x10003q
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The reset will come when they have to replace/refurbish all the old high speed lifts plus the weight of the debt.
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The ALTERRA SUCKS Thread
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Tremblant this weekend….
KustyTheKlown
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tremblant is always this way
i was shocked by how reasonable stratton was on saturday. 34k vert, so the lines couldnt be that bad.
18k today, but home by 5:15
i was shocked by how reasonable stratton was on saturday. 34k vert, so the lines couldnt be that bad.
18k today, but home by 5:15
slatham
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Ok that’s a serious lift line. But it’s a little deceiving as it’s actually 2 lift lines. That Mass a people is not waiting for 1 lift.
BenedictGomez
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Deer Valley today (not my pic, taken from a PC forum)
kingslug
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Not..a fucking chance....ever..
slatham
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Deer Valley limits ticket sales, makes IKON make reso's. What's the story behind this? Wind holds? Lift down?I don't think DV has avy issues.
crystalmountainskier
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The new six pack at East Village feeds right into this high speed quad. Probably time for an upgrade, though there will be other ways out of the new village next year.
Sundance week and a new area open for folks to explore.
kingslug
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Yeah..explore the liftline area..
We were at Deer Valley a couple of weekends ago. That line at the Sultan lift forms from all the skiers coming up the new bubble chair. Sultan is the only way to get over to the main resort from the east village so this lift gets backed up on busy weekends.
Next year when the rest of Deer Valley East opens up that line won't look the way it does now.
Rather than waiting in that single file line from the east village side, we skied over to the main line and got on to the singles line there. It took about 10 minutes daily to get on that lift through the main singles line. By the afternoon the lines on Sultan would turn normal looking.
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Damn. We were at Solitude for vacation week, skied one day at PC and it was a shit show
Mon scene, 4 days in a row at Solitude ski right on ever lift. Maybe waited for 2-3 groups 1’or 2 times. 6-8” almost daily. Glad we didn’t stay in PC and ski there.
BenedictGomez
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Did you stay at the new hotel (Grand Hyatt DV)?
Yes and it is a beautiful property, although I probably wouldn't stay there again until the village gets built out a little more. The hotel has one restaurant and coffee shop which are fine but that's it. You really have to go into town if you want to eat out while your in the east village.
On another note, we stumbled on a placed called Le Depot during our visit this time. It opened a few weeks ago and I'd say that it's instantly become the best restaurant in Park City.
The Sultan lift was the only line we saw during our 4 ski days there. The Empire Lift at times had a 5 minute wait but for the most part every other lift we just skied right on to.
Not that DV is my favorite place to ski but other than Sultan this visit I've never really waited in lines at DV. Park City on the other hand can be a nightmare at times with lift lines. I do like the skiing at Park City better though.
That is a major change as Sultan never had a line before. Hell, pre-IKON Deer Valley never had any lines anywhere. That was a key selling point.
My Alta-Bird pass has two DV days on it (midweek). I went on Monday. Sure, the terrain and lifts are all the same (except for East Village) but man has the vibe really changed and not for the better. Lots of "new money" snobbery that we'd see at Canyons/PCMR as DV was the "old money" who were really laid back. Almost every lift ride was silent when I shared a lift. No conversations. I saw a group of skiers, in expensive waterproof ski gear, "reject" a chair because it had snow on it while the line built behind them. At Sultan, a family stopped the line and let multiple chairs pass so that they could arrange themselves for the four minute ride. We eventually told them to move it. The calibur of skiers has also dropped significantly.
There were more detachable lifts under construction than trails open on the expansion. The number of pointless new lifts and snowmaking infrastructure was crazy and really upsetting considering that other Alterra resorts, like Sugarbush, have lifts that can barely operate.
I rode up the lift with a current employee. He was lamenting at how corporate things are now and said that a lot of staff left. DV now has job postings. Pre-Alterra there was a line just to even apply. Even then they turned a lot of folks away. Not anymore.
But hey, it's IKONic now!
Edd
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Oh, what the actual fuck.
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I can't speak to DV, never skied there. PC was good though, only spent a day but skied wall to wall at hit up a good bit of it. But I will say, Solitude blew it away in almost every way possible. Solitude was incredible and maybe we just hit it at the right time but zero lift lines. But oddly, the lots were full too. PC was like being at Disney, no thanks. Granted not much to do at Solitude, but that's ok, we were there to ski eat sleep. Granted, never skied Alta or Snowbird yet, so can't compare but we had a total blast skiing basically everything Solitude had. Only bummer was the East side of the Canyon wasn't open that would have been sweet, but had plenty of 8" pow runs to keep me grinnin for years.
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