Justo8484
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On 9/19/2020 at 6:24 PM, saltyant said:
Thanks @Justo8484. Maybe I'll go to Snowbasin. I'm fine with anywhere but long steep groomers sounds like my kind of mountain. I'd like some variety of restaurants nearby since I'd rather not rent a car if possible.
if you're trying to avoid renting a car then powder/basin are not gonna be the easiest to do, logistically. you can technically take public transit to get to eden from SLC airport, but it would turn a 7-8 hour travel day into a 10+ hour day pretty quickly. You'd be going full multi-modal with a train to ogden then a transfer to a bus to get you up to eden. There's a free/cheap bus to powder from town every morning, and probably a paid shuttle to basin, but your food options are gonna be extremely limited without a car. for car-free skiing, you can't beat PC/deer valley. i've stayed in town in PC a few times and it's awesome, i just wish the skiing was a bit more like alta/snowbird/snowbasin. PC and DV have no shortage of awesome groomers with some pretty easy access to tree skiing if that interests you at all. not sure how much the PC downtown scene should really be a factor this winter, honestly. I'd be pretty ok posting up in a condo near powder mtn and just making breakfast/dinner every day given the current circumstances.
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18 hours ago, saltyant said:
TFTI. I literally have no idea about any of them. @AtomicSkier posted the website today and it looks cool. I like the layout of their website, and the mountains look pretty big. I Googled "is Snowbird good for intermediates" and Google said "Yes".
not to knock snowbird at all, because the place is awesome, but if you're going out west looking for powder and you're not super comfortable skiing fresh snow yet, snowbird is not gonna be your best bet. as other said, it tracks quickly unless you catch it on a mid-day storm cycle, and in my experience is more crowded than some of the other areas. i think someone else mentioned powder mtn and snowbasin. i've done a lot of trips to utah and stayed in eden, which is a small town at the bottom of the canyon from powder mtn. snowbasin is about 20-25 minutes from there, so you can easily do both in one trip. there's not much in eden, a few restaurants, a ski shop, coffee shop, grocery store. i haven't been to either in a few years, and i've heard ikon has kinda popularized basin a bit, but i've never had crazy lift lines there, even on pow days, and powder has been limiting ticket sales for a few years now to keep crowds down. basin skis like a mini-snowbird, with awesome steep wide groomers to bail out onto if you can't find good snow off trail. powder is old school, generally slow lifts, no super sketchy terrain, but tons of acreage and an option to upcharge for a snowcat ride to a great ridge with some nice wide open relatively mellow sidecountry. i'm sure others could say the same, but happy to help answer any questions you might have about some of the options north of SLC.
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38 minutes ago, Schif said:
Walled and heated tents in parking lots are just sad looking. I can't imagine that is any better than eating indoors. There isn't much food in the world that is tasty enough for me to want to sit on asphalt on a folding chair in a tent.
what about sitting in a camping chair on gravel next to a pee puddle? and yeah, for all inTents and purposes, that's like thiiiiis close to indoor dining in that photo.
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3 hours ago, AtomicSkier said:
should've cancelled your pedicure and joined us.
manicure. i thought we discussed this.
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shoulda ripped around on those snowbikes instead of those dumb slalom skis
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7 minutes ago, Schif said:
OK so hear me out on this and let me know what you guys think. Reservations, in some form or another are going to get ironed out in the next year and then be here to stay in some form or another. By more accurately predicting the number of people on the mountain on a given day and their demographics a resort will be able to more efficiently make operational decisions.
yeah, i just don't see this benefitting the customer in the long run in any tangible way. i also don't really see much of a need for the reservation systems to continue once things hopefully return to status quo. sounds like a great way to artificially limit supply, thus increasing demand, and prices.
