VAIL SUCKS

[thetrailboss]

Park City's mountain coaster is way bigger than Snowbird's coaster. It's so long you can see it from pretty far away on 224. That said, I almost seriously injured myself on Snowbirds coaster, so length isn't the be all end all in terms of mountain coaster extremism.

What happened?

 

[BenedictGomez]

What happened?

I was racing at Snowbird & trying to catch up so I used no break at all & ejected from the mountain coaster. Luckily the pipe held me but I slid down quite a ways. To give an idea of the speed involved my polyester shirt melted onto my skin. I kept the shirt & it has a big hole in the shoulder. Hurt for several weeks.

Vail got rid of the fastest PC coaster about 5 years ago due to fear of lawsuits. I was told ambulances were there nearly every day.

 

[BenedictGomez]

We plan on going to Snowbird's Octoberfest next weekend. I won't be going anywhere near the mountain coaster.

 

[deadheadskier]

I was racing at Snowbird & trying to catch up so I used no break at all & ejected from the mountain coaster. Luckily the pipe held me but I slid down quite a ways. To give an idea of the speed involved my polyester shirt melted onto my skin. I kept the shirt & it has a big hole in the shoulder. Hurt for several weeks.

Vail got rid of the fastest PC coaster about 5 years ago due to fear of lawsuits. I was told ambulances were there nearly every day.

So the seatbelt failed? Or does Snowbird's not have one? I've flown off an alpine slide before, but those don't have seatbelts typically.

I've only ever ridden Gunstock's coaster and it has a seatbelt. Even though it has one, there's a few sections I'll still pull the brakes as I fear the cart will leave the track. It's probably near impossible though. They have to test these things with really heavy loads at full speed I would think.

That's crazy that happened to you.

 

[RichT]

This was the best!!!!

The Rise and Fall of Action Park—New Jersey’s Most Dangerous Water Park | HISTORY

It quickly earned the infamous nickname “Accident Park.”

www.history.com

 

[JimG.]

aka "Class Action Park"

 

[crystalmountainskier]

Another Vail GM bites the dust. Northstar’s Amy Ohran going to Alterra/Palisades.

 

[jaytrem]

I suspect BG is talking about an alpine slide. If you get ejected from a mountain coaster you're probably dead. Alpine slide injuries are quite common.

 

[thetrailboss]

I suspect BG is talking about an alpine slide. If you get ejected from a mountain coaster you're probably dead. Alpine slide injuries are quite common.

I was confused about that as well.

 

[thetrailboss]

Another Vail GM bites the dust. Northstar’s Amy Ohran going to Alterra/Palisades.

"CORRECT. SHE WAS NOT WORTHY!"

 

[jimmywilson69]

Link from LiftBlog tweet

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[ThatGuy]

I was racing at Snowbird & trying to catch up so I used no break at all & ejected from the mountain coaster. Luckily the pipe held me but I slid down quite a ways. To give an idea of the speed involved my polyester shirt melted onto my skin. I kept the shirt & it has a big hole in the shoulder. Hurt for several weeks.

Vail got rid of the fastest PC coaster about 5 years ago due to fear of lawsuits. I was told ambulances were there nearly every day.

If you don't use the brakes on the slide at PC you’re going to fly off the side, my friend found that out the hard way

 

[KustyTheKlown]

there is a great doc about action park. on amazon maybe. our camp took us every summer and someone always got badly injured.

 

[kingslug]

Alcohol was a big factor there...as well as other substances..

 

[kingslug]

An epic pair if skis from j skis

 

[drjeff]

there is a great doc about action park. on amazon maybe. our camp took us every summer and someone always got badly injured.

That is "Class Action Park" and as a side note, one of the former employees they interview in the doc, Joe Hession, is now one of thr owners of both Big Snow and Mountain Creek and has been instrumental in the terrain based learning system that one of his businesses markets and sells out to many small ski areas aroundn the country for them (the small ski areas) to use for intro level instruction programs for their guests and then his company provided background guidance in the marketing and day to day operations of the learning program. Joe is definitely involved in the industry, and his wife Halley, before she switched into full time Mom duties 4 or 5 years ago, was also in the industry and did the in season weekly, entertaining online video snowreport segment for Ski Magazine on their social media platforms and actaully got her start in the ski industry as the snow reporter for Mount Snow roughly 15 years ago

 

[drjeff]

Maybe Vail will announce some names for their open GM positions in the very near future, as they've been having a leadership summit at Mount Snow the last few days.....

 

[tumbler]

Cafeteria Managers Summit

 

[thetrailboss]

Uh oh.....looks like Alterra also is interested in Laax, Switzerland. Link compliments of LiftBlog:

Wie Pepsi gegen Cola: Zwi US-Schneesport-Giganten buhlen um Schweizer Skigebiete

Nach Andermatt und Crans-Montana will die amerikanische Firma Vail weitere Schweizer Resorts aufkaufen. Doch nun drängt auch Konkurrentin Alterra auf den Markt. Skigebiete stehen vor der Frage: Epic Pass oder Ikon Pass?

www.nzz.ch

 

[machski]

Just read an article, sounds like Stowe Resort (Vail) and the Mount Mansfield Academy are teaming up to start Snowmaking on Main Street race trail November 1st now. They claim it won't affect the normal roll out on the Mansfield side. The Academy is hoping to get an additional 5-6 early weeks on snow on the Spruce race terrain each winter