It's very exciting. It's a little bit like going on a foreign vacation but being able to sleep in your own bed at night.

We've used up the water in the basin, pretty much. We've used ground water and mine water for 120 years and we've stripped that.

We're stunned in a way.

Not many people want to come and work three jobs so they can ski one afternoon a week. A lot of the Mexicans aren't interested in skiing, they're just making a better wage than where they're coming from. At this point most resorts couldn't live without them.

Our dream is not to constantly make it bigger and make more money. I mean we're pleased at this kind of economic impact. But if every year it stays the same, that's fine with us.

I think all of us were taken by surprise over the last five years of how big and successful it's become.