I think in this case "bail" means go home when the snow is bad, the weather is bad, or the crowds get too big. A day to day issue, not bail from the resort all together. Whereas a visitor will stay on less than good days to get their money and time worth.
Yes, after re-reading the post I was quoting from you are right.
I said i wouldn't post and wont about the topic, but this is just on the techy side so couldn't resist and is intellectually stimulating deom a pure tech perspective.
I also wrote in another thread, VR created their own RFID solution the 7or 8years back using next gen RFID protocol and frequencies and cobbling together all the disparate components together, cards readers and most important the software all inhouse customized and self programmed and created. And not just buying an off the shelf solution from skidata.
The biggest tech. difference and reason is the next gen RFID they picked could be read from feet to meters away, which is how and why the epicmix arches work to track and give stats and the handguns can read from a distance.
SkIdata cards technology are still proximity distance which is why you need to just about tap against the reader to get a read. They cannot be read from feet or meters away. The upper mtn gates some resorts have without bars, won't read just by passing through, a tap ia needed, they exist just deprecated or mainly if a person voluntarily wants to log their ride for a vert contest or other trackint or something.
That's super neat! I didn't realize that Vail had this sort of RFID technology. Very smart. It would be really interesting to work on their Data Science team analyzing this data. I'm sure this gives them a ton of insight into decisions like "should we upgrade this HSQ to a six-pack", or "should we groom more or fewer steep trails to help disperse or condense skiers across these slopes", or so many other questions. This stuff is the future.