Arizona Snowbowl

Ty, we talked a lot about that '01 team in the build-up to the anniversary celebration over the weekend.

Would you put the Snowbowl as the most memorable game you were ever a part of?

Absolutely, as far as, uh, uh, uh, memories, uh, to get there.

We closing out the stadium.

Um, so this is interesting.

Arizona Snowbowl, who Todd has name checked a few times in the last couple weeks.

One of my favorite places to go.

Um, I've never been there.

Wait, an hour? How high are you going up the mountain?

Uh, so at Snowbowl, they have a route, so if we do it in, in boundaries, in park, which we c-

Mm-hmm

... we can do it outside.

Patrick says I had to rewind to double check after listening to the first 10 minutes.

You recap the exciting things MCP has done while mentioning every ski area except Arizona Snow Bowl.

Later, it made more sense.

You discussed Snowbowl specifically with Jason and called out the potential for Powerito to follow the same transformative storyline.

So, so talk about, I guess, to start with, just that pipeline.

I mean, there's echoes here of Arizona Snowbowl, your sister mountain-

S-

... which ran a pipeline all the way down to Flagstaff from its mountain.

Yeah.

And, and, and it, you know, tell us how much it helps to be part of a larger group like Mountain Capital.

I'm, I'm particularly interested because th- this Arizona Snowbowl story just amazes me how they...

And I, and I realize this was done before MCP arrived, but they, but they ran the pipeline all the way up from Flagstaff.

So you have these two ski areas, and I've not read through the RFP, the, the request proposals for Giants Ridge, but the Spirit Mountain one basically said, "You can run it and keep all the profit, but you have to agree to invest something like $20 million." I don't know what the terms are for Giants Ridge.

So Mountain Capital Partners, which owns a bunch of ski areas out west, Arizona Snowbowl, Purgatory, Brian Head, Nordic Valley, uh, Will- Willamette Pass in Oregon, uh, Pajaritos, Sipapu, and Sandia Peak in New Mexico, and then, uh, Valle Nevado and La Parva down in Chile, and I mi- I might have, uh, forgotten one or two there.

But, uh, nonetheless, Mountain Capital Partners bid on Spirit Mountain.

Now, typically, when Mountain Capital Partners buys a ski area in one region, they follow it by buying another ski area in that area.

S- uh, Sipapu and, and, uh, Pajarito, I, I never remember which one they bought first.

But then when they bought Purgatory in Colorado, they soon bought Hesperus in Colorado.

When they bought Arizona Snowbowl in Arizona, they soon bought Elk Meadows.

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