VAIL SUCKS

[thetrailboss]

Anyone see that Vail reached an agreement with Park Cities ski patrol union. Vail l was kind enough to give ski patrollers $19 dollars per hour. Wow it took Vail that long to give employees 19 dollar an hour wage. My son makes close to that Washing dishes. Boy vail doesn't care about their employees at all. I know that the ski industry is having a difficult time filling jobs but maybe Vails problem is they are being extremely cheap with hour wages therefore no one will work for them.

I did not see that it was $19. I just saw that they agreed. The ski patrol was asking for starting wage of $17.

 

[thetrailboss]

Run eastern areas with western managers who do not understand eastern weather/market and this is the result. It happened at Killington when Nyberg was at the helm. At least Powdr figured it out fairly quick and put someone in charge who understands the east.

Yeah as Geoff said POWDR did not change for some time. Now it is destroying Snowbird.

 

[catskillman]

Run eastern areas with western managers who do not understand eastern weather/market and this is the result. It happened at Killington when Nyberg was at the helm. At least Powdr figured it out fairly quick and put someone in charge who understands the east.

remember that - he was at Hunter before Killington, Noone could understand that one

 

[eatskisleep]

Yeah as Geoff said POWDR did not change for some time. Now it is destroying Snowbird

Would be nice if we could go back to the days where all ski areas were independent.

 

[thetrailboss]

Would be nice if we could go back to the days where all ski areas were independent.

Right? I’m old enough to have seen one cycle of corporate consolidation and then collapse. ASC was the big deal and then imploded. It took about 10 years or so for Vail to emerge as the 300 lb gorilla that it is.

 

[FBGM]

 

[FBGM]

 

[Kingslug20]

 

[ThatGuy]

Mount Snow today…

 

[Quietman]

It's unbelievable to me they don't have Valley ready to go as the backup for the Rocket. With Valley and West, you can still ski 75% of the mountain. A bummer for sure, but worth staying.

Valley lift ran today! I waited until 3 to avoid the crowds and try on the new boots and it was nice to ski Pluto's.

 

[MadKitty]

Jeez! How long did that line take to get through?

 

[thetrailboss]

Mount Snow today…
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That is an Epic Experience right there.

 

[ThatGuy]

Jeez! How long did that line take to get through?

Don’t know saw it online, I’m not sadistic enough to go there on a weekend

 

[WWF-VT]

Mount Snow today…
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Ridiculous to deal with that shitshow. I lapped better terrain with likely better conditions and about a 5 chair wait in the singles line at Mt Ellen today.

 

[Kingslug20]

Hardly any wait at any lifts most of the morning at SB..12:30 called it a day as it got all scraped off..but a good 3.5 hours for sure..

 

[thetrailboss]

Tom Clyde: Look out for the union label

As I’m writing this on Thursday, news has come that the ski patrol union at Park City Mountain Resort and Vail Resorts have reached a tentative agreement on pay. The agreement now goes out to…

www.parkrecord.com

 

[trackbiker]

Mount Snow today…
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Bet they made a fortune on parking!

 

[hovercraft]

Bet they made a fortune on parking!

Thats just stupid

 

[Smellytele]

Waiting for DRjeff to say it wasn't that bad and shoot rainbows out of his ass.

 

[ss20]

Waiting for DRjeff to say it wasn't that bad and shoot rainbows out of his ass.

He's an optimist and I haven't skied Mount Snow since the Vail takeover....but for years did many weekend days there. Even on a day like today I bet Sundance and Ego Alley were under a ten chair wait...if they were running.