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VAIL SUCKS

Edd

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Would this, in any way, affect your decision to ski the WROD today or not?

Ski or don't, but Vail got their shit open before anyone else, yet you all manage to find a problem with it anyways.
Yeah, but this is basic Vail strategy, no matter the time of year. Their snow reports are about as helpful as a coin flip, it’s obvious they consider accurate, detailed information for the customer to be a negative.
 

ThatGuy

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Yeah, but this is basic Vail strategy, no matter the time of year. Their snow reports are about as helpful as a coin flip, it’s obvious they consider accurate, detailed information for the customer to be a negative.
I remember 3 or 4 years ago I was at Mt Snow on a day it was dumping and was lapping the North Face waiting for Sunbrook to open. I see it finally listed as open on the map so I take a little woods cut that brings you over there. The run was great untouched powder the whole way down and I’m thinking to myself wow no one must’ve noticed it was open. Get to the bottom and the lifty tells me its not supposed to be open yet but sends me back up the lift anyway. At the top ski patrol was waiting for me and tells me they’re going to take my pass for ducking ropes. I show them the virtual map and that it has all of Sunbrook open already. Old man ski patroller tells me that doesn’t matter I still ducked a rope (which I didn’t) he radios in and they told him to just let me go. Learned a valuable lesson that day never to trust the virtual trail map…
 
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