Magic Mountain ...

[Grassi21]

Wait...it just occurred to me after my last post - Magic *should* follow MRG's model exactly - ban snowboarders. Thats the ticket. Listen me out. Its got to be the snowboarders bringing Magic down. Think about it. All that natural snow being scraped off by those knuckle-draggers. Magic simply can't afford that with the limited snowmaking they have, and not to mention how narrow some of the trails are...yeah thats it. Oooh, also the snowboarders must be doing something wrong on the Red chair too. Same thing I heard happened on the single at MRG, snowboarders just couldn't handle it. Thats the reason the Red chair has been having problems lately. They are just too much trouble than they are worth.

I was thinking something similar. Making Magic a skiers only mountain along with the terrain could give it a unique edge in southern VT. But it might also hurt them as I have no idea how many of the customers are boarders. A seeded bump run would also be sweet!

So know the plan is to start limiting visits based on what is strapped to your feet. Good idea...

Edit: My sarcasm detector is in the shop. Just in case you were joking...

 

[deadheadskier]

So know the plan is to start limiting visits based on what is strapped to your feet. Good idea...

Edit: My sarcasm detector is in the shop. Just in case you were joking...

+1

I thought snafu was joking and Mr. Evil wasn't; then I thought maybe Mr. Evil was joking too, so I didn't say anything.

thanks for throwing out the bait Grassi

 

[snafu]

:wink: I was joking, since I snowboard and I love Magic, well half joking anyway. Prejudice is prejudice plain and simple. Don't call it "purism" or "tradition".

Anyhow I don't think VT can support 2 skier-only mountains, co-op or not. But look at it the other way around. Make it a snowboard-only mountain. That would get some press, and probably some big backers behind it. Jake Burton are you reading this? The first Burtons were made in Londonderry if memory serves me correctly. Makes sense to me.

Now all you skiers sit back and let that one settle in for a second...how would that make you feel? Seriously. Not too thrilled I bet.

 

[Marc]

Oh dear god, some please tell me we're not about to have a skier vs snowboarder/MRG ban discussion again.

 

[2knees]

Lock it up tight!!!!!

 

[Marc]

Lock it up tight!!!!!

 

[MR. evil]

I have nothng against boaders and don't mind sharing the mountain with them. I was just stating that it might be a way to make Magic unique in that area of VT. There are several other hills in the area and this would Certainly distinguish Magic from the rest. But it would be very risky financially.

 

[deadheadskier]

:wink: I was joking, since I snowboard and I love Magic, well half joking anyway. Prejudice is prejudice plain and simple. Don't call it "purism" or "tradition".

Anyhow I don't think VT can support 2 skier-only mountains, co-op or not. But look at it the other way around. Make it a snowboard-only mountain. That would get some press, and probably some big backers behind it. Jake Burton are you reading this? The first Burtons were made in Londonderry if memory serves me correctly. Makes sense to me.

Now all you skiers sit back and let that one settle in for a second...how would that make you feel? Seriously. Not too thrilled I bet.

quit your whining

just get some skis on man, MRG is the bomb

 

[snafu]

quit your whining

just get some skis on man, MRG is the bomb

Trolling my troll eh?;-)

Okay since I'm the one who kind of started this I will gracefully bow out on the MRG bashing for now(I'll save it for another post). Magic's issues are too important to devolve this thread into something else. If anyone needs an angel investor Magic would be it.

One other (small) gripe with Magic - the logo. Isn't Magic about 2000' short of having any sort of snowfields at the peak? Its false advertising. Maybe a new logo would turn everything around. Yeah, that would change everything

 

[Mapnut]

Speaking of the logo, Snafu, in Magic's home page http://www.magicmtn.com/ the logo is superimposed on a photo of a chairlift with nobody on it. On a beautiful sunny snowy day. Could they be trying a reverse Yogi Berra? "Come to Magic, because nobody else does!"

 

[wintersyndrome]

I have nothng against boaders and don't mind sharing the mountain with them. I was just stating that it might be a way to make Magic unique in that area of VT. There are several other hills in the area and this would Certainly distinguish Magic from the rest. But it would be very risky financially.

Being closed on a powder day would make them different from other mountains in southern vermont :roll:

The thing is Magic already is different than most mountains in southern vermont....it has steeps and gnarly terrain...banning boarders would just choke it off from half of the market

 

[2knees]

I remember seeing a decent amount of mono-skiers there in the 80's. Maybe they should ban snowboards AND traditional 2 plank skiers and make it a mono ski only mountain. I hear its about to make a raging comeback.

 

[Marc]

I remember seeing a decent amount of mono-skiers there in the 80's. Maybe they should ban snowboards AND traditional 2 plank skiers and make it a mono ski only mountain. I hear its about to make a raging comeback.

Would that include teleboards?

 

[2knees]

Would that include teleboards?

sometimes.

 

[Glenn]

Sweet!

 

[RustyGroomer]

:wink: I was joking, since I snowboard and I love Magic, well half joking anyway. Prejudice is prejudice plain and simple. Don't call it "purism" or "tradition".

Anyhow I don't think VT can support 2 skier-only mountains, co-op or not. But look at it the other way around. Make it a snowboard-only mountain. That would get some press, and probably some big backers behind it. Jake Burton are you reading this? The first Burtons were made in Londonderry if memory serves me correctly. Makes sense to me.

Now all you skiers sit back and let that one settle in for a second...how would that make you feel? Seriously. Not too thrilled I bet.

I have contacted Burton with no success but still have some possible avenues to try & get through.

Sorry Magic, but I agree the logo does indeed suck. It was made by old management, NOT the current guys. It's certainly not up to me & I don't want to step over any boundries here, but if it were up to me, i'd love to see the old one revived. Guy who did the art for the T-shirts made these.

Taken from my old trail map from the 70's

 

[wintersyndrome]

Sweet!

 

[2knees]

Sweet!

I used to throw a mean daffy on those babies.

 

[2knees]

and on a more serious note, i believe i read earlier that they had till the 4th of sept to collect on the shares. Will a decision on the upcoming season be made immediately thereafter based on the amount of shares that are actually bought or is there hope for some other means of survival. anyone got anything.....

I'm gettin nervous.

 

[Glenn]

I used to throw a mean daffy on those babies.

Pics or it didn't happen..... :-o