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Bet you didn't see this. Colorado's most famous ski resort just reopened and it might be, no, it is the most insulting move in skiing. So everyone thinks that Telluride is bad, but what's happening right now is not a comeback. It is a warning, and it is unbelievable. Today, on day 10 of the strike, Telluride Ski Resort attempted a so called reopening. Check this out. Out of a 149 trails, two are open. Out of 17 lifts, one lift and two magic carpets. That's a 2% opening covered by temporary staff and four nonunion patrollers on beginner terrain. And then and then came the threat. The resort's homepage now says, anyone trespassing on the mountain will be prosecuted. Listen. In a town where uphill skiing is a way of life, the owner just tried to turn National Forest Rank into a no go zone. Bro. And then there's this deceptive offer. The ownership leaked a new deal to the press before the union even saw it. They claimed higher pay, but here's the shell game. There's always a shell game. They cut the guaranteed cost of living raise, the whole point, and replace it with a $1.50 complexity bonus that's paid at the end of the season and can be taken away anytime. The union called it bad faith bargaining. They're saying, yeah. Obviously, this is just gonna make workers look greedy and scare them into folding. And now there's this economic death spiral happening in Telluride. Telluride is bleeding. January occupancy is already down worse, and the next two weeks is 19% behind last year. Other resorts are openly poaching their best, like even Monarch Mountain welcomed Telluride refugees. Transportation companies are down 22% in a single week, and some are now running escape tours to survive. All of this over $65,000 gap. The resort is losing $1,000,000 a day to avoid paying it. This isn't about snow. It's not about tourism. It's about what happens when paid and passion finally breaks, and just taking advantage of people that are passionate and will work for less than probably what they should have been paid from the get go. If ski patrollers can't afford a town with a $1,600,000 median home price, the lifts don't spin no matter how elite the brand is. Telluride isn't reopening. It's unraveling. And you know what? Good. Like, it just so happens to be extremely convenient that right now the snow is absolutely abysmal. So, like, good bless if they're gonna do it. Like, now is the least damaging time for the general populace, but it is unbelievable to me that they're willing to lose a million dollars a day just to avoid paying the most important people on the mountain. We are keeping super tight tabs on this. Follow along because we have a lot of updates coming. I'm Kyle Better, and I keep track of everything Colorado no you don't have to.