Vote for Utah ski bus

[BenedictGomez]

the ability to potentially give some gas from 1 car to another in a situation like that is far easier than if an EV's battery is at 0%

Eventually this wont be a problem, the current high-end EVs (LCID, etc..) have the ability to charge other cars. Give it time & that will be a standard feature on every EV made.

 

[ss20]

Damn, were you a witness to that fatality at Alta last season? That sucked.

I did not see it- I can see how the wording in my post would lead to that confusion, though. But I did hear a lot of details about it though. Absolutely gruesome/horrific. It's staying with me, that's for sure.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

Surely you dont feel safe walking alone at 2am in Brownsville or B.S.

Surely you haven’t been to bed stuy in a decade or so based on that comment.

Many of my friends live in bed stuy. We do things in bed stuy day and night and late night. We walk. We hang out outside. We don’t carry guns. We don’t get murdered.

 

[thetrailboss]

I did not see it- I can see how the wording in my post would lead to that confusion, though. But I did hear a lot of details about it though. Absolutely gruesome/horrific. It's staying with me, that's for sure.

Yeah, I was hoping that you did not see it.

Your comments about the groomers are spot on. Add to it that for a good portion of last season the snow sucked, so more folks were on the main runs instead of exploring the off-piste options.

 

[BodeMiller1]

Killington does everything right.

• Running K1 off of cows.
• Using cold air from outside for refers (no not that kind)
• Heating the sidewalks going into the hotels.
• Using local artists and contractors (when it's cost efficient)
• The HUGE fireplaces in the lodges.
• Reusing existing buildings when no longer needed. Example, the lift house at the top of Devils Fiddle.
• There marketing Department is awesome, you look forward to the video ads because they are funny.
• Also, cows.

 

[BodeMiller1]

Surely you haven’t been to bed stuy in a decade or so based on that comment.

Many of my friends live in bed stuy. We do things in bed stuy day and night and late night. We walk. We hang out outside. We don’t carry guns. We don’t get murdered.

Please do not call him Shirely. It's rude.

 

[raisingarizona]

I get some of your points, but any resort that makes improvements and left upgrades is eyeing a bigger piece of skier/rider visits. Anything else said by a resort that does so is mostly contrary to R&D investments. Yes, we can point to the JHMR's as an "outlier" here, but they must be returning higher revenues even as they "limit" Ikon/MC/day ticket traffic or they would cease investing on hill (and they have most certainly not stopped that).
SR is no exception TB. We have no Ikon/ticket limits, traffic has backed up to the Walgreen's in town on some Saturday/Sundays and parking has maxed out before 10am on the main side, with only remote Jordan parking available. Thankfully, with the breadth of the resort, you can still find uncrowded lifts/trails if you know when to hit certain sections. But given the massive ongoing investments on the hill (snowmaking, while to many hasn't been obvious, is currently in the middle of a massive transformation to be fully realized next year), new Jordan 8, hopefully a new Barker next year and Merrill Hill this year, I fully expect them to be attempting to draw even more. All this said, SR while I've been skiing their since 1990 has never been "quiet" weekends and holidays so I expect that. And like you have seen, those peak times are often less crowded now than non blackout weekends.

Now, I don't think Maine DOT is looking to bypass Rte2 with a gondola from downtown Bethel up the backside to the top of Barker anytime soon. Then again, our access does not require the transit of a very narrow, potentially environmentally sensitive dead end multi mile and 4000' vertical canyon that has major avalanche issues to boot. There is valid debate on the public side of funding, especially if it will only ever just terminate in LCC. That said, this is not the only public linkage town-mountain gondola proposal worldwide (two come to mind in NZ, one from Wanaka to Cardrona and another from Queenstown to The Remarkable). We want sustainable transit options, this could be the way. Perhaps a bigger lean on the private side finding a private-public partnership would be more appropriate here.

Telluride as well.

 

[machski]

Telluride as well.

What, I know they are discussing replacing their Gondola from town. That lift is getting along in years and definitely in operational hours.

 

[thetrailboss]

What, I know they are discussing replacing their Gondola from town. That lift is getting along in years and definitely in operational hours.

I believe the decision was refurbish/replace. It is cool. FWIW they paid for it with the resort chipping in and a local sales tax. Here the proposal is almost all state funds from the taxpayers.

 

[machski]

I believe the decision was refurbish/replace. It is cool. FWIW they paid for it with the resort chipping in and a local sales tax. Here the proposal is almost all state funds from the taxpayers.

A quick search of LiftBlog brought up an article from Nov2016 noting 3 options, all but a modest capacity increase in option 1 would likely cause costs above $15-20milliion. Even just upgrading the cabins would likely trigger added scrutiny of tower/sheaves and tower foundations by the Colorado tram board as those newer cabins weigh considerably more than the originals and CO board would see that as a "major" design change. Option 3 was a completely new build, possibly re-utilizing the current terminal buildings. The article said the decision would be needed by 2027.

 

[thetrailboss]

A quick search of LiftBlog brought up an article from Nov2016 noting 3 options, all but a modest capacity increase in option 1 would likely cause costs above $15-20milliion. Even just upgrading the cabins would likely trigger added scrutiny of tower/sheaves and tower foundations by the Colorado tram board as those newer cabins weigh considerably more than the originals and CO board would see that as a "major" design change. Option 3 was a completely new build, possibly re-utilizing the current terminal buildings. The article said the decision would be needed by 2027.