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7 hours ago, theprogram4 said:
Thank you. So I’m getting the impression the day pass is simply a discount card, as in you still have to purchase a lift ticket?
the epic day pass is the dumbest, most confusing thing. as far as i can tell, it's no different than buying a single day ticket, except you get the benefit of being able to reserve your days, at the cost of paying possibly more than the day-of (yes, i know, not a thing this winter) window rate. as someone else mentioned at some point, $101 a day might be great for vail, or park city or something, but completely screws over the person who's trying to pre-plan their one day a year they take their family skiing at jack frost. that's a ludicrous amount of money to spend to ski at frost, but it seems like without buying the epic day pass, you can't reserve a ticket more than one week out? maybe i missed something somewhere, and i know this season is gonna be anything but normal, but it wouldn't surprise me if it puts a lot of people off of a lot of the smaller epic resorts. maybe i spent too much time in the ocean today and am just a little extra salty, i dunno.
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Interesting. Part of me thinks they are trying to lure in the Ikonics to get them to burn up their days in the early season, but im probably just reading to far into it. I would assume for the unlimited resorts, its just like having a season pass from the mountain. If not, oh boy, popcorn time. Its just gonna be interesting how this all plays out. I think JH shutting down season pass sales was a brilliant move on their part. One would have to assume the most profitable ticket they sell is a day pass. So, at least they have some money coming in, where as the season pass money has come in a while back. Not sure where Ikon falls in the profitability department for a resort, but i would imagine its pretty low. Its just interesting other than K, nobody is saying much about it.
seems like discount lift tickets could be no more. Unless of course off peak days dont get filled to capacity......what ever that is.
Yeah, curious to see how everything shakes out. I’ve got a pass to blue, so I’ll ski there. Kinda feeing like anything that’s not blue or self-powered will be bonus this season. Anyone need a set of Salomon guardians to get their uphill on?
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7 hours ago, JFskiDan said:
I feel like every resort is holding out on how to deal with Ikon passholders.......like nobody wants to be the first to announce they are getting the shaft in all of this.
killington's plans seem pretty favorable for someone hoping to have an ikonic season.
QuoteEarly season skiing and riding will be limited to passholders and Ikon passholders.
https://vtskiandride.com/killington-announces-opening-day-2021-season-plan/
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It’s fun that you can pick and choose data points to speak to the narrative that you’re trying to prove.
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34 minutes ago, liplipliplip said:
Buy a 7-day pass and use it at a mountain with expensive daily tickets? Vail/Beaver Creek are above $200 for weekend dailies, Breckenridge is close.
yea i guess that's the downside of the vail takeover for a lot of these smaller resorts. $129 is a "great deal" for vail for a day ticket, but pretty crappy for a place like frost. more weekends to bike or surf this fall before ski season kicks in at blue, i guess.
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3 minutes ago, Shadows said:
says up to 50% not 50%.
Oh i'm aware of the subtle verbiage. But what are the circumstances under which someone would actually save 50% for a single day ticket? Because buying pre-season seems like the time when that discount would be most likely to apply, and if I'm remembering correctly, $109 is more than what I paid at the window there last year, so it's actually a price increase, and not a savings at all.
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Can someone please explain WTF is the difference between an Epic Day Pass and a lift ticket, other than the fact that one has your photo on it and the other doesn't? From their wording, it seems like the Epic Day Pass gets you the same benefits re: reservations as a regular epic pass does, but the pricing is really confusing. For example, on Hunter's site, I see:
Even if you're only planning on skiing one day next season, the Epic Day Pass allows you to access Hunter Mountain at up to 50% off of the cost of lift tickets
When you click through to actually buy one, the cheapest 1-Day option available is $109, and the most expensive $129. That doesn't seem anywhere even remotely close to being 50% off.I was hoping to buy one or two days at this supposed discount rate for early season use at hunter before blue opens, but $109 for an early season day at hunter does not seem worth it at all.-
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pic from today
Oh you were up there yesterday? Super nice day out. If you saw someone biking in neon orange shorts, that was me hah
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JFBB is requiring reservations for passholders and guests. Plus in the email they included an ever elusive aerial shot of Jackson Frost.
They’re gonna miss out on a lot of early season revenue from all the bear creek kids who go up to Boulder for park laps before bear opens.
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37 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
When this pandemic is over, will likely be a hybrid version of the old way and the new way.
sounds like you've got things pretty well figured out and running smoothly. it also sounds like your office manager handling the phones until 11 and then you taking over would work pretty nicely for lots of weekday AM blue mtn sessions.
