Pandemic Disrupts Ski Town Life in More Ways Than One

Pandemic Disrupts Ski Town Life in More Ways Than One
The working class that make ski towns run are getting squeezed out of work by public health restrictions while wealthy newcomers push real estate markets to crazy new heights.
December 30, 2020, 10am PST | James Brasuell |
Kristi Blokhin
Monica Prelle writes on the struggles of ski towns, where the workers who help these winter destinations run were finding it harder and harder to make ends meet even before the pandemic.
Prelle's coverage centers on Mammoth Mountain in California, where hopes that the pandemic might restore skiing as a classless luxury seems like an impossible dream as unemployment insurance and other stimulus programs have expired while many of the local businesses that employ local ski bums are still closed.

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