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BobBitchen

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Vail Resorts Announces Plans for 2020/21 Ski and Snowboard Season with Comprehensive Focus on Safety

Season to Kick-Off on Nov. 6 at Keystone

BROOMFIELD, Colo. – Aug. 27, 2020 – This season, Vail Resorts’ unrivaled commitment to safety takes on more importance than ever amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz today announced the Company’s 2020/21 winter operating plan in a letter to guests, which outlines a comprehensive, out-front approach to operating its 34 North American resorts with the goal of ensuring a safe, enjoyable and successful ski and ride season.

“We are fortunate that our core experience of skiing and riding takes place outdoors, across huge mountains, offering fresh air and wide-open spaces for our guests. However, to help protect our guests, our employees and our communities amid this pandemic, some changes will be required this season,” said Katz. “It has been our goal to design an approach that can remain in place for all of the 2020/21 season. We do not want to be caught off guard or find ourselves needing to make reactionary changes. Striving for consistency will provide our guests, employees and communities with as much predictability as possible this season, which we believe is worth the extra effort.”

Key changes outlined in the plan include:
  • Guests will be required to wear face coverings to get on the mountain and in all parts of resort operations, including in lift lines and riding in lifts and gondolas.
  • To maintain physical distancing on our chairlifts and gondolas, we will only be seating related parties (guests skiing or riding together) or: two singles on opposite sides of a four-person lift; two singles or two doubles on opposite sides of a six-person lift; or two singles on opposite sides of our larger gondola cabins.
  • Ski and ride school will be offered and on-mountain dining will be open, but with changes to help keep guests safe.
  • Mountain access will be managed to ensure guests have the space they need. As such, the Company announced a mountain access reservation system and limits on lift tickets to prioritize its pass holders.

    “For the vast majority of days during the season, we believe everyone who wants to get on our mountains will be able to. However, we are not planning for the majority of days, we are planning for every day of the season,” said Katz. “We want to provide assurance to our guests that we will do our very best to minimize crowds at all times – be it a holiday weekend or the unpredictable powder day. We believe this approach will help ensure a safe experience for everyone, while prioritizing access for our pass holders.”
Full details on the pass holder reservation system can be found here. Pass holders receive:
  • Exclusive early season access (lift tickets will not go on sale until Dec. 8)
  • Access all season with week-of reservations
  • Priority Reservation Days to lock in days for the core season before lift tickets go on sale
  • Easy-to-use reservation system
To give guests more time to consider the changes, the Company’s Labor Day deadline has been extended to Sept. 17, including the deadline to use pass holder credits from last season.

Vail Resorts plans to kick off its North American ski and snowboard season with Keystone opening on Nov. 6, weather permitting. Scheduled opening dates for each of its resorts can be found here. The Company plans to open all terrain and lifts as soon as possible.

“There is no doubt this season will be different but we are committed to what matters most: working to protect our guests, employees and communities and doing everything we can to provide great skiing and riding all season long,” Katz concluded.
 
DarkWeb

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The changes are going to be huge. Was just talking with some friends about this yesterday. Pre-order food reserved spots to eat and change. Just imagine bag check.
 
BobBitchen

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DarkWeb said:
The changes are going to be huge. Was just talking with some friends about this yesterday. Pre-order food reserved spots to eat and change. Just imagine bag check.
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My worries are lift reservations, pass restrictions & longer lift lines.
I don't use the lodge other than to refill my water bottles. I bring my own food or eat off hill after skiing.
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Lockedin

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Wife & I just returned from a resort town. We noticed:

We had to meet our other party in different state to avoid 2 week quarantine mandates.

Mask Police Pt.1 - Every employee, everywhere we went would practically shout at anyone who forgot their mask... "SIR/MA'AM!!! You Need A Mask!"
Mask Police Pt.2 - ...Unless you are eating, drinking or smoking, then you can remove your mask.

Restaurants - most are take out only. In dine-in restaurants, you wear a mask to your table, then you may take it off, but the waiter / waitress must wear theirs.
Valets - wear masks while driving your car with the windows up.... (I didn't think of that until he was driving off. :wall: )
Activities - are mostly unaffected in that town. Some places take your temp, some don't.
Bars - all closed. Alcohol is purchased in liquor stores.
Dispensaries - Timing is key. I went early one day and had no wait; next day the line went out to the parking lot. (I went swimming with a cartridge...)

Skiing - I can only imagine that lift lines will be LONG - but mostly due to the 6ft. distancing I hope.
Hiking - Some people mask up when meeting others, some don't.
Boating - Some enforcement at the launch, no enforcement on the water.
Beach - Some enforcement on the sand, more enforcement in the parking lot.
Cities - IMHO, avoid. Read up on local regs & mandates before travelling.
 
Lockedin

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DarkWeb said:
Thanks, the locals appreciate all that you bring......oh wait :wall:
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The locals appreciated the business - at least the ones that were open did.
I live in a resort town, and we appreciate the business that tourists bring. Most have been observing mask and distancing mandates - just like we do when we travel.

My main issue was with people who can't help themselves from becoming emotional and making snide remarks about,

"all that you bring". ---- The rudeness is completely unnecessary and only exacerbates division.
 
DarkWeb

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Lockedin said:
The locals appreciated the business - at least the ones that were open did.
I live in a resort town, and we appreciate the business that tourists bring. Most have been observing mask and distancing mandates - just like we do when we travel.