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15 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
I’ve had three in person appointments all summer..all masked and outside. When we went to yellow people were the most pushy about coming in and now they don’t even want to. If they don’t know what they want I mail or email them info and then when they’re ready to buy I mail them a contract. Has really freed up a lot of time.
Do you foresee yourself continuing to do more business by mail/email instead of in person? I'm really interested to see how the dynamics of the traditional office job change after things go back to "normal". My work has already gotten much more flexible with hours, and it's not really expected that we're locked to our desks 9-5 at all anymore, with people having to help homeschool kids, take care of babies, etc. We've proven that we still keep to project deadlines and get stuff done, so I think it'll be pretty hard for a lot of people to want to give up the flexibility we have now.
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i must be extra poor. my line skis were bought used with 2.5 mounts already in them and haven't been tuned in like 5+ years.
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if our paths ever cross this winter and you've got a ~315mm bootsole, you're welcome to give mine a try. I have salomon guardians on my 122s, which are somewhat adjustable, but it's really a totally different ski than any of the others, which is I guess why they don't make them anymore. 108s and 110s will have pivots on them though, so not really any adjustability.
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52 minutes ago, Schif said:
The vert at Frost might be pushing it in terms of being able to handle a high speed detachable. What is the minimum haul rope length for a detachable lift to operate?
Very valid point. I remember camelback having issues with re-spacing chairs on their high speed quad a while back, but I haven't cared to pay much attention to that place. It's the same reason I was given for why bear didn't put in a high speed quad though, for whatever that's worth. Frost just might not be big enough?
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On 8/25/2020 at 9:47 AM, liplipliplip said:
I've been eyeing the woodsman for a bit, regret not picking up a pair in this spring's factory finds sale. I just need someone to tell me they're more playful than my liberty variants and I'll pull the trigger
i'm not very familiar with anything recent of liberty's. some quick research on the variant gives me reviews that are all over the place. liberty describes it as stiff and stable and a more traditional kinda all mountain ski, which some reviews agree with, but there's also some reviews that find it to be soft and not very stable. i can't find anything on the mount point for anything but the 117 (-10cm from center), but the woodsman if i remember correctly is around 6.5-8cm back from center, with a slightly tighter radius and a bit more rocker, so i think they'd probably be more playful, but that's just my speculation. if you're talking side hits, gapping/doubling everything you can, quick slashy turns, spraying your friends, and popping switch from time to time kinda playful, you'd be better off on the jeffrey i think, though.
edit: there's still a few demo pairs of jeffreys floating around if you check a certain other popular skiing forum that's not named newschoolers, if you're interested. looks like $450 + shipping with bindings still
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18 hours ago, liplipliplip said:
Are those ON3P skis on the east coast? I’d recognize those green base layers anywhere.
Yezzir. Those are jeffrey 122s (think they only made production versions of them for one year). I just picked up a new pair of jeffrey 108s at the end of last season to replace my prototype jeffrey 110s from like 8 years ago. Wife just grabbed a pair of jessie 96s, too. I've contemplated getting rid of the k2 shreditor 92s and replacing with a woodsman or jeffrey 96, but i may hold out for the @GSSucks pro model.
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18 hours ago, liplipliplip said:
Nothing better than when you can ski happy land, drop elevator, and get into some other stupid shit all on the same day
does the little cliff huck fall under the "stupid shit" umbrella? i seem to always do stupid shit whenever i ski frost, and it's always a fun change of pace from blue
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47 minutes ago, toast21602 said:
PA’s best circus.
false. that's blue
13 minutes ago, Schif said:Second best
Pre-pandemic I used to see them practicing trapeze while going for walks.
i've been there...
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Blue Mountain - COVID-19 Update
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Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Obviously the app isn't gonna be perfect, and sure there are scenarios where not everyone is going to get notified (kind of obvious if they don't actually have the app) and some people might be erroneously notified even if they were within ~6 feet of you for only 2 seconds, but if it keeps a few more people from getting sick and dying, it seems worth it to me, no?