eatskisleep
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Please no bubbles, please no bubbles!!!!!!
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Jay Peak bombshell
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Smellytele
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Maybe just a shield on the right side of the chair that blocks the wind that blows straight from the artic across the flat frozen Canadian tundra.
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Guess you should have been pulling for Vail then. I'm still a bit surprised they kept the Okemo Quantum bubbles when they did the move.
eatskisleep
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I’d be happy with that. I just like fresh air, especially in a post-covid world.
Also, Vail Sucks!
joshua segal
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I found myself at Okemo last season for the first time in 50 years. It was a really cold-windy day. I spent 90% of the day on the Bubble-six. The heated seats and the bubble immensely improved the experience. On a warmer day later in the season, we rode bubble-up.
I spend a lot of time at Killington. On really cold and windy days, I used to spend the entire day doing laps on K1. I was pleased when they swapped out the Slowden Quad for the Bubble-six and provided a fast and comfortable ride on those brutally cold days.
The Bubble may not make a difference to the 10K vertical skiers who take a lot of breaks in the day, but if your typical day is 25K to 35K vertical, the enclosed lifts make a big difference.
I spend a lot of time at Killington. On really cold and windy days, I used to spend the entire day doing laps on K1. I was pleased when they swapped out the Slowden Quad for the Bubble-six and provided a fast and comfortable ride on those brutally cold days.
The Bubble may not make a difference to the 10K vertical skiers who take a lot of breaks in the day, but if your typical day is 25K to 35K vertical, the enclosed lifts make a big difference.
Smellytele
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nope. You come over the rise about 2/3rds of the way up and it hits you from about 2-3 o'clock as you cross over Alligator ally near staircase
jimmywilson69
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That email from Steve W was great!
I hope he and Mike S from Killington stay at these jobs a long time and are mentoring younger staff to manage the same way in the future.
Vail should take note...
I hope he and Mike S from Killington stay at these jobs a long time and are mentoring younger staff to manage the same way in the future.
Vail should take note...
BenedictGomez
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Sticking with there never were any additional bids.
thebigo
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Then why the $20M price increase?
I get the receiver's job was to recoup funds for the investors but that $20M sure would have looked good on the hill.
BenedictGomez
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Then color me surprised in this environment when few deals are getting done, I saw that the initially named entity's taking control, but I didn't see the updated $18M higher figure. A few pages back I guessed it was worth $60M - $75M, so I think $76M is a fair deal. At least this many-year saga will soon be over.
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KustyTheKlown
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lol.
Yeah I remember getting all zipped up into chair mode before cresting the ridge. I just remember it hitting me head on. I Used to ski Jay a lot in the 80's up until about the time they opened tore down the old hotel Jay. Have only been a couple of days since.
Agreed. The Bubbles saved at least half of our recent week at Big Sky when the highs were in the 0-10F range.
I just don't know if Pacific is going to be able to spend that much on new lifts after dropping $76 mill to buy the place. I think a reasonable expectation may be replacing Bonnie with a HSQ and maybe the Jet. Both are approaching 35+ years old.
jimmywilson69
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That picture never gets old...
its so incredibly odd
nothing says "have a good time skiing" like that...
its so incredibly odd
nothing says "have a good time skiing" like that...
BenedictGomez
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I was literally about to post, "that picture never gets old", and then I saw your reply.
It's like a photo some authoritarian dictator would pose with his military brass to frighten the citizenry into submission.
BenedictGomez
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This is probably correct, but skier's right needs help too. The line at the Freezer now gets so long certain weekends & holidays that it makes you ponder whether skiing that day was the correct choice. The entire period comprising Canuck school vacation(s) is particularly brutal.
BenedictGomez
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Dear Pacific Group Resorts,
Congratulations on your winning bid for Jay Peak, a truly wonderful property. I'm just wondering what your thoughts are regarding Bicknell's Thrush.
Best of luck,
BG
Congratulations on your winning bid for Jay Peak, a truly wonderful property. I'm just wondering what your thoughts are regarding Bicknell's Thrush.
Best of luck,
BG
drjeff
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Between mutiple lifts and snowmaking enhancements as well, realistically it's probably in the neighborhood of 40 to 50 million that likely should be spent over the next say 5 years or so at Jay to get the infrastructure up to where it likely needs to be for the next 10 - 20 years of operations. Not exaclty a small amount, and likely going to have the new ownership taking a long look at how they will allocate their coming capital investments across all of their resort holdings
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