My main issue was with people who can't help themselves from becoming emotional and making snide remarks about,

"all that you bring". ---- The rudeness is completely unnecessary and only exacerbates division.
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That's not the case around here. Lots of dumb people not playing by the rules. Visitors and second homeowners....rentals are all f'd up too. When shtf everyone bugged out here.....overwhelmed the area. Now with some places opening up people are commuting for the week down to the city and coming back and not giving a shit about the masks, social distancing, or big gatherings. It's kinda making paradise a jail. One of the local lakes you get turned away......now midweek is worse than any weekend I've ever seen. Still haven't been able to take my kids out on the kayaks once. Only about 15 spaces for cars. People are parking up and down roads and hiking in. Must be nice to come home and see a car parked in front of the house.

Depending on how you bring in money in a resort area makes a big difference.....if you have to rely on tourism it's got to be tough. I have lots of friends in that boat and have been there myself.

I'm very happy I bought my place a little farther away from that. But our school has record enrollment....in a few years I'm sure most of these new residents will be putting up their newly built or purchased homes up for sale. Once they realize how tough paradise can get.......it will be interesting to see how this pans out.
 
Lockedin

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DarkWeb said:
That's not the case around here. Lots of dumb people not playing by the rules. Visitors and second homeowners....rentals are all f'd up too. When shtf everyone bugged out here.....overwhelmed the area. Now with some places opening up people are commuting for the week down to the city and coming back and not giving a shit about the masks, social distancing, or big gatherings. It's kinda making paradise a jail. One of the local lakes you get turned away......now midweek is worse than any weekend I've ever seen. Still haven't been able to take my kids out on the kayaks once. Only about 15 spaces for cars. People are parking up and down roads and hiking in. Must be nice to come home and see a car parked in front of the house.

Depending on how you bring in money in a resort area makes a big difference.....if you have to rely on tourism it's got to be tough. I have lots of friends in that boat and have been there myself.

I'm very happy I bought my place a little farther away from that. But our school has record enrollment....in a few years I'm sure most of these new residents will be putting up their newly built or purchased homes up for sale. Once they realize how tough paradise can get.......it will be interesting to see how this pans out.
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We had that initially too, our local PD handed out parking tickets like trading cards for the first few weeks of summer - rightfully so, we had people parked in front of our mailbox, in front of fire hydrants, under no parking signs, crowding the beach and not distancing at all.
PD and lifeguards were very present initially. I think that may have had a good effect on tourists and locals to heed the rules; it has stayed quiet for most of the summer, masks, distancing and especially - the mood of the town has improved.

I feel you on the paradise as a jail - we usually stay inside or go hike a few hidden trails during the weekends. Forget getting on the water - there are more boats and inexperienced or drunk people at the helm than I've ever seen before - I'm afraid we'd get run over.

It really comes down to people respecting the areas that they visit. We usually get what we give.
 
DarkWeb

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Lockedin said:
We had that initially too, our local PD handed out parking tickets like trading cards for the first few weeks of summer - rightfully so, we had people parked in front of our mailbox, in front of fire hydrants, under no parking signs, crowding the beach and not distancing at all.
PD and lifeguards were very present initially. I think that may have had a good effect on tourists and locals to heed the rules; it has stayed quiet for most of the summer, masks, distancing and especially - the mood of the town has improved.

I feel you on the paradise as a jail - we usually stay inside or go hike a few hidden trails during the weekends. Forget getting on the water - there are more boats and inexperienced or drunk people at the helm than I've ever seen before - I'm afraid we'd get run over.

It really comes down to people respecting the areas that they visit. We usually get what we give.
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There is some private spots we have been to but nothing with water for the boats. Anything that was hidden has been found. The tour busses are going to be here soon for leaf season....our state has done great but I hope that doesn't change with the season. I'm going to be getting a different pass this year and a new set of skins. Maybe get out on the sled a bit more.
 
Lockedin

Lockedin

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Our season comes to an end after Labor Day in Sep., but with online only schooling, I'm expecting a better than usual "winter"**.
If your experience is anything like ours, the initial rush will probably cause a bit of chaos, then a routine will develop.
Being in a warm weather tourism area, people were able to distance easily - waiting outside for 30 minutes is fine in fair weather, but I am concerned about how the snow tourism regions will manage distancing when it gets too cold to be outside.

** "winter" - having traveled to places that have an actual Winter, I am very aware that there is no "winter" in my region. :bigjoint:
 
BobBitchen

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DarkWeb said:
So Bob what kind of skis did you leave your wife for?

Parlor keeps emailing me to buy some.......don't think I'm gonna even get a pass anywhere this year. The mtns start making snow in about 3 weeks.
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Ha, she bounced me a long time ago, ski's had nothing to do with it ;)

I held out on buying a pass until the last minute of the sale, If things go somewhat normal it will be worth it, if not,
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DarkWeb

DarkWeb

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BobBitchen said:
Ha, she bounced me a long time ago, ski's had nothing to do with it ;)

I held out on buying a pass until the last minute of the sale, If things go somewhat normal it will be worth it, if not,
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I still have about 8 days to make a decision. Been thinking.....I can get a new set of snowshoes, new tracking polls, new hiking boots and just go out the backdoor. I stick to the woods anyway.
 
DarkWeb

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BobBitchen said:
It's gonna be a weird season for sure. Just gotta roll with it.
Now go buy those Parlors :razz:
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LOL no I have no desire for the parlors. They have my email from a contest for a "free shop day" I entered years ago...I have a lot of gear.....and over the past few years have been building cores. Maybe we'll see how next year goes.....might be able to build the ski press I've been wanting to build. It takes a lot to make skis. You can't just go buy the tooling, gotta make it.

Gonna put 3 pair of race skis on consignment.
 
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