J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Pablo Escobar

tino_11 wrote:Trencher, is that for a day? I don't pay that for an international pass in Zermatt which is widely regarded amongst the most expensive in Europe.

Banff/Lake Louise lift pass is in the top 5 most expensive passes in the world.

It is worth remembering that whilst it is so expensive you also get 3 modern extensive ski resorts with mostly high speed lifts and expensive on and controlled off piste terrain.

brooksy wrote:
I hope they have allowed for the weight of snow & ice that will lay on them. :shock:

From the article:

The panels are adjustable and can be removed to clear accumulated snow.

Ally, I wonder how much more energy the higher altitude panels get not to mention they may get more days of sunshine per year than rainy Wales.

TheoBane wrote:Great idea,will the cables be able to support all those panels and a very busy day in feb with the lift. Just thinking how much each of them weight then and combine all of them plus the chairs and then the people on them chairs

I'd imagine they have thought it through.

They are a Canadian based company so I guess it is natural that most of their business in Canada. With the strength of the CND I doubt they are so hot on exports right now.

A single ski rack would cost a European mountain restaurant about 100 euros (5 pairs of skis). If I owned a restaurant I'd be putting money in to buying 5 lots of racks and selling the keys. You'd pull your money back fairly quickly (assuming 'ski key' offer wholesale pricing). It makes great business sense.

bandit wrote:

Pablo Escobar wrote:
There is a reason all the major resorts in North America have these.

I've skied a few major resorts in north America, I saw plenty of money making enterprises on and off the slopes, but none of these.

I think that we should resist the creeping Disneyfication of European ski resorts. It will only encourage the abdication of an individual responsibility.

I am just saying people should have lockable ski racks not that they should turn the places in to large scale Tremblants :lol:

Is it really too much to ask? OK it's mostly Canada but seems as if plenty places have them...

http://www.skikey.com/locations/

I don't know how anyone can argue against that concept.

Yes. Don't quote me on it but the company makes the majority of their cash on the locks. If not free they are heavily discounted.

They don't need a cashbox. Click AllyGs link to the ski key and find out more about them.

If I was a restaurant I would take the initiative and install a secure place to leave skis. If people are aware of the issues then I bet they would pick the mountain hut with locking racks over the other one (assuming they are fairly similar).

There is a reason all the major resorts in North America have these.

Don't need concrete - just a well designed rack.

Every resort I have skied in Canada has Ski Key racks. Don't know why they don't catch on to this in EUrope.

(if you don't know what they are Google 'ski key')