Telluride ski patrol ends strike, ski resort to reopen this weekend
Strike Ends at Telluride Ski Resort After 13 Days
After 13 days on strike, the Telluride Professional Ski Patrol Association has accepted a new contract offer from Telluride Ski & Golf to end the work stoppage that has created economic trouble in the town and pitted residents against one another.
Graham Hoffman, president of the ski patrollers’ union, confirmed that the 70-member organization had accepted the offer, which was made earlier this week. He was not immediately available to comment further.
The resort issued a statement Thursday afternoon, saying the mountain will soon begin the process of reopening more of the mountain by this weekend. “Lift 4 will open on Saturday with the additional runs of Butterfly, Lower Misty Maiden and Boomerang. The next objective will be to open the “Super Loop” with more lifts and terrain to follow,” the statement read.
The news comes nearly two weeks after the union went on strike, demanding better wages. Resort ownership chose to cease all operations at that time, leaving the town’s small business and workforce without their main economic engine.
On Wednesday, about 100 residents and business owners gathered in the streets to ask the two sides to end the impasse before it was too late to salvage the season.
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