BenedictGomez
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I'm bad at comparisons, but it feels slightly bigger than the old Canyons cabins it's replacing. They had an old cabin down by the umbrella bar as an example because they sold them off.
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VAIL SUCKS
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machski
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Well, let me phrase it differently. When you stepped out the cabin n, did you have to duck duck an to ovoid hitting your head?
BenedictGomez
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Yes; I'm a smidge shorter than 6 foot tall & I couldn't just walk on.
drjeff
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Nope.You're like Vail's secret marketing weapon
Just figured that since I love this sport, taking some time over the years to ask some questions of industry folks who I have been fortunate enough to get to know, and have an actual knowledge base (and really often like to share their knowledge base to others) as to what really goes into ski area operations from off season maintenance to lift construction to snowmaking and grooming and lift operations, made way more sense than ranting online about how things I really didn't know as much about as I thought I did, should be going.
Not a bad lifestyle choice to be curious more than being criticizing
Correct. Franz & Hans aren’t here yet…. Prob in 3-4 weeks once all the ground work is done
machski
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So likely just like K1's upgraded cabins, smaller height wise than normal to accommodate the old load/unload platforms from the old cabin setup.
Hope you and your family are all good, I know a tornado was in/ near your Ct hometown sat tonight
drjeff
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Thanks.
All fine on the home front. The storm that spun up the tornado yesterday was non tornadic when the center of it passed roughly 1.5 miles South of my house. Definitely got really dark and noisy for maybe 10 minutes, with some strong winds, and a quick 2" or so of rain fell, but not much worse than a typical strong thunderstorm
Flying in concrete today
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Just saw a post last night about the helicopter arriving. One also arrived at Sunday River to do their work.Flying in concrete today
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urungus
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I don’t believe so. Last year the announcement was on August 22, so it shouldn’t be too much longer
urungus
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Opening day press release. No northeast ski areas mentioned. Vail sucks !
I always laugh at the "Lift tickets will be limited again this year to preserve the guest experience at each resort." The upper limit is propbably so high that if they ever reached it you'd be "A-hole to belly button" going down the slopes.
BTW, thanks for the heads up..
BTW, thanks for the heads up..
Lift tickets are limited. Season passes are not. Nobody buys lift tickets.
machski
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List to the SSP with Mount Snow's GM. He said if they were to get a good string of cold days in October he'd light the system up and go for it.Opening day press release. No northeast ski areas mentioned. Vail sucks !
drjeff
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Yup, also said that Mount Snow will be the planned last Vail Resort in the East to close next season again (thank you mega Carinthia snow piles for that) and that they didn't reach day ticket sellout limits once last season.
I wish I could of handed Stuart a few questions to ask Brian for that Storm Skiing Podcast episode that just hit the free feed a few days ago. Actually listened to it last Friday morning when it dropped for paid subscribers.
And unlike Skiology Matt, Storm Skiing Podcast Stuart is well worth the subscription fee in my opinion!
BenedictGomez
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Exactly! It's a really funny faux Vail marketing flex that sounds great to the people who don't understand this, which is probably 3/4 of the market.
It's like catering PETA's Annual Convention and offering unlimited filet mignon.
jimmywilson69
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And the people that do buy day tickets probably puke when they see how expensive it is and never come back... Great marketing plan to grow the sport they have...
