A Little Stowe Birdie....

[snoseek]

You could buy passes for a family of four to Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, and Arapahoe Basin completely unlimited next season for the same as one pass at Stowe. With $$$ saved you could fly instead of drive.

Better yet you could make multiple trips to Utah and buy many many day tickets for overall much less money.

 

[snoseek]

maybe im strange but if it empties the mountain. i am all good with paying 90 on a powder day. there is nothing lift service on the east coast that has the same terrain so when it snow you will find me there.

I would much rather be at Saddleback for half the money and 1/10 of the people even after the riff raff is driven out.

 

[deadheadskier]

They managed to drum Mickey D's out of town....

and the porn shop :lol:

Well, they didn't drum the store out of town, but as soon as it went out of business the town quickly changed its zoning to not allow future stores of its kind. The articles in the local paper quoting some of the town's old Montreal jewish money elite, the people that essentially run the town, were quite comical for the six months or so that the shop was open.

 

[deadheadskier]

maybe im strange

...I wouldn't say strange; you just have the ability to regularly afford a $90 ticket.

I'm hopeful that with this 'getting rid of the riff raff' movement that the mountain doesn't exclude ski clubs from discount offers. I joined ACE specifically with Stowe in mind. Last year the tickets were $38 for club members. That I can afford. $85?? ....not so much.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

You could buy passes for a family of four to Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, and Arapahoe Basin completely unlimited next season for the same as one pass at Stowe. With $$$ saved you could fly instead of drive.

Better yet you could make multiple trips to Utah and buy many many day tickets for overall much less money.

Flying is a pain though..and the families buying season passes to Stowe most likely have a house/condo in or near Stowe..and want to spend time in the area.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I would much rather be at Saddleback for half the money and 1/10 of the people even after the riff raff is driven out.

Saddleback is a heck of alot farther than Stowe for most..and that area doesn't offer much Apres-Ski which is something that people look for..Stowe is a great ski-town...adjacent to a great mountain..If I have more than 2 days to ski..it'sthe first place I think about visiting.

 

[jarrodski]

haven't seen it yet, but I'd like to toast the Riff Raff! Here's for every goon, delinquint and dirty sock wearing mother - F-er who woke up to early in the morning, knocked "buffy" out of the way and got first chair on a stowe powder day. Here's another for everyone who's barfed off the tripple (i'll do two here haha) because the quad, gondi and double are all on wind hold. Another for every tailgating session that was front row, with 20 people, cooking egg sandwiches and washing down with shwilly brew, and then again, barfing off a lift after doing top to bottom laps. Eat me $2,000. what are you kidding?
Here's a double for every do-nut wheeled in the parking lot on the way into the lot, yielding yet more barf and more excitment for cliff drops and powder slashing.


Can't wait for them to close the boundries, cut more trees and pack powder on snow days.

 

[SkiDork]

I'm surprised everyone is taking this as the gospel truth. Rumors always fly on the intraweb. Maybe 10% of them actually occur.

 

[dropKickMurphy]

I would much rather be at Saddleback for half the money and 1/10 of the people even after the riff raff is driven out.

If their price goes to $90, Saddleback would have to raise their lift ticket by $5 to be half the price of Stowe.

Hell, for $90 you could ski Saddleback's uncrowded slopes all day then have enough left over for you and 2 dozen riff-raff friends to raise a PBR tallboy in the Swig N Smelt and toast the memory of the Kennabago T.

 

[dropKickMurphy]

Saddleback is a heck of alot farther than Stowe for most..and that area doesn't offer much Apres-Ski which is something that people look for..Stowe is a great ski-town...adjacent to a great mountain..If I have more than 2 days to ski..it'sthe first place I think about visiting.

With >2 days to ski, Stowe would be high on my list as well. As would the MRV (Bush and MRG).

After "discovering" Saddleback this year, though, my new favorite multi day destination just may be Rangely. It's an unpretentious place with absolutely spectacular scenery; as well as reasonably priced lodging and meals. 15 minutes to Saddleback and 45 minutes to Sugarloaf make it well worth the trip if you have > 2 days to ski. Particularly if 1 or more of those days is on a weekend...hit Saddleback on the weekend days, and the Loaf on the weekday. I'd rate the Loaf/Saddleback combo right up there with Bush/MRG.

 

[hardline]

...I wouldn't say strange; you just have the ability to regularly afford a $90 ticket.

