VAIL SUCKS

[deadheadskier]

seriously = would you go climb an icy tower for s$$$ wages in the variable weather, definitely cold and wet.... so I could ski earlier??? I love to ski and have 40 days in so far, but I understand the life of a ski mountain employee and I would not do lift mantenace or snow makeing myself. It is way to dangerous and not worth the risk for s$$$ wages and my life

Very fair POV

But it wasn't always this way. And not all mountains still struggle with the tough operational stuff. Some still deliver and they typically aren't the big money corporately owned places.

 

[thebigo]

Forced to ski sunapee today, ending a two year vail boycot.

Was not terrible.

One question for the big pass crowd. Why do you people congregate at the top?

 

[catskillman]

agree - at Hunter this year the website/app have never been correct from day 1, I gave up for the most part. I hear it daily on the lift how it is so wrong....They have had gun hill open and groomed on days, yet the run has not been open all season. and it goes on and on....Not to mention the trails that hae been open that were so dangerous........WHY?????

 

[Kingslug20]

Just read a story about whistler...skier for 40 years there feels vail has destroyed the character of the place..lousy expensive food..poor grooming..broken lifts...
Typical

 

[doublediamond]

There’s areas that run their lifts at slow sped when they are making snow under them. That way there’s not a gun pointing at one chair coating it with feet of rime all night. You don’t need an operators sitting there all night to do so.

There’s also areas that have the snowmaking crew turn them on, ride them up, and shut them off when they get to the top.

When you have a detachable with parking rails, there’s no excuse to not take the chairs off line and run the rope all night so it doesn’t ice solid. The icing issues on detaches vs fixed grip lifts are due to the grips. That’s the whole purpose for installing the parking rails rather than just an emergency set off rail.

 

[Harvey]

1dog, please try and keep your participation in these discussions skiing focus. A very high percentage of your posts are about crowbarring in your political views.

We let some politics slide if it has some relation to skiing, but these comments you are making here have nothing to do with the sport.

Apologies for my part.

 

[deadheadskier]

No worries Harvey

 

[skiur]

Apologies for my part.

No problem with you political posts since your political views are the same as deadhead.

 

[deadheadskier]

No problem with you political posts since your political views are the same as deadhead.

Actually that's not it at all. It's about frequency. I'm not concerned about Harveys post because he rarely if ever makes political posts.

We let a ton of political posts slide no matter the point of view if they are infrequent from a particular member of the forum. It's when it becomes repetitive and a member appears to only be "here" to discuss politics when the purpose of the forum is about skiing and other outdoor pursuits that it becomes problematic. Those posts / members tend to get reported with the expectation that the moderator team addresses the issue.

Thankfully that's pretty rare these days. Hasn't really been a problem since we got past the height of Covid.

 

[JimG.]

Good to see Vail still sucks.

It can't snow soon enough for me.

 

[AdironRider]

Every snowmaker I've ever known doesn't ski. They are typically summer job holders (LOTS of landscapers) that do it because the money (notably for the overtime) is pretty good and ultimately you still get lots of downtime when the weather isn't conducive.

 

[Kingslug20]

That....is interesting...

 

[thetrailboss]

Sounds. EPIC...

I think you mean IKONic.

 

[thetrailboss]

Back on topic….Vail’s numbers are UP.

https://investors.vailresorts.com/news-releases/news-release-details/vail-resorts-reports-certain-ski-season-metrics-season-date-25

WTAF?

 

[Kingslug20]

Of course they are...

 

[Bosco DaSkia]

Every snowmaker I've ever known doesn't ski. They are typically summer job holders (LOTS of landscapers) that do it because the money (notably for the overtime) is pretty good and ultimately you still get lots of downtime when the weather isn't conducive.

Bullshit.



Fact.

 

[RichT]

Just read a story about whistler...skier for 40 years there feels vail has destroyed the character of the place..lousy expensive food..poor grooming..broken lifts...
Typical

I read it too, he could of just said "all vail resorts".................

 

[RichT]

Saw this on Hunter's FB page this morning........... It had to do with Hunter taking down pictures of the "Thin Blue Line" flags at the NYPD races held there the other day. Not sure if it is true or not, but looks legit.

 

[Smellytele]

My son is a sheriff’s deputy in Colorado and I find it offensive for them to take it down. Ask Burlington VT how it’s going with defunding the police.

 

[hovercraft]

Burlington is a shit show. Bunch of progressives that have no idea WTF is going on.