Edd
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Bubble lift sounds like a poor man's gondola. I guess those lawsuits from the state are starting to take their toll!
You're joking but I always like to point out: bubble chair > gondola.
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Bubble lift sounds like a poor man's gondola. I guess those lawsuits from the state are starting to take their toll!
You're joking but I always like to point out: bubble chair > gondola.
You're joking but I always like to point out: bubble chair > gondola.
How so? Why? Gondolas are nice and fully enclosed. A bubble chair you still have some elements and cold you are exposed to while a gondola is enclosed, so no wind and you can take off your skis/board and relax.
Gondolas have their place, but I don't think this would be it. The hassle of taking skis/snowboard off every time for a 5 minute ride = bah!!! Now if you got a lift that's double the length and is also needed for foot traffic, then a gondola makes sense. If the lift is primarily for skiing I'd go with the bubble every time.
How so? Why? Gondolas are nice and fully enclosed. A bubble chair you still have some elements and cold you are exposed to while a gondola is enclosed, so no wind and you can take off your skis/board and relax.
Again, these aren't people worried about getting in as many runs as they can and ripping up the best terrain they can. It is about a social experience and being able to be alone with their families and other rich people.
Not that I am in any way supporting this kind of ridiculous expense. Even if I had unlimited money I wouldn't spend it on a membership like this. However, I don't think it's necessarily fair to assume that the motivation for these people to join the club is a malevolent one. There are certainly going to be some snobs there for sure, but I think for the majority of the people buying memberships there it's different than trying to avoid other people who are not members of the 1%.
There are different motivations to join a fancy country club than simply to turn your nose at others who can't afford it. From what I've heard many of the members ski elsewhere in the area and are even pretty avid skiers.
they certainly wouldn't be signing up for a club like this at an inferior mountain.
Just what exactly makes this an inferior mountain?
Any mountain with snow is superior in my book
I had lots of fun at the "Stack in the early 90s when you could ski there or Snow on the same ticket.
Show me a gondola in existance that are in any way "luxurious"? I certainly don't know of any.I'll never go and don't really care. But, a gondola is or can be more luxurious than a chair lift. I'm picturing the Maybach of gondolas, haha.
Show me a gondola in existance that are in any way "luxurious"? I certainly don't know of any.
It "can be" more luxurious but for the most part it never "is" any more luxurious than a typical chair!
While I've never skied in any private club mountains but I've skied in quite a few places in US and Europe where the rich and famous go skiing. None of those mountains I've been to have gondola that are anything but basic transports. So I'm extremely skeptical of Hermitage club would be any different. That is, if it even gets off the ground!
Show me a gondola in existance that are in any way "luxurious"? I certainly don't know of any.
It "can be" more luxurious but for the most part it never "is" any more luxurious than a typical chair!
While I've never skied in any private club mountains but I've skied in quite a few places in US and Europe where the rich and famous go skiing. None of those mountains I've been to have gondola that are anything but basic transports. So I'm extremely skeptical of Hermitage club would be any different. That is, if it even gets off the ground!
Gondolas have their place, but I don't think this would be it. The hassle of taking skis/snowboard off every time for a 5 minute ride = bah!!! Now if you got a lift that's double the length and is also needed for foot traffic, then a gondola makes sense. If the lift is primarily for skiing I'd go with the bubble every time.
Show me a gondola in existance that are in any way "luxurious"? I certainly don't know of any.
It "can be" more luxurious but for the most part it never "is" any more luxurious than a typical chair!
While I've never skied in any private club mountains but I've skied in quite a few places in US and Europe where the rich and famous go skiing. None of those mountains I've been to have gondola that are anything but basic transports. So I'm extremely skeptical of Hermitage club would be any different. That is, if it even gets off the ground!