The latest installment of the Strattonization of Sugarbush can be nothing but bad juju for the resort. Making the best skiing available only to those who are willing and able to pay the $500 up charge violates the soul of skiing to the extent that I'm counting on a snowless winter. Goodbye powder mornings for the unwashed. I expect further lift failures and bursting water pipes for the snowmaking systems (which shouldn't be an issue since it'll be 50 all winter) . I wouldn't even discount an Ebola outbreak. There's no way something of this magnitude can go unpunished by the Ski Gods. It's that wrong. It makes me sick.

C'mon, aren't we better than this? "Be better here" , right?