Yep. The latest on it: https://www.telluridenews.com/news/article_627294ba-ecfb-11ec-8854-53cd462eca4e.html

 

[BenedictGomez]

Surely you haven’t been to bed stuy in a decade or so based on that comment.

Many of my friends live in bed stuy. We do things in bed stuy day and night and late night. We walk. We hang out outside. We don’t carry guns. We don’t get murdered.

Anecdotally, that's a nice thing to hear. Statistically and factually, however, the violent crime rate in Bed-Stuy is a bit > than 1%, placing it among the more dangerous places in all of America.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

 

[deadheadskier]

that gets a big fat yawn from me as a NYC person who has watched the media sensationalize the conditions in my fair city for the past 2 years.

i anticipate good coffee, good beer, good pot, good restaurants, people with flannel and tattoos, and some homeless in the downtown center. no biggie.

Never been to Portland, but I've been working most of the summer in NYC. I spend 2-4 days a week down there and most of the time stay at the Sheraton downtown Brooklyn. Rates are typically decent, and there's decent enough places to eat in that neighborhood plus the subway station is convenient.

I've taken to using the Subway between hospitals all over Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan because parking is such a racket. Take Maimonides as an example. 6000 employees and only a 500 space garage. Unless you are an obvious patient, the only way you're getting a parking spot there after 8AM is if you grease the palms of the parking attendant. My company doesn't reimburse that $10, so most of the time I arrive by Subway.

Ever since starting this position I have family and friends constantly commenting on how unsafe the subway is and NYC in general. The fears seem completely overblown.

 

[Granite1]

Never been to Portland, but I've been working most of the summer in NYC. I spend 2-4 days a week down there and most of the time stay at the Sheraton downtown Brooklyn. Rates are typically decent, and there's decent enough places to eat in that neighborhood plus the subway station is convenient.

I've taken to using the Subway between hospitals all over Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan because parking is such a racket. Take Maimonides as an example. 6000 employees and only a 500 space garage. Unless you are an obvious patient, the only way you're getting a parking spot there after 8AM is if you grease the palms of the parking attendant. My company doesn't reimburse that $10, so most of the time I arrive by Subway.

Ever since starting this position I have family and friends constantly commenting on how unsafe the subway is and NYC in general. The fears seem completely overblown.

The family and friends of Michelle Go (and millions of other crime victims) might disagree? You couldn't pay me to go to NYC - overblown fears-or-not.

Woman Pushed Onto Subway Tracks ‘Never Saw’ Her Attacker - The New York Times

Woman Pushed Onto Subway Tracks ‘Never Saw’ Her Attacker​

“She was just the person who did everything right,” a neighbor said of Michelle Go, who died on Saturday when a homeless man pushed her in front of an R train.

 

[deadheadskier]

The family and friends of Michelle Go (and millions of other crime victims) might disagree? You couldn't pay me to go to NYC - overblown fears-or-not.

Woman Pushed Onto Subway Tracks ‘Never Saw’ Her Attacker - The New York Times

Woman Pushed Onto Subway Tracks ‘Never Saw’ Her Attacker​

“She was just the person who did everything right,” a neighbor said of Michelle Go, who died on Saturday when a homeless man pushed her in front of an R train.

I'm aware of that incident and others like it. They are extraordinarily rare.

Do you no longer travel to Conway because 3 people were murdered in the Army Navy store there?

Man Arraigned On Murder Charges In Conway Shootings

A man charged with shooting and killing three people at a Conway military surplus store was arraigned on three counts of first-degree murder Friday. Video | Watch Arraignment

www.wmur.com

3 plus million people a day use the trains around NYC, almost all of them without incident.

 

[skiur]

I'll take my chances in Conway over NYC any day. Plus, why would I go to NYC when most of the people that live there support politicians that think I'm a racist and semi-facist and a danger to democracy?

You obviously have no idea of what NYC is like.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

lol Jesus fucking Christ.

Don’t worry. You’re not missing anything. Stay where you are. You’ll just get all murdered up down here.

 

[thetrailboss]

lol Jesus fucking Christ.

Don’t worry. You’re not missing anything. Stay where you are. You’ll just get all murdered up down here.

I wonder what the murder rate is on a bus vs. a 3S gondola?

 

[Granite1]

I'm aware of that incident and others like it. They are extraordinarily rare.

Do you no longer travel to Conway because 3 people were murdered in the Army Navy store there?

Man Arraigned On Murder Charges In Conway Shootings

A man charged with shooting and killing three people at a Conway military surplus store was arraigned on three counts of first-degree murder Friday. Video | Watch Arraignment

www.wmur.com

3 plus million people a day use the trains around NYC, almost all of them without incident.

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CONWAY — Five years ago Monday, a horrific shooting at the Army Barracks store in North Conway rocked the Mount Washington Valley. The shooter, Michael Woodbury, then 31 of Windham, Maine, has been sentenced to prison for the rest of his life for murdering three people.

At least Woodbury won't be able to kill again.

Unlike Martial Simon:

"In 2017, the Times said records show Simon told a psychiatrist at a state-run hospital it was only a matter of time before he shoved a woman onto train tracks, but he was still released soon after."

"The homeless man charged with killing a young New York City woman months ago when he pushed her in front of an oncoming subway train in Times Square was ruled not mentally fit to stand trial and will be sent to a psychiatric facility indefinitely following a Tuesday court hearing."

Like I said, I'll take Conway, NH over NYC any day.