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    benski replied to the thread The "Sugarbush Thread".
    Was it just me or does Sugarbush now have a ton of skiers finding kickers to do tricks off of. I saw a few people do black flips on...
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    benski reacted to vtski802's post in the thread The "Sugarbush Thread" with Like Like.
    There are still 2 chairs on the ground over at north, and the line hasn't moved at all - snow on all the chairs from Tuesday. Wish...
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    benski replied to the thread The "Sugarbush Thread".
    If only they had a matching lift to the Village lift that also wasn't running to take the part from.
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    benski replied to the thread VAIL SUCKS.
    The reason developers only build "luxury" apartments is it costs them almost nothing to go from minimally habitable to "luxury". Just...
  • benski
    benski replied to the thread The "Sugarbush Thread".
    We are heading into gaper week, and they will need a beginner hill lift for a lot of sporadic visitors. The thing about that crowd is...
  • benski
    benski replied to the thread The "Sugarbush Thread".
    I was really glad to be at the Bush as opposed to the Front Range where it R@#$ today. Castlerock was sick today. Also are both the...
  • benski
    benski replied to the thread The "Sugarbush Thread".
    Today was frickin awesome. They got a good 8+ inches, and there was never much of a line. We hiked over to Casterock and it seems ready...
  • benski
    benski replied to the thread The "Sugarbush Thread".
    Maybe they figure the only people hard core enough to complain about missing out on freshly glazed ski trails are on Alpinezone and...
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    As much as you guys are complaining, I just dropped my skis off at Denver airport and there were ten other people at oversized bags...
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    benski replied to the thread VAIL SUCKS.
    Vail has invested a lot of money into feeder hills outside of Peaks, between a few they bought separately, and investing in new lifts...
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    benski replied to the thread VAIL SUCKS.
    I think it is the macro since both manufacturers are building or recently expanded facilities to build lifts. So I guess both...
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    I don't know if this is why, but when they were taken down they were also a few years out of date and that has been mostly fixed. I do...
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    The technology seems to be much more useful for lifts with a mid load, where if someone misses a chair it then becomes available for the...
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    benski replied to the thread Vote for Utah ski bus.
    UTA busses cost a lot more than 150K. Transit busses are 400-800K, and last 12-15 years. Are you talking those minibusses like a Ford...
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    benski reacted to Shredmonkey254's post in the thread The "Sugarbush Thread" with Like Like.
    There are 1,124 pages on the "Sugarbush thread". If we got rid of every post related to snowmaking, there would probably be less than...
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