Lunch on the Mtn?

[jimmywilson69]

At my local mountain I will typically go all season (20+ days/trips) without setting foot in the lodge. it's 10 miles from home and it doesn't make sense to pay them my money.

When I'm on a ski vacation, it depends. when I've gone out west, we typically gorge ourselves with a huge breakfast at the rental condo/house in the morning then snack throuhout the day, with apres aftwerwords. when I'm in New England, I have brought our own lunch and bought in the lodge.

 

[catskills]

I often wonder if resorts would make more money if they lowered their food prices. With lower food prices would they sell more food and would they sell more lift tickets? I doubt lower food prices would sell more lift tickets. Then again you never know. There could be a niche market for some sliders.

 

[bigbog]

Sandwiches, nectarine(s), various other fruit....but I usually end up eating inside until about late February @Sugarloaf.

 

[HowieT2]

bring my own beverages and snacks. usually buy something I share with the wife.

 

[Riverskier]

I typically skip lunch and will eat on the way up and the way back. A few times a season I will buy something on mountain though, if I am starving for some reason. The Peak Lodge at SR has pretty good food for a decent value. A couple beers at the bar are part of every ski day though.

 

[WoodCore]

Most always bring my lunch from home. A sandwich, chips, drink and a thermos of hot soup.

 

[rocojerry]

try to bring lunch, probably succeed 60% of the time.... usually depends on the weekend, if we made a grocery run for the weekend or near the end of the week.....

 

[WWF-VT]

90% of the time we pack a lunch and just buy drinks at the mountain. It costs way too much to buy at the mountain for a family of four.

 

[Nick]

When I was younger we always brown-bagged it. Recently I've gotten lazy and just buy lunch. That said, when I eventually have some kids, that might change my perspective. It gets proportionally more expensive I'm sure as you start throwing in several young'ens

 

[x10003q]

90% of the time we pack a lunch and just buy drinks at the mountain. It costs way too much to buy at the mountain for a family of four.

This.

Sometimes when I am alone I will purchase lunch on the mountain. Out west in awesome conditions I will eat a bag of beef jerky during the entire day rather than stop for a sit down lunch.

 

[Kerovick]

sandwich and a couple of beers in the backpack

 

[ceo]

Used to always buy lunch, but that got expensive when the kid started skiing, so last season I started brown bagging it and that works better. Sandwich for each of us, plus an extra in case anyone's extra hungry, plus carrot sticks or something and a thermos of OJ. Means we're banished to the Peabody Lodge basement, but all the other cheapskate families are there too, so that's fine.

Still have the now-traditional après-ski hot chocolate (for him) and beer (for me), though.

 

[hammer]

Usually about a 50/50 split, although we tend to bring our own beverages most of the time. We usually bring the supplies and make our sandwiches...sometimes we do BLTs.

 

[Nick]

sandwich and a couple of beers in the backpack

nice sig :lol:

 

[mlkrgr]

I always stuff a sandwich and some clif bars in my coat along with a bottle or two of water. I eat a hearty breakfast to start the day and some trail mix right before I start skiing if there's a sizable gap of time between breakfast and when I start skiing. Very rarely do I break down and buy a hot chocolate.

 

[Nick]

Liquid lunch:

Just wanted to say, this flask made it to the FB page for the thread

http://www.facebook.com/alpinezn

 

[KD7000]

When I'm with friends or by myself, I always bring a lunch and save some money for post-ride beer. When I'm with my kids, we always bring lunch and save some money for post-ski hot chocolates.

Except my daughter has some kind of magical love for the chicken and fries at Wachusett; she insists on that for dinner when we go night skiing.

 

[frapcap]

Being on the road by 5am means breakfast is usually 2 egg mcmuffins and a 1/2 gallon of OJ. It holds me pretty solid until about 1pm, but starting the day that early makes it tough to consider skipping lunch. If/when I do stop its for something (relatively) nutritious and caloric.

A bread bowl and chili will set you straight the rest of the day until you can get to the liquid wheat in the trunk of the car in the parking lot after hitting the slopes!

 

[Black Phantom]

Being on the road by 5am means breakfast is usually 2 egg mcmuffins and a 1/2 gallon of OJ. It holds me pretty solid until about 1pm, but starting the day that early makes it tough to consider skipping lunch. If/when I do stop its for something (relatively) nutritious and caloric.

A bread bowl and chili will set you straight the rest of the day until you can get to the liquid wheat in the trunk of the car in the parking lot after hitting the slopes!

I would think that you need to make a stop before 1:00 with all of that liquid.

 

[frapcap]

I would think that you need to make a stop before 1:00 with all of that liquid.

Haha, when you ski in the woods, the world is your urinal.