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Vail Resorts Are Opening !!!

Tim Hodgson

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Good News!

Perisher, Falls Creek and Mount Hotham are all planning to open their doors in late June (along with the other Australian Resorts):

https://www.perisher.com.au/epic-australia-pass/passes/47-press-releases

https://www.perisher.com.au/plan-your-trip/new-to-perisher/covid19-update

Whistler is also planning on opening June 29th for those that are into Mountain Biking:

https://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/e...in-bike-park/whistler-mountain-bike-park.aspx

Heavenly and Northstar are both planning to open for the summer on July 3rd, with Northstar opening for Mountain Biking on July 10th.



IMHO, this is positive news for our Northern Hemisphere 2020-2021 upcoming Season, since Vail Resorts is likely the only North American resort company which is going to get a solid practice run in the Southern Hemisphere prior to opening for skiing for our North American winter.
 

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^^^^
It's weird how much I love that pic!! Well maybe not weird to people on here...
 

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@geepers there is a whole lot of ahhhhh in that photo.
 

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Unfortunately, it looks like they closed their 2 Victorian Resorts. Their NSW resort remains open along with some non-Vail resorts.
 

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Vail Resorts Australia boss pens letter to Victorian employees

The decision to suspend our operations in Victoria was exceptionally difficult. Be Safe is one of our core values and throughout this crisis we have led with a safety-first mindset. Much like the March closing of our resorts in North America, no one ordered us to suspend operations at Hotham and Falls Creek and we understand that not everyone will agree with our approach, or make the same choices. We wanted to provide some additional detail on our thinking, to ensure all our employees understand how we made this decision.

These three orders, taken in combination, highlighted to us that Government believed COVID-19 represented a very serious risk across Victoria. Clearly, the risk is more elevated in Melbourne and Mitchell Shire than the rest of Victoria and there is currently no Stay at Home order at either of our resorts. However, we believe a few unique risks drove our decision to suspend operations:

  • If we have learned anything about this pandemic over the past four months it’s that things move quicker than any of us expect and it’s important for us to be out front of the situation from a safety perspective, especially considering how quickly things just moved in Melbourne.
  • At the time the Stage 3, Stay at Home order was issued, our resorts already had many guests from Melbourne and Mitchell on property, representing an unknown risk for future local cases.
  • If we remained operational for guests outside of Melbourne and Mitchell Shire, we would be bringing together people from all over the rest of Victoria, which seems directly counter to the guidelines and best safety practices right now.


There's more but that's the crux.

The cases in Victoria are under 300 per day for a state of 6.5 million people.

Maybe the take-away is to not assume that a similar thing won't happen elsewhere in the world in the event of covid cases.

At this stage the NSW Vail resort, Perisher, remains open. There's a smaller case spike in Sydney (main NSW city) and plenty of concern that restrictions will be re-imposed. :(
 

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Unfortunately, it looks like they closed their 2 Victorian Resorts. Their NSW resort remains open along with some non-Vail resorts.
I thought this was posted here, but evidently its in the thread about how the coming ski season has changed.
#590

It was also covered on the local news here.

@geepers the news also showed long lines of traffic. They were talking about panic buying/hoarding??? Was this traffic trying to get to stores?
 

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