I'm hopeful that with this 'getting rid of the riff raff' movement that the mountain doesn't exclude ski clubs from discount offers. I joined ACE specifically with Stowe in mind. Last year the tickets were $38 for club members. That I can afford. $85?? ....not so much.

i just saw the ace club and that is fantastic especially for famillies because it is one of the nicest ski towns the east coast and famillies should be able to go there. there isn't day that goes by that i still don't take a minute to reflect on just how damm lucky i am to be able to have a job that lets me do some really cool stuff and get paid to do it.
i just hope there are ways for people that have families on this board to still enjoy an amazing place. its just the clueless people that no respect for nothing do i want in the woods with me. anybody that posts on this board as much as we do is dedicated and welcome with me on my travels in the woods.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I love playing tourguide at Stowe..I feel very fortunate to spend 4 years skiing Stowe several days a week...when I majored in skiing with a minor in college..lol

 

[hardline]

I love playing tourguide at Stowe..I feel very fortunate to spend 4 years skiing Stowe several days a week...when I majored in skiing with a minor in college..lol

+1

 

[billski]

I'm surprised everyone is taking this as the gospel truth. Rumors always fly on the intraweb. Maybe 10% of them actually occur.

WHAT ELSE WE GONNA WHINE ABOUT??? IT'S SUMMER, FOR PETES SAKE. Those face shots seem like a dream right now..........

 

[mattchuck2]

It can be negative for the middle class (housing cost increases) or positive (more jobs to service upper class recreational, residential, and social pursuits in which a limited number of people participate but a lot of people are needed to service). Etc..

Yeah . . . Unless all of the service jobs go to Argentinians and other "foreign workers".

haven't seen it yet, but I'd like to toast the Riff Raff! Here's for every goon, delinquint and dirty sock wearing mother - F-er who woke up to early in the morning, knocked "buffy" out of the way and got first chair on a stowe powder day. Here's another for everyone who's barfed off the tripple (i'll do two here haha) because the quad, gondi and double are all on wind hold. Another for every tailgating session that was front row, with 20 people, cooking egg sandwiches and washing down with shwilly brew, and then again, barfing off a lift after doing top to bottom laps. Eat me $2,000. what are you kidding?
Here's a double for every do-nut wheeled in the parking lot on the way into the lot, yielding yet more barf and more excitment for cliff drops and powder slashing.


Can't wait for them to close the boundries, cut more trees and pack powder on snow days.

Now HERE'S a good post! Cheers to that guy in Carhartts, That dude in the Orange Hunting hat, that Joey with the new haircut drinking Heinekins and Jager Bombs, that dude with the big bushy beard and his buddy who doesn't start skiing until hunting season is over, that guy on skis that are older than I am.

These people are what make skiing great. They're why every lift ride is a completely unique experience. God knows what kind of crazy psycho you're going to ride up with next. And a lot of those guys are based on people I ski with. It's amazing how the sport can bring such a strange mix of people together, and by popping up the price of a season pass, you lose a little bit more diversity in an already whitewashed pastime.

 

[deadheadskier]

I love playing tourguide at Stowe..I feel very fortunate to spend 4 years skiing Stowe several days a week...when I majored in skiing with a minor in college..lol

I majored and minored in skiing while at UVM. College was a chore to do when I couldn't ski

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I majored and minored in skiing while at UVM. College was a chore to do when I couldn't ski

If I wasn't a skier..I have no clue where I would have gone to college...probably Harvard...lol..

 

[deadheadskier]

If I wasn't a skier..I have no clue where I would have gone to college...probably Harvard...lol..

Oh, I tried to do the 'nerd' thing and go to the best academic school I got into. I went to Skidmore for a year, which I had no business getting into. At that time, there were over eleven thousand applicants for a freshman class of 500 students. I had no car to get to the mountain and pretty much freaked about not being able to ski and dropped out to become a beach/ski bum. After two years of that, I went to UVM with hopes of becoming a 'professional' ski bum. Still debatable whether I'm a professional or not, but I did have a BLAST for four years skiing whenever I could at Stowe while at Groovy UV.

 

[ckofer]

I'm surprised everyone is taking this as the gospel truth. Rumors always fly on the intraweb. Maybe 10% of them actually occur.

Regardless of the specifics, there does seem to be larger division between "luxury" mountains and value mountains.

 

[campgottagopee]

haven't seen it yet, but I'd like to toast the Riff Raff! Here's for every goon, delinquint and dirty sock wearing mother - F-er who woke up to early in the morning, knocked "buffy" out of the way and got first chair on a stowe powder day. Here's another for everyone who's barfed off the tripple (i'll do two here haha) because the quad, gondi and double are all on wind hold. Another for every tailgating session that was front row, with 20 people, cooking egg sandwiches and washing down with shwilly brew, and then again, barfing off a lift after doing top to bottom laps. Eat me $2,000. what are you kidding?
Here's a double for every do-nut wheeled in the parking lot on the way into the lot, yielding yet more barf and more excitment for cliff drops and powder slashing.


Can't wait for them to close the boundries, cut more trees and pack powder on snow days.

I think I love you:smile: