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2Planker

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Heard that Bobcat may be done for the year....
Snowcat's Control Panel is still a week away at best....
 
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joshua segal

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Not sure if anyone actually skis Crotched, but just noticed that Rocket is closed again and they buried that news halfway through the snow report. I can't believe that lift was built at Ascutney in 2000, it looks like it's from the 80s and that's definitely not a good thing.
Part had to be brought in for repairs. Not related to the driveshaft issue of last week. The lift was reopened to the public at 4PM 1/28/25.
 

SLyardsale

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Article highlighting the LATE APEX (shareholder) request:



and the LATE APEX - Vail Overview & Plan ... 88 page presentation, echoing a lot of what's included in these 614 pages.

fail resorts.JPG
 

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Yeh, there were a lot of spot on observations in that 88 page PowerPoint.

Even if Late Apex is a bogus shareholder entity, the fact that so many media outlets have shared the file link has to cause a bit of oh-fucks in the Vail ivory tower....
 

jimmywilson69

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Sounds like this firm has a small stake. If he's savy he'd start talking to people with bigger stakes. the problem is those folks just want money I suspect.

It does feel like some new leadership would be good. Look at REI, they just basically forced out their CEO because they wanted to "freshen" things up.
 

parahelia

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I've been following this thread for a few years but have never had anything to add, skiing mostly in my competently-run Boyne ecosystem.

Yesterday, my daughter's school was closed for Lunar New Year, and a friend invited her to go skiing at Sunapee. Sounded good - I figured it'd be pretty fun on a weekday and would get her out of our hair. Well. That website was a cluster. I tried to book her ticket and rentals (her skis were in Maine) on two different days with no luck - you'd get partly through and then the links would stop clicking through. Tried different browsers, used the app - nada. Mr. Parahelia looked at the code to try to figure out what was going on; one of their servers was just out to lunch. Of course no one was available at tech support (our friend mentioned that they seem lightly staffed, even on weekends). We had to pay walk-up prices as a result (not too $$ on a weekday). A bug or a feature? Who knows.

It was snowing so she ended up having a great time, but super frustrating that they can't even manage basic internet commerce. And I'm glad that I can always get someone on the phone at my home mountain.
 

2Planker

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I've been following this thread for a few years but have never had anything to add, skiing mostly in my competently-run Boyne ecosystem.

Yesterday, my daughter's school was closed for Lunar New Year, and a friend invited her to go skiing at Sunapee. Sounded good - I figured it'd be pretty fun on a weekday and would get her out of our hair. Well. That website was a cluster. I tried to book her ticket and rentals (her skis were in Maine) on two different days with no luck - you'd get partly through and then the links would stop clicking through. Tried different browsers, used the app - nada. Mr. Parahelia looked at the code to try to figure out what was going on; one of their servers was just out to lunch. Of course no one was available at tech support (our friend mentioned that they seem lightly staffed, even on weekends). We had to pay walk-up prices as a result (not too $$ on a weekday). A bug or a feature? Who knows.

It was snowing so she ended up having a great time, but super frustrating that they can't even manage basic internet commerce. And I'm glad that I can always get someone on the phone at my home mountain.
Yeah. They dont answer the phone at Attitash. Wildcat sometimes

$$$$ spent at AttiCat this year $0.
$$$$ spent at BW, SR, King Pine, Pleasant, Jay well over $700 and still rising
 
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Edd

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Skier visits at Wildcat must have plummeted, I don't see how they couldn't. I wonder how Attitash is doing so far year over year?

It is still January only, but the next big holidays are coming up fast.
 

oldfartrider

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I drove past Wildcat on Wednesday afternoon and was surprised there were a good amount of cars in the parking lot.
 

eatskisleep

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Killington: 99-100% open right now
Wildcat: 37%! Great job Wildcat! You’re finally past 1/4 open!
 

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NH is getting the shaft in terms of snowfall and more importantly water content this year, and Vail (and really Peak before them as well) bought a mountain that had been run into the ground already, but at this point it is getting hard to defend.
 

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From that pic it looks like they're have very little snow, bare spots seemingly pretty high up; so seems like lack of snowmaking would be the culprit if it entirely sucks.

Of course, snowmaking can only do so much, or as much as the snowmaking can handle depending on whether coverage is poor, adequate, or stellar.
 

BenedictGomez

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Arrived today and the app said the Red Pine Gondola had a 17 minute wait, so we walked over the the Orange Bubble because it only claimed to have a 5 minute wait.

Just 32 minutes later I got on the Orange Bubble chair.

Seriously, what is even the point of having this app if it's so frequently wrong? And seemingly always in Vail's favor. I've yet to see a "20 minute wait" only be 4 minutes.
 
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