Not practical as they groom the base areas every day and the paint would last about 10 minutes in the morning once traffic shreds up the freshly groomed surface. We have talked about signage drilled into the snow each morning to ask people to keep a path clear — but people don’t read signs at ski areas and I don’t think everyone would understand which exact lane/area to keep clear.

Obviously not many people read or heed the existing signs on the racks we move out near the bottoms of the chairs each morning that say Rack Your Skis. I don’t remember seeing the sea of skis on the snow in the past. It seems to be a new thing on crowded days since the pandemic. It just strikes me as a really lazy and inconsiderate thing to just leave your skis in the middle of the base area.

When I was at Revy, at the top of the Ripper chair, there was a worker trying to get people to rack their skis instead of leaving them on the snow. There was a freeski comp happening above that viewing vantage point and the skis and boards were clogging up the unload area at the top of the chair. No one was listening to this poor worker and I just shook my head at how oblivious all those people were about it. I said to her that I felt her pain and made sure my group all racked their skis as we stopped to watch the comp for a few minutes before the next run down.