Winchester: As you talk to your pass holders, is that something that they’ve been taking advantage of?
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WKryger: I think some of them do. You know, I don’t think it’s a I don’t have the the data, but I don’t think it’s a huge amount. I have gotten some feedback that the employee in the pass has been.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Yeah.
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WKryger: pretty popular with our employees. So you know, I I do think it’s a benefit that that our pass holders get the thing that interested me from the beginning was just introducing.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah.
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WKryger: people that wouldn’t normally come to Greek Peak to Greek Peak, and and actually, a couple of years ago, rode up Lift 4 with a family that was here on the Indy Pass, and they had stayed at Hope Lake Lodge, and they had never been to.
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Stuart Winchester: Down.
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WKryger: Greek peak before, and they thought it was awesome, and that was the whole point.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah, you know I’m uh…
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Stuart Winchester: a big Greek Peak supporter, and I think it’s underappreciated as…
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Stuart Winchester: a… a fun destination. My family spends every MLK weekend there, just because it’s…
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Stuart Winchester: You still don’t get the lift lines. There’s lots of terrain. You know, it’s usually, usually those natural snow trails have been open and you can ride a shuttle across the street from the resort. So it’s, it’s a really fun place, but I think it’s only gonna get better with all the improvements you’re making. One of the best improvements I’ve thought.
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Stuart Winchester: over the past several years since John Meyer has bought it. It’s just been an explosion in glades, and it’s such a great, fun glade network, and obviously that’s reliant on natural snow. Uh, but… but Jarrett, can you tell us about…
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Stuart Winchester: How skiers can get involved in the Glades.
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Jarrett Dulemba: Yeah, so every year, it’s actually coming up this weekend on Saturday. We host our Glade Day, and that’s a way for locals to come on out, help us clean up the glades, and get them skiable for the winter.
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Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.
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Jarrett Dulemba: We’ve been doing it, I believe this is year five. They come on out, we give them a ride to the top on the lift. We’ll break up into teams, kinda…
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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Jarrett Dulemba: get an idea of where the glades are at prior, and how much people we need on each glade to clean it up, and then go from there. We give them lunch at the end of it, and a t-shirt, and it’s a great way for the community to get involved, kind of see what’s going on on the mountain.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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Jarrett Dulemba: And go from there.
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Stuart Winchester: What are you targeting this year? Is that still to be determined?
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Jarrett Dulemba: Uh, me and our patrol director, who ski patrol runs the Glade Cleanup Day, we went around the other day. Um, not too much expansion for this coming season, but we were looking at some new options over on the east side.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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Jarrett Dulemba: Um, there’s the Tower 14 on Mars Hill, right off the lift line. There’s a pretty good spot, it used to be an old logging road that has kind of gotten overgrown.
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Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.
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Jarrett Dulemba: Um, and that would kick you out onto lower Arcadian Gate.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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Jarrett Dulemba: So, it’s about a half mile long glade we’re looking at cutting, getting in there, cleaning it up. Some really challenging and technical terrain, but I think it would be a great addition.
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Jarrett Dulemba: And then the potential of extending also’s glade another 200 feet.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmm.
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Stuart Winchester: Okay, awesome. So give us the details. Would people just show up? Do they got to register? Just give us the time and place they should be. This podcast will air on Tuesday, October 20. So this, I believe, is Saturday.
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Jarrett Dulemba: Um, the…
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Jarrett Dulemba: Yep, it’s this Saturday, so, um, definitely stay in the loop on the website. You can sign up on the Greek Peak website for Glade Cleanup Day, and those that are coming out, it’s, uh, 8 AM at the Visions Lift.
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Stuart Winchester: Okay, awesome, awesome. Alright, you usually have a nice turnout for that.
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Jarrett Dulemba: Yeah, really good in like the 70s.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah.
