Daniel Scott

The other thing that they do provide is those passes are good at multiple resorts.

So perhaps multiple ski areas in Colorado and Vermont.

And so you can try out different places.

And if ski conditions perhaps at one aren't great, you can go to another and it gives you a bit of climate resilience as a skier in that respect.

So

But as you said, it does come with a price.

And those ski areas that are part of those passes, they don't have as much control over who comes to their ski area.

They have to let those Epic or Icon Pass users in.

And so some ski areas have started to sort of you have to pre-book your spot so that they know there's only X number of people on the hill in a given day or a given time.

So that you don't get into those crowding situations because that degrades the ski experience for everybody.

And that's something the skier is absolutely want to avoid.

But when you've got your local or your day passes coming up and you've got these multi resort passes coming in at the same time, you lose a bit of control over knowing who's coming when.

Well, for sure, particularly in the areas where you've got concentrations of ski areas, so Colorado, Vermont, New Hampshire, those areas, you know, it's a big part of the winter tourism economy.

But a big part of the tourism economy as a whole, you take away those winter tourism jobs, and it's harder to keep some of the people that you would have from an HR perspective through the summer jobs.

as well as all the small businesses.

So yes, people are skiing, but they're staying in hotels and resorts.

They're going to the restaurants and all the other entertainment.

So it's a big part of economies.

You know, the National Ski Areas Association puts numbers around it.

And it's a huge industry that keeps growing year over year.