NY Times on Mad River

[Bumpsis]

Nice article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/09/travel/escapes/09ski.ready.html?pagewanted=1&8dpc&_r=1

 

[riverc0il]

Restoring the single-chair to its famed original look was the decision of the roughly 1,700 shareholders of Mad River Glen, the cooperative of skiers who annually pay about $1,800 each to own and govern the mountain.

OOPS! $1800 annually? wow, that could certainly add up. while MRG does have payment plans for shares, annual payments on the payment plan certainly aren't that expensive! :lol: a share actually costs $1750 (not that i have been considering it or anything...). funny how that seemed obviously absurd to me but the written and editor of a NY based newspaper didn't notice the substantial error.
http://madriverglen.com/coop/

Since Mad River Glen attracts only 85,000 skier visits a year, you will very likely be on the mountain alone, staring down twisting, narrow trails unlike any you have probably ever seen. That’s when you realize that this is what skiing was like at the beginning of the lift-access era, in the 1930s and 1940s.

not to get nit picky (okay, i am), but i have never thought of what MRG offers as being anything like the earn your turns only aspects of the 30s and 40s in which even the biggest of areas only had a handful of trees, many mountains only having one or two. not even MRG can boost narrow original CCC trails like the bruce, sherburne, or taft, etc. with perhaps exception of lower antelope.

any ways, great article. i am really being picky with my two above omments, pretty rare for a media outlet to get as much right as they did and come close to capturing the spirit of an area like MRG without hyping it.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

even though it would have cost $300,000 less to install a modern double-chair.

They're a different breed there for sure. You have to admire that.

 

[cbcbd]

Cool article, I enjoyed it

 

[Brettski]

"get the rope"

lol

 

[Paul]

GAWD, I can't wait to get up there!!!!

 

[skiprob]

The last line in the article

Did anyone notice the last line?

MRG "Ski it while you can"

That was kind of foreboding.

 

[cbcbd]

Did anyone notice the last line?

MRG "Ski it while you can"

That was kind of foreboding.

Eh, that's just part of journalism. I have a feeling they'll be around for a long time.

 

[Big Game]

Is the price of a share related to the amount of shares sold? If so, how many chickens in that MRG coop?

FLAME ON!!!!

(Not really. winky winky bok bok)

 

[Bumpsis]

"get the rope"

lol

yeah, I cought that too. Funny.