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Stuart Winchester: Alright, last…
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Stuart Winchester: thing for you today. I really just want to get your reaction on the news last week that Toggenberg has been sold to a family that intends to reopen the ski area. Uh, and there’s a couple reasons I think this is relevant.
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Stuart Winchester: to the team here. Uh, one is, is that at one time, Greek Peak owned Toggenberg from 2015 to 2021, when, uh, John Myers sold it to Peter Harris, or Intermountain Management, who owns Song and Lab, and closed it. Again, saying this for the listeners, I know you already know all this.
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Stuart Winchester: And so I think you probably have some insight into…
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Stuart Winchester: the challenges of running TOG, and also it just brings a new competitor back into your market. So, so just curious, uh, general reaction to, uh, the, the news that Toggenberg.
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Stuart Winchester: is aiming to reopen for the 2027-28 ski season after being dormant since 2021.
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WKryger: Well, I was part of running Taugenberg when Greek Peak or John Meyer owned it. You know, I think it’s interesting news that the original landowners of Taugenberg are the ones that have purchased it back.
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WKryger: Umm, you know I I.
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WKryger: wish them the best. I think it is a huge undertaking, but I certainly know that there are a lot of.
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WKryger: people in that area that are loyal to Toggenberg, and I hope they are successful with getting it reopened.
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Stuart Winchester: What were some of the challenges or just nuances or quirks, Wes, of running Toggenberg?
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WKryger: Well, I think a lot of of this stuff.
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WKryger: you know it.
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WKryger: I know there always was a bit of a joke in the industry that it was a restaurant with a ski area on the side, because Jim Hickey was a big restaurant guy, and he did an awesome job at that.
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Stuart Winchester: Right.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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WKryger: the ski area.
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WKryger: didn’t get quite as much maintenance as it probably should have. So certainly that was one of the challenges was to get everything, you know, up to code. And I’ve not.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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WKryger: been there since it was sold to Peter Harris, but some of the things, some of the pictures and things I’ve seen is, you know, there’s an awful lot.
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WKryger: to rebuild. Peter had taken some of the equipment from TOG, so definitely feel it will be a bit of a challenge, but I certainly wish them the best, and I would be.
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WKryger: you know, happy to answer any questions that they have from when I ran it. But you know, nice little mountain reminded me of the old days of of Greek Peak before it turned into a 4 season when it was just a.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I think so.
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WKryger: seasonal ski areas, so there’s certainly some neat things about that.
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Stuart Winchester: You know, Wes, when you were talking about your father earlier, a lot of what he did was very collaborative and very outward looking and, and for the industry, for example, the, the Safety Act, the Responsibility Act, uh, the Ski Areas of New York, which I think is one of the best.
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Stuart Winchester: state associations, ski associations in the country.
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Stuart Winchester: so you… you grew up seeing that, and… and that’s sort of been the Greek peak philosophy, was to look outward, but they’re also competitors, so… so how do you balance that, because it is a new competitor coming into the market, or are you not concerned about that, because it’s just they have a different demographic that goes there? They’re just sort of between you and Syracuse off the… off the highway, for the listeners.
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WKryger: Well, I think they’re… you know, we’re not overly concerned, because originally, when, uh…
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WKryger: We purchased Toggenberg. It was to try to get the Syracuse market and introduce them to Greek Peak, which we did get some, and it was somewhat successful, but not to the degree that we had hoped.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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WKryger: And I think that, you know, Toggenberg has its own community as most ski areas do have their local loyal people that enjoy that mountain and that location.
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WKryger: you know, for that reason, uh, I wish them the best, and I don’t see them as a huge threat, because they’re a different product than we are.
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Stuart Winchester: Aiden, I’m not sure if you ever had any experience running TOG, or were you always just down at Greek?
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bbaisley: Yeah, I was up at TOG for two years, you know, kind of bouncing back and forth like Wes did.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah, any challenges, quirks, anything you remember about just the systems there, or the machinery, or the flow of the mountain?
