Snowbasin

Uh, not, not compared historically to season passes, but compared to Epic.

I, I think Ep- uh, Icon base has lost a lot of its value, as you don't get Alta, you don't get Aspen, you don't get Jackson, uh, you don't get Snowba- uh, S- Sun Valley and Snowbasin, and the Icon session is just the worst day pass product in skiing.

Just, I don't know what to say about Icon session other than don't buy it, because as I lay out with Sam tomorrow, the [laughs] Icon session, in almost every case, you can get a three or four-pack at that mountain for, with no blackouts, for less than the Icon session that has blackouts.

So, so those are some of the core problems.

So we are headed to, of all places, Eden, Utah.

We're going to be skiing Powder Mountain and Snow Basin during the day.

And in the evenings, we'll have our retreat and reflection on John Paul's great vision for human life.

So if that is of interest to you, please check out the link and sign up.

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I did the one in, the first one in Snowbasin.

Snowbasin, we still have glamping there.

We have glamping in, uh, at Mount Rainier now.

I'll tell you, though, that I much prefer Tahoe and being at The Ritz [laughs].

Yeah.

And that's fine, too, right? You have options for people.

I'll tell you, w- do you remember that, that Snowbasin event wh- I was in the tent with, um, Rob Moore, and we, I never laughed so much in my life.

Um-

Is that the Snowbasin one, or no?

No, that's the, that UTMB race is new.

That was the same weekend as Wasatch.

Okay.

But there's now...

And Snowbasin's really close to my house.

But the Goat Rattler 100, so Jeremy down at Ogden Running-

Mountain Capital Partners owns Nordic Mountain and, uh, I'm sorry, Nordic Valley and Brian Head.

And your, your real independents are Beaver Mountain, Cherry Peak, Powder Mountain, uh, and then Snowbasin is owned by the owners of Sun Valley.

Then you have Eagle Point, which is out of commission for this winter, unfortunately, due to wildfire.

So, you know, Vail, Alterra, Boyne, and Powder certainly are in better position to fend off potential challenges from a, a state or a public entity than would be the small independent family operators of New York State.

Okay.

Uh, my dad was a avid skier, um, and he was on the ski patrol at Snowbasin at the time, weekend ski patrol, because they wanted a physician on the patrol, and so he was somewhat casual ski patrol.

He wasn't running toboggans.

He was...

I was just a runner driving other runners down a mountain after their day had gone to shit.

The next morning, I drove straight to a brand new bi-UTMB race at Snow Basin, a ski resort just north of Salt Lake City.

I went there wanting to do something that was probably impossible, and that was...

Compare what I felt at Wasatch with what trail running looks like when it's built for the future, i.e. UTMB.

Michelle and Catherine built that race, and it has character over time.

I think the world championship there in Chamonix of UTMB, that is actually quite different.

And the important... uh delineation is between utmb and by utmb by utmb is the one that i think will struggle um and maybe struggle is not the right word by utmb is the one that we who are trying to protect something protect the heritage will struggle with that's probably a better way to put it uh because i want it to succeed again because i think it brings joy to a lot of people But Snow Basin by UTMB raised the harder question.

From the finish line, it felt technically correct.

I can't remember if it was her previous race or whatever, or a ride, but she, she crashed and got quite a severe concussion and, And so, oh, actually, it wasn't at the race.

She missed the last race at Snow Basin because she had a concussion.

Because of the

concussion.