This may sound an almost Onion worthy headline but this is Vail...
... where you will now pay an unbelievable $159 for a single day of skiing in the Holiday Season. It's a free country (market) and Vail can charge what people are stupid enough to pay but I think the technical term for this is financial fisting. And the particularly depressing thing is that Vail itself is so average. There is already a thread in full swing discussing the matter so I'll leave you with this poll: