I’m not particularly stoked to see the low capability tourist addition to A-Basin, which we noticed increasing this year while hiking Little Lenawee now that BMX is running more on lift pass sales.
People were throwing trash in Lake Reveal hiking up the road from BML, which we waded in to fish out, and there was the usual other Ugly American stuff of taking in super loud voices and making everybody else experience you.
I fully support that all ski operators should be leveraging on mountain assets for a summer season, especially with climate change risks, and they need to do it sooner than later. Selling lift passes and guide passes to take an obese nation on InstaTours isn’t money you can pass up, but I can’t say I’m stoked to see Disneyland added on top of the EpicBroBrah at A-Basin. Little Lenawee as a summit from the base was like a 14’er without the crowds and that’s going to be gone.
I’ll be interested to see what they do with MTB - today that’s mostly a route to drop over the back side into Montezuma since as a climb it’s a grinder for a descent that isn’t all that much singletrack.
Oh - there’s a zipline in the plans, too. It all sounds more like Epic than less.