VAIL SUCKS

[jimmywilson69]

to be fair when I was at JF on Sunday there was no snow on any other trails other than the 2 T2B routes they had open. How much did they get and how light was it in the poconos? Even with all the sleet we got in southcentral PA, it was still a pretty light snow.

 

[asnowmobiler]

My deck about 5 miles south (crows fly) of BB. Some sleet may have mixed in because it was not easy clearing my driveway.

 

[thebigo]

Crotched blew snow all day through the storm, guns were off today.

Does anyone know how the priority days work when they get in the seven day range?

I booked 12/26 as one of my seven priority days. Does the day get added back into the till when week of bookings open or only on the 27th?

 

[thebigo]

Leftovers at the crotch this AM:

 

[kingslug]

mmmm...leftovers......

 

[da-bum]

yes the lines got long but they packed the 6 pack and it went pretty fast.

It seems to be on who is manning the lines on the six pack. Some let small groups go on their own, and let singles have the option to let another single join in, which frequently, the single would decline. This would result in lines queuing up, even though there are not that many people for that day. Then you have others workers that pairs up two with two, three with one, etc. Always asking if the individual groups don't mind. You sometimes get people who wants to ride by themselves, more likely out of selfish reason because either they don't have their mask up or spread out as soon as they are on the lift.

I love powder. But not enough to take a chance of multiple rides on a packed chair, even an open-aired one. The line also looked too crowded

If they pack 2 groups in a chair, they allow a minimum of 2 seats in between the groups. But with some riders, they spread across the chair, effectively leaving one seat or less between groups. I guess you could be one of those paranoid group that insists on riding the lift on your own, or constantly swing your pole while on the line so nobody could get near you.

 

[Funky_Catskills]

I just went to the Northface lot to ride at Hunter... It was closed... dammit..
I went to the main lot - it was packed. Felt like a Jimmy Buffett show parking lot with people tailgating.
The person who checked me in told me that the Northface parking is NOT opening this year.. This made me super unhappy as all Vail has done is talk about spreading people out but they funnel people up the 6 pack in a line that has many people not wearing masks... ABD I'm not walking halfway up the hill to get in a single line WAAAAY longer than the other lines.. The northface lot would help spread people out as they promised. I'm seriously thinking about a refund. I'll give it a couple more chances but I will not put myself in a packed line with maskless people.

I give Hunter 2 weeks before it gets shut down...

 

[jimmywilson69]

Makes no sense to keep that lot closed... They obviously don't want to staff it

 

[njdiver85]

Mount Snow today - more Epic Fails . . .

1. Failure to get Lift 11 open before 10:15am resulted in massive lines for Lift 11 (bubble chair).
2. Failure to staff the ticket window sufficiently. The line to pick up day tickets was like nothing I've ever seen in 8 years at Mount Snow. The line extended from the ticket window queue all the way to the back parking lot, and down the hill. By my guess, about 200 people in line as of 11 AM. There is no excuse for this given they knew exactly how many day ticket reservations they were going to have. Thank god I have a season pass and don't need to wait on a line like that.
3. More on Lift 11 - continued stoppages for what appear to be mechanical issues.

 

[Edd]

Leftovers at the crotch this AM: View attachment 49757View attachment 49758View attachment 49759View attachment 49760View attachment 49761View attachment 49762View attachment 49764View attachment 49765View attachment 49766

Damn, that’s awesome.

 

[mbedle]

Crotched blew snow all day through the storm, guns were off today.

Does anyone know how the priority days work when they get in the seven day range?

I booked 12/26 as one of my seven priority days. Does the day get added back into the till when week of bookings open or only on the 27th?

Not sure exactly what you are asking. You have 7 priority days reserved, if you use one, you can go-ahead and book another priority day. The difference between them and the week of reservations, is that you can reserve priority days at any time in the future. For instance, I have a two week trip set for late January. I reserved the first 7 days as priority. After the first day of skiing, I am going to go ahead and reserve the first day of a second two week trip I have in later February using the available priority day (this will continue after each day that I ski so that by the end of week on my first trip, my second trips first week will be reserved. The second week of each trip will be reserved using week of reservation.

 

[thetrailboss]

Looks like someone needs $500 million more.....

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[thetrailboss]

Not sure exactly what you are asking. You have 7 priority days reserved, if you use one, you can go-ahead and book another priority day. The difference between them and the week of reservations, is that you can reserve priority days at any time in the future. For instance, I have a two week trip set for late January. I reserved the first 7 days as priority. After the first day of skiing, I am going to go ahead and reserve the first day of a second two week trip I have in later February using the available priority day (this will continue after each day that I ski so that by the end of week on my first trip, my second trips first week will be reserved. The second week of each trip will be reserved using week of reservation.

So now I know how Snowbird came up with this "7 day" system for its parking. That, too, is failing. One can't get parking now on a weekend day until the end of March. Only Snowbird could screw that up that badly....

 

[skiur]

So now I know how Snowbird came up with this "7 day" system for its parking. That, too, is failing. One can't get parking now on a weekend day until the end of March. Only Snowbird could screw that up that badly....

I've been very happy with the "7 day" parking system at Killington. Have not had issues reserving any days over a week out. Including weekend.

 

[thetrailboss]

I've been very happy with the "7 day" parking system at Killington. Have not had issues reserving any days over a week out. Including weekend.

That's what I don't get! I can make a parking reservation for Killington for NEXT WEEK but NOTHING for Snowbird. The only thing that is different is that John Cumming is running Snowbird while he handed Killington to a qualified manager (after screwing everything up there).

 

[BenedictGomez]

Looks like someone needs $500 million more.....

Nothing to see here folks. Just another 1/2 Billion dollars.

Vail Resorts intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes.

I predict Vail's going to set the all-time record for most expensive slice of pizza.

 

[thetrailboss]

Nothing to see here folks. Just another 1/2 Billion dollars.

"General corporate purposes."

 

[BenedictGomez]

"General corporate purposes."

I hear printer paper prices have gone way up.

 

[asnowmobiler]

Mount Snow today - more Epic Fails . . .

1. Failure to get Lift 11 open before 10:15am resulted in massive lines for Lift 11 (bubble chair).
2. Failure to staff the ticket window sufficiently. The line to pick up day tickets was like nothing I've ever seen in 8 years at Mount Snow. The line extended from the ticket window queue all the way to the back parking lot, and down the hill. By my guess, about 200 people in line as of 11 AM. There is no excuse for this given they knew exactly how many day ticket reservations they were going to have. Thank god I have a season pass and don't need to wait on a line like that.
3. More on Lift 11 - continued stoppages for what appear to be mechanical issues.

I just got a call from a buddy skiing at Jack Frost, he said they had a line of almost 200 people waiting to get tickets. He also said the lift lines were getting so long that he left at 11:30 and having basically only three short runs open, it was not worth staying. He drove 3 hours to get there

 

[Mainer]

The triple at attitash was stopping a lot today, definitely concerning. They have blasted a ton of snow, which is nice. Kinda sucks to have take your boots off to drive between attitash and bear peak if you want to ski the 2 open trails. Skiing was nothing special, scratchy for the small amount of people there. Tomorrow should be crowded and icy, unless they can open more terrain