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bbaisley: You know, it’s a great ski hill. I did work with Jim Hickey a lot. He was a great guy.
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Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.
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bbaisley: You know, again, like Wes said, it’s a different product. I think it’s a local community ski hill where people get together and they have that sense of community where Greek Peak is, if you’re looking for a little bit bigger of a ski experience, that’s what we have here.
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Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.
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bbaisley: Um, you know, I think they’re gonna struggle a bit with some outdated lifts and snowmaking equipment, and uh, you know, they can always reach out if there’s anything that they need help with, but uh, I hope the best for them, and they can get it up and running, because ultimately, the more skiers, the better it is for us and everyone in the country.
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bbaisley: that’s a big initiative by the National Ski Association right now, is how do we grow the ski community base in New York and across the country, so we need to kind of work together on that.
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Stuart Winchester: Yeah, it’s a really interesting story, and I actually spoke with James Wheeler this morning, and the reason I’m bumping the air date of this podcast to tomorrow is because I’m going to do the TOG one today, which I’ve already recorded. So, I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts on that and everything else. What an awesome.
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Stuart Winchester: evolution of Greek Peak. Really, really excited to see how that new snowmaking works out, and I think it’s really gonna open up your mountain and your audience, so to speak, in future years. So, congratulations on getting that done. I know it was a lot of work, and thank you all.
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Stuart Winchester: Uh, for joining us here today, and hopefully talk to you soon.
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bbaisley: Thank you.
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WKryger: Thanks, Stuart.
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Stuart Winchester: All right. Thanks, guys. Take care.
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Jarrett Dulemba: Thank you.
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WKryger: Yep.
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Stuart Winchester: No.
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Stuart Winchester: All right.
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Stuart Winchester: Bye. Thanks.
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Stuart Winchester: Okay.
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Stuart Winchester: All right. That was Team Greek Peak. Always glad to have them on.
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Stuart Winchester: As I said, I recorded this podcast right after I recorded the Toggenberg podcast, so no new reader reaction for you right now. Uh, let me just say that I’ll be back tomorrow with a podcast with.
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Stuart Winchester: Lee Canyon, Nevada, General Manager.
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Stuart Winchester: Josh Bean, and Lee Canyon is doing an expansion this year. A big one, not a tall one.
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Stuart Winchester: And we’ll get into that more tomorrow. And then Wednesday I’ll have Jackson Hogan, gear expert on formerly of Real Skiers, now master boot fitter still. And he will break down some gear questions for us, which obviously is something I don’t cover a lot.
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Stuart Winchester: So, Jackson’s my go-to for that. And Thursday, I’ll talk to the president of Powder Mountain in Utah.
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Stuart Winchester: Hold on for the intro.
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Stuart Winchester: Welcome to The Storm! I’m your host, Stuart Winchester. Today is Tuesday, October 20th, 2026. We are recording this episode on Monday, October 19th.
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Stuart Winchester: Today on The Storm, the team at Greek Peak New York takes us into their $3 million snowmaking expansion.
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Stuart Winchester: tells us what lift they would like to replace lift for, and reflects on the legacy of Al Krieger in sharing, in shaping their modern ski area.
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Stuart Winchester: I’ll rerecord that.
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Stuart Winchester: Welcome to The Storm. I’m your host, Stuart Winchester. Today is Tuesday, October 20th, 2026. Today on The Storm, the team at Greek Peak takes us into their $3 million snowmaking expansion that finally takes them almost to 100% snowmaking coverage.
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Stuart Winchester: They tell us what they would like to replace the congested lift for.
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Stuart Winchester: And they reflect on the legacy of Al Krieger in shaping the modern ski area.
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Stuart Winchester: All that today. It’s a great show. Let’s get right to it.
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Stuart Winchester: Team Greek, Pete!
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Stuart Winchester: All that today. Let’s get right to it. Here is Team Greek Peak.
