A lot of our growth is from destination visitors. The monetary value to the resort is a lot greater with that type of visitor.

It's great to look at the Front Range resorts and see big growth as a result of local snow-driven excitement. When we look at where our biggest growth is, we see that our destination business is booming.

It's certainly odd to have incidents like this take place simultaneously, but we had the equipment and the personnel to respond to both of them.

We have guest services people at the bottom of the mountain looking for it. We don't want our guests to be hassled and inconvenienced. When they're on our property we'll do what we can to assist in aiding their privacy.

The snow helps, and everything couldn't happen without it, but there's more to it than that. We've been riding a wave.

Highlands far and away leaped the pack. The investment we made is paying dividends.