{"id":60086,"date":"2012-02-07T22:27:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T05:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=60086"},"modified":"2012-02-07T22:27:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T05:27:30","slug":"no-business-like-snow-business-the-economics-of-big-ski-resorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=60086","title":{"rendered":"No Business Like Snow Business: The Economics of Big Ski Resorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Don&#8217;t be confused by the soft powder. Ski-nomics at Vail and Whistler\/Blackcomb is a hardened and savvy industry. Meet the mile-high strategies that keep America&#8217;s largest ski resorts in the black.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The view is best from the top. It&#8217;s the moment you disembark from the chair lift that&#8217;s borne you over the boulevards of snow carved with &#8220;S&#8221;-shaped grooves. Some skiers cherish the first morning vista, in the thin and freezing air, before they tighten their boots and point their twin sheaths of metal down a vertical field of white. I prefer the last run, wobbly and a little reckless, down the peak&#8217;s backside at three o&#8217;clock, toward the room with a fire, a hot mug, and a bag of ice. These moments, and the many between them, inspire\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/02\/no-business-like-snow-business-the-economics-of-the-largest-ski-resorts\/252180\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t be confused by the soft powder. Ski-nomics at Vail and Whistler\/Blackcomb is a hardened and savvy industry. Meet the mile-high strategies that keep America&#8217;s largest ski resorts in the black. The view is best from the top. It&#8217;s the moment you disembark from the chair lift that&#8217;s borne you over the boulevards of snow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60087,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60086\/revisions\/60087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}