Kimberly Adams

Okay.

The cost of a ski trip in the U.S.

has really shot up over the past decade.

What are you seeing driving prices?

If you could explain this past system a little bit more, because I actually did run into a lot of people talking about this, and I'm a very beginner when it comes to snow sports, and I

you know, was surprised at the cost of like the tickets to do it and the rental gear and everything like that.

But folks were complaining also that the passes, even if they may save you a little bit of money as a regular skier, it's contributed to, they were complaining about crowding on the slopes and you can't really determine the conditions.

How do these pass systems work?

I want to get back to these conglomerates in a bit, but if you could zoom out a bit for me, why does what's happening in the ski and snow sports industry matter to the broader economy?

And was it closing just from lack of snow, lack of business?

What was happening?

How common is that?

Because I heard from some of the more, you know, avid skiers on the Marketplace team who were talking to me ahead of this trip that, you know, out west here in the United States, a lot of the traditional ski places just didn't get snow this year.

And I'm wondering, especially with, you know, the changes coming to the planet with climate change, how common is that?

Yikes.

Alright, we are going to take a quick break, but we are going to be right back with more.

All right.

We are back with Professor Daniel Scott.

I want to get more into what we talked about at the top of the show about consolidation in the industry.

You know, you were just talking about climate change and all the rising costs associated with climate change, which I imagine it's easier for these bigger conglomerates to kind of either absorb or react to.