It's been true for a long time. We felt the most impact of that when the middle bracket of the baby boomers passed 40.

Global warming is a key environmental issue and a bottom line issue for the $3bn ski industry and its employees.

It is a big concern. If the price keeps going up, under the worst circumstances, we may have to discontinue serving oysters for a while but we are an oyster bar so it's kind of hard to stop selling oysters.

If you look at the larger companies in the industry, it's a year-round business. It's really a hospitality industry on a year-round basis and we're in the ski business from December to March.

[It's] an opportunity for both guests and employees to gain a better understanding of the importance of personal responsibility on the slopes. Resorts nationwide implement new programs during safety week that expand their overall safety initiatives for the season.

It's been an awful 14 months to be honest with you. I don't want the case to go cold. I promised my daughter at her grave I'd find who did this.

The base village concept promotes the idea of warm pillows and the greater the number of warm pillows, the greater number of lift tickets sold.

It's an absolute elite group of people who end up going on helicopter ski vacation.

Not much of that goes on in the United States.