Re: You got to understand that all those people hanging out in the pipe are not spending any money at the ski hill. They want people skiing there that are buying lunch, new gloves and hat, dinner, etc. etc. etc. I bet that you and all your friends didn’t put more that $100 dollars (excluding your passes) into the ski hill last year[
First of all, we’re all spending money at the ski hill if we’re going there.
Second, the purchase of a pass is nothing to sneeze at…we’re talking $1000 and that’s a big ticket purchase by any standards for the average person.
Thirdly, Fernie is quickly losing ground to all the other resorts in this region (BC Rockies/Purcells/Banff) in addition to Whistler, the Colorado group and everyone else in the world, and it’s primarily since they haven’t had a significant increase in services, expansion in terrain, or additional real estate development in a while. This is a bit off topic re the pipe, but the fact is, any subtraction in service is a bad thing. It’s one thing to remove the pipe and make the park twice as good as last year, it’s another to randomly reduce service and not increase it elsewhere.
Sorry, the “Kokanee Deck” just doesn’t cut it.
elsie
