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Given the resort's social cachet and the success of the financial markets in the last decade, competition to add a Palm Beach address to one's portfolio has been white hot in recent years.

What's more, given the resort town's increasingly older population, Soucy said the shop is in need of summer help there are so few young locals these days that Provincetown's high school closed in 2013.

AAA gives the resort five diamonds, its top rating, and it has been designated as a National Historic Landmark.

But this season, much of the real action is taking place off-slope, in the base village and the sleepy mining town that gives the resort its name.

There are nine tennis courts, a supervised children's center and a new 18-hole golf course designed by Tom Fazio, giving the resort 27 holes for now.

The centerpiece of the revamped ski area is a bottom-to-top gondola lift finished before last season, which helps give the resort a 4,133-foot 4,133-footrop, second in Canada to Whistler Blackcomb.

Some find this a pain but I think it gives the resort a unique identity, chugging steeply through three tunnels towards ski lifts at Nätschen (10 minutes) and on for a further five minutes, spraying snow, to Oberalp.

And a startling project to build a cable car running all the way up from the autoroute and railway line in the Vallée de l'Arve – a distance of about seven kilometres – gives the resort the potential to attract a new influx of skiers.

Then Andrew Harper's Hideaway Report gave the resort its first award, and the die was cast.

A case in point is the diesel generators used to supply Kirkwood's power, giving the resort one of the highest costs per kilowatt of anywhere in the country.

The idea behind the new system is to give the resorts more control over their ticket prices on a daily basis – and it's a timely launch, given one of the worst ski seasons in recent history.