jaytrem
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Ouch, I'm guessing that's one line to download Gunbarrel and one for the Tram. I wonder what the download capacity on Gunbarrel is?
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VAIL SUCKS
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eatskisleep
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downloading needed because lower mountain isn’t open yet?? Sorry never been there
jaytrem
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Correct, looking at the ski report I don't see anything open in that area. There's only 1 intermediate way down along with what is typically steep bumps. They'll probably pull your pass if you ski down to the snow line and walk the rest of the way.
They have a pretty cool bump race in that area (yes it's a race, no points for style)...
Gunbarrel 25 returns to South Lake Tahoe, spectators invited
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The Gunbarrel 25 will be returning for its 19th year at Heavenly Mountain Resort from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 25. The Gunbarrel 25 is a popular bump...
www.tahoedailytribune.com
So I just came back from Alta. While driving down LCC I met a brand new Audi with a license plate that read, "SKI VAIL". I panicked because I thought it was Rob Katz! Holy shit I hope that he is not scoping out his next acquisition!
catskillman
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Hunter lost most of their snowmakers to Belleayre over the last 2 seasons.
They talked the head groomer, who retired after 30+ years, into coming back to help out when he was in town. He showed up for work the other day, and was told that his pay was being cut. He turned around and walked out the door!
Place is a mess, I have been stuck on the 6 pack 3 times this season. Each over 30 minutes. For the last several years the issue has been on tower 13. Think they would of fixed it by now
BenedictGomez
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All these various geographically diverse "Vail Fails" are intriguing.
BenedictGomez
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Colorado?
Its pretty normal for Heavenly to go super late on Upper Cal and not ski down to lake level. How Stagecoach/Boulder lodge is open is beyond me. The mtn is set up super weird and complex. So easy for people to get separated/lost.
Utah ironically
So I just came back from Alta. While driving down LCC I met a brand new Audi with a license plate that read, "SKI VAIL". I panicked because I thought it was Rob Katz! Holy shit I hope that he is not scoping out his next acquisition!
“In the name of inclusivity the stormtroopers and I are looking to conquer a new front and open it to all forms of snow sliding…”
joshua segal
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For similar reasons, there were all kinds of rumors 3-years ago that Vail wanted to divest of many of the smaller areas in their portfolio. There were rumors to the one about Wildcat recently discussed on this thread, that a bunch of local investors wanted to buy Crotched Mountain from Vail.
The reason that some people thought that Vail might do that was that Crotched does only about 100K skier visits per year with gross cash flow for a season under $10M; and that a big corporation like MTN (Vail) wouldn't find CM to be an interesting place for a large corporation to own. Furthermore, CM is a local hill in a corporation filled with destination resorts.
Despite all the talk on now 507 pages of this thread, I don't see Vail in financial difficulties and if they were, selling CM would not yield them much money. (Neither would Wildcat.) Vail would be far more likely to sell off one of their large western resorts if they needed cash to pay bills. If and when that happens, I will worry about the solvency of MTN.
BenedictGomez
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I imagine Vail wont initially sell off properties to "pay bills", but rather to aid gross margins. I bet some of these little properties arent very profitable (if at all).
In terms of their debt, it appears none of it is near-term, it all starts to kick-in starting in 2025.
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today at Hunter the 6 pack famously failed again. They got it started, running at half speed and only loading every other chair.
30 minute lift line at least...can't wait until tomorrow after the snow storm...should be a real ss
I'm going to post this here.....
Are you not a Wall Street executive?
BenedictGomez
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The last time I worked on Wall Street, Moby Dick was a minnow, and I'm never going back.
BenedictGomez
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I noticed Vail removed the 3rd circular widget that used to display the percentage of terrain open.
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What if it's a rogue IT dude just fucking with us and Chief Rob hasn't noticed?
BenedictGomez
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I prefer to think it's a diabolical & intentional way for them to hide the fact that it's January & less than 1/2 their terrain isnt open.
I like to keep, The Empire vibes going.
urungus
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The second and third circular widget appear to be identical, 118 / 346 = 34 %, is the third widget supposed to be showing percentage of trails open or percentage of acreage open ?
