News Thredbo extend season pass purchase date

same deal for the seasonal programs

 

No, I mean it is the same deal for the seasonal programs. Final payment date deferred.

I got the email about it today

 

Well that's sensible.

 

And at the end of May we will likely all get emails saying they’ve held our deposits over on 2021 Passes.

Although it’d be awesome if we got a season, even if it came with rules.

 

My guess is that if the lifts run there will be limited services available - most of the eateries and the ski school would remain closed.

 

Can't see it happening. I guess we'll find out in the coming months but it's not looking promising.

2020 will be the year of backcountry. Will have to be.

 

Just limit to one person per chairlift and 1.5m rule in the lift lines. Sure the queues might be a few kilometres long....

 

One person per new gondie... Thredbo are going to be pissed if thats doesn't open this year!

 

Or not. Parks are likely to be closed.

 

That would be fookin shite. There're not really many skiable places that aren't in parks are there? I mean even the Brindies etc are National Park.

 

If you don't shut the parks, you'll still have Pelicans turning up to play in the snow etc.
Which ... is kinda like Bondi...
Hence.

 

lottery, x number of people allowed in per day for y scheduled hours, starting at z lift and keeping appropriate distancing.

The tricky part would be any serious injuries that occur.

 

So tell me about Herding cats.

 

Fair point.

 

disable their pass at the end of their scheduled time

 

Actually probably easier to do at Perisher, allocate people to one particular part of the resort and lock out their cards for the rest.

 

But but i'm from Scots College....

 

Tell what you'll do at the Toboggan area?

 

It’s not the toboggan area that’s the issue, it’s the medical centre required to support a toboggan area. And word is medical centre’s are/will be busy or have no supplies or no staff.

 

no toboggan area, it can stay closed as there isn't any social distancing there ever.

 

Well yeah
But its a bit hard to socially distance on that "hill"

 

Tell that to the Pelicans

 

Well Ski Patrol in the first instance... And then an ambo down the hill.

Medical centre technically not required.

 

This is the toboggan areas we are talking about which is anywhere you can park a car & fall in the snow out of Jindy.

 

Okay, then ambo called

 

Same can be said for ski lift queues. Tough to keep a 1.5m social distance when people keep sliding into each other in the line.

 

Rapid infection progress through the population along with the imminent arrival of near instant pinprick tests for antibodies will produce enough staff and skiers who can be checked at the ticket box and have their pass validated.
If you want to ski now is the time to get infected, if you're up for the gamble.

 

Actually if skiers just lined up skis end to end they would be close to 1.5m apart, but instead they insist on overlapping, not that it gets them onto the lift any faster

 

With NSW extending the lockdown for 90 days. Even if we were to come out of it until end of July I suspect that Perisher would have no staff and not be able to open anyway. Why would they take a financial hit for one month

 

From what I understand, Perisher pretty much run on company staff for the last couple of weeks of the season the folk who transition to maintenance in summer etc. I think they could scrape together something.
I guess with the Mt Biking these days Thredbo should have a more permanent crew?
Hard to know how many people are going to be able to hang around Jindy this winter on the off chance of something coming up though?

The bigger question is, what it actually costs to get a resort ready to function. Probably difficult to justify for any shorter period of time.