Vail Resorts issued its annual early season update to investors on Thursday, reporting that season-to-date total skier visits through Jan. 5 are down 0.3% compared to the same period last season. But total lift ticket revenue

Vail Resorts CEO Kirsten Lynch said Jan.16 the company is pleased to have reached an agreement with the Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association, ending the nearly two-week strike over increased wages and benefits.

Vail Resorts, which faced backlash over a Park City ski patrol strike, gets hate from locals and ski bums over the corporatization of skiing.

A class action lawsuit against Vail Resorts gains momentum as hundreds of affected customers claim the company failed to disclose the impacts of a ski patrol strike, ruining their vacations.

Attorney Daniel Tarpey expects it to be an “arduous” and “long procedural fight.” He and co-counsel have to prove there are enough skiers that may have been harmed in the same way during Park City Mountain’s recent strike to justify class action.

Vail Resorts has mastered the art of getting skiers from a lower elevation to a higher one. But when it comes to doing the same for its stock investors, the chairlift is broken. The latest example is how an otherwise promising start to the ski season got derailed by a strike of ski patrol workers on Dec.

Vail Resorts says it will offer a discount on next year's pass to anyone who skied or snowboarded at Park City Mountain during the patrol strike between Dec. 27 and Jan. 8.

The information, shared in a news release from Vail Resorts, comes only a few short days after the widely-publicized Park City Mountain patrol strike.