ericfromMA/NH/VT
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Give them a few more weeks Vail will top this.
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VAIL SUCKS
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eatskisleep
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Can you share the pic? I don’t have Facebook
RichT
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Today at Hunter.............I have NEVER seen it this bad.
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Well now we get to compare Alterra (well, KSL - Camelback) and Vail's response to the independent operators (recently, Beech and Magic) to chairlift accidents.
I'd prefer to have a lot less data to work with.
I'd prefer to have a lot less data to work with.
FBGM
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Jesus the ski world is a dumpster fire of all time right now
Edd
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Recent quote from me.
PAabe
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Vail has been a shitshow in PA today apparently:
Lines for miles to get into whitetail and Jack Frost, and hours long lines guest services and the lifts for WROD
Vail apparently forgot about their youth program scheduled in mornings at Big Boulder, apparently everyone showed up and nobody was there because BB doesn't open until 3pm this year
Worth noting that, as the case elsewhere, Vail's competitors have far more terrain open. Bear Creek for example, father southeast and lower than JFBB, went from 0% to 100% since Thursday. Temperatures below freezing all week and several inches of natural snow here and yet snowmaking equipment has barely been observed running. These Vail areas here are capable of really throwing out massive amounts of snow in weather like this (but they are not)
Lines for miles to get into whitetail and Jack Frost, and hours long lines guest services and the lifts for WROD
Vail apparently forgot about their youth program scheduled in mornings at Big Boulder, apparently everyone showed up and nobody was there because BB doesn't open until 3pm this year
Worth noting that, as the case elsewhere, Vail's competitors have far more terrain open. Bear Creek for example, father southeast and lower than JFBB, went from 0% to 100% since Thursday. Temperatures below freezing all week and several inches of natural snow here and yet snowmaking equipment has barely been observed running. These Vail areas here are capable of really throwing out massive amounts of snow in weather like this (but they are not)
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Nothing to see here folks
Sorry, can't copy the Tweet. Wildcat only tweeted out
The Snowcat Triple is closed for the remainder of the day for maintenance
Sorry, can't copy the Tweet. Wildcat only tweeted out
The Snowcat Triple is closed for the remainder of the day for maintenance
elks
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Crotched doing a big snowmaking push again today. Guns on all day throughout the mountain including new terrain like Pluto getting massive whales and likely opening soon. 
I wonder how many people will buy a pass next year to do this again.Vail has been a shitshow in PA today apparently:
Lines for miles to get into whitetail and Jack Frost, and hours long lines guest services and the lifts for WROD
Vail apparently forgot about their youth program scheduled in mornings at Big Boulder, apparently everyone showed up and nobody was there because BB doesn't open until 3pm this year
Worth noting that, as the case elsewhere, Vail's competitors have far more terrain open. Bear Creek for example, father southeast and lower than JFBB, went from 0% to 100% since Thursday. Temperatures below freezing all week and several inches of natural snow here and yet snowmaking equipment has barely been observed running. These Vail areas here are capable of really throwing out massive amounts of snow in weather like this (but they are not)
So Inclined
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Long lift lines at Hunter aren't unheard of, but it was friggin' nuts today.
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Chair Detaches from Wildcat Lift
Photo credit: Mic Murphy A triple chair fell near the base of Wildcat Mountain’s Snowcat lift this afternoon, sending one person to the hospital. The lift involved is a 1974 Riblet servicing …
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With lines like this why should Vail do anything different?
IceEidolon
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Timberline, Blue, and Tussey have all dropped more chairs than that, but in single incidents that hit more chairs at once. Two dropped chairs plus the Beech fountain isn't a great look for sure.
WROD usually means white road of death, a narrow strip of snowmaking surrounded by rocks/grass/dirt/mud.
WROD usually means white road of death, a narrow strip of snowmaking surrounded by rocks/grass/dirt/mud.
Ski2LiveLive2Ski
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As nuts as the base area chairs were at Hunter (after 915 - they were OK earlier), the F chair never had more than an 8 minute line for a single and the North lift was under a minute into the afternoon. I got 13 runs in from 845-1 and only waited in that crazy line once,.after stopping for food/bathroom from 1030-11. That 11 am line was about 25 min for a single so I did not come back to the base tip I was at a stage where I was ready to call it quits if the line was bad.
Makes sense there were huge crowds given what a let down holiday skiing had been, that it had just snowed big in NYC/NJ, and that Sunday is gonna be crappy weather for skiing. This was the day for everyone to come out.
Makes sense there were huge crowds given what a let down holiday skiing had been, that it had just snowed big in NYC/NJ, and that Sunday is gonna be crappy weather for skiing. This was the day for everyone to come out.
White Ribbon of Death. Eastern term for limited early season terrain availability
