G. Kingston:
"WHISTLER — The question hanging over the Telus Whistler Ski and Snowboard Festival this year is simple: What happens to the party to end all end-of-season parties when ESPN comes in next year with its hugely successful X Games brand?
The 10-day festival, a rollicking combination of cutting-edge extreme sport and often dazzling and innovative visual and performing arts, is already the largest spring event of its kind in the world.
The American sports broadcasting giant hasn’t officially given Whistler the nod yet, but all signs point to the resort municipality being on the X Games schedule starting in 2013..." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
Showing posts with label Winter X Games venue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter X Games venue. Show all posts
April 29, 2012
February 15, 2012
SandBox Comments: Aspen Daily News "Public funds sweeten Whistler’s X Games bid"
Talk about grounds for a major uprising. An 'Aspen Spring'.
If it turns out that we lose X Games because Paula and Jim Crown were too tight to part with some of that 'earned' cash that has accumulated for years by not paying the kids a living wage; the folks are not going to be happy.
Especially after watching all the shuck and jive from Aspen Skico execs over X Games possible exit and listening to the Skico demands for more money pitched in from the community. After calling us all a 'bunch of bitching locals'.
We already lost out to Vail once this season. To lose again to Whistler??!!@#^!
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"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
If it turns out that we lose X Games because Paula and Jim Crown were too tight to part with some of that 'earned' cash that has accumulated for years by not paying the kids a living wage; the folks are not going to be happy.
Especially after watching all the shuck and jive from Aspen Skico execs over X Games possible exit and listening to the Skico demands for more money pitched in from the community. After calling us all a 'bunch of bitching locals'.
We already lost out to Vail once this season. To lose again to Whistler??!!@#^!
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"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
January 26, 2012
SandBox Comments: Aspen Daily News "X Games carnage gets started a day early"
Chad Abraham:
"...An Aspen man was arrested Wednesday at the Buttermilk ski area for allegedly speeding through a restricted parking lot with a security guard atop his vehicle.
Martin Horowitz, 66, faces a misdemeanor charge of third-degree assault after the vehicle he was in slammed into a snowbank around 10:45 a.m., leaving the guard with a bloody nose.
Horowitz had spoken with the guard about the parking area, which because of the X Games that start today, is only open to buses and X Games personnel with passes, said deputy Alex Burchetta of the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office.
Horowitz failed to give the guard, who was standing near the front driver’s side tire, any room to escape before driving off. The man ended up on the hood of the defendant’s vehicle when he drove 120 feet before striking the snowbank, Burchetta said. The bloody nose came from the victim’s face hitting the windshield.
Burchetta said Horowitz, who was also cited for reckless driving, did not indicate why he sped away.
“He was on his way to go skiing,” the deputy said, adding Horowitz had a friend with him in the vehicle...."
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"...An Aspen man was arrested Wednesday at the Buttermilk ski area for allegedly speeding through a restricted parking lot with a security guard atop his vehicle.
Martin Horowitz, 66, faces a misdemeanor charge of third-degree assault after the vehicle he was in slammed into a snowbank around 10:45 a.m., leaving the guard with a bloody nose.
Horowitz had spoken with the guard about the parking area, which because of the X Games that start today, is only open to buses and X Games personnel with passes, said deputy Alex Burchetta of the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office.
Horowitz failed to give the guard, who was standing near the front driver’s side tire, any room to escape before driving off. The man ended up on the hood of the defendant’s vehicle when he drove 120 feet before striking the snowbank, Burchetta said. The bloody nose came from the victim’s face hitting the windshield.
Burchetta said Horowitz, who was also cited for reckless driving, did not indicate why he sped away.
“He was on his way to go skiing,” the deputy said, adding Horowitz had a friend with him in the vehicle...."
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SandBox Comments: Aspen Daily News "Winter X Games impact a multimillion dollar question"
Carolyn Sackariason:
"The Winter X Games are all about going big, and Aspen on Saturday will do just that, based on lodging occupancy reports, which suggest town will be 97 percent full.
“Aspen is as close to completely sold out as I’ve ever seen it, although we can still find some rooms and condos in Snowmass, whose occupancy according to this report is peaking around 80 percent,” Bill Tomcich, president of central reservations agency Stay Aspen Snowmass (SAS), said in an email.
He noted that Saturday’s numbers are the highest he’s ever seen since SAS started tracking nightly occupancies in 2006. There are only a “handful” of rooms available in Aspen and the occupancy report is based on a sampling of 65 percent of 2,304 rentable units in Aspen, Tomcich said.
Before ESPN brought the X Games to Buttermilk in 2002, the last weekend of January and the beginning of February were not considered to be peak times for the resort.
From Jan. 21-28, 2001, the year prior to the X Games coming here, occupancy in Aspen was 73 percent, while the week of Jan. 29-Feb. 5 was 69 percent, according to Tomcich. He noted that at the time, there was no ability to track occupancy rates on a nightly basis so the above numbers are not an apples-to-apples comparison.
Neither the city of Aspen nor the Aspen Chamber Resort Association (ACRA) have done any analysis on what the Winter X Games contribute to the local economy since 2007..."
"The Winter X Games are all about going big, and Aspen on Saturday will do just that, based on lodging occupancy reports, which suggest town will be 97 percent full.
“Aspen is as close to completely sold out as I’ve ever seen it, although we can still find some rooms and condos in Snowmass, whose occupancy according to this report is peaking around 80 percent,” Bill Tomcich, president of central reservations agency Stay Aspen Snowmass (SAS), said in an email.
He noted that Saturday’s numbers are the highest he’s ever seen since SAS started tracking nightly occupancies in 2006. There are only a “handful” of rooms available in Aspen and the occupancy report is based on a sampling of 65 percent of 2,304 rentable units in Aspen, Tomcich said.
Before ESPN brought the X Games to Buttermilk in 2002, the last weekend of January and the beginning of February were not considered to be peak times for the resort.
From Jan. 21-28, 2001, the year prior to the X Games coming here, occupancy in Aspen was 73 percent, while the week of Jan. 29-Feb. 5 was 69 percent, according to Tomcich. He noted that at the time, there was no ability to track occupancy rates on a nightly basis so the above numbers are not an apples-to-apples comparison.
Neither the city of Aspen nor the Aspen Chamber Resort Association (ACRA) have done any analysis on what the Winter X Games contribute to the local economy since 2007..."
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