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  2. Seriously, WTF is with this Weather?

    in General Chat

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    I fully expected my kids to have to do a remote learning day today, but they actually gave them a traditional snow day. Pleasant surprise, since I certainly didn't feel like dealing with getting them through whatever they were supposed to do during the day while I was working after I got done with that.

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  4. The Grate Redemption at Camelback 1/13/24

    in Camelback

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    1 hour ago, mute1080 said:

    Last I heard Blue was charging(threatening) $20 for a new pass but never actually charging the person and still printing one

    They were going to charge me last year the day I forgot my jacket that had my pass in it, but I elected to redeem one of my own buddy passes to use for myself instead. I can't remeber how much it was going to be, but $20 sounds right. 5 or 10 dollars and I would have just paid it instead of using a buddy.

    They didn't charge me on opening day this year when I forgot I had last seasons alien day tic from Camel in my glove and not my Blue pass. Maybe because it was opening day so would have been like I was picking it up for the first time? They also asked if I wanted to hang onto the new card when I went in the next visit to ask them to make my 40th card the active one again. And when she asked she said something like, "in case you lose it so you won't get charged for a replacement."

  11. Broken Ski Lift at Camelback on Powder Day 2024

    in Camelback

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    42 minutes ago, saltyant said:

    Correct. I've just written off Pharaoh mentally for the last several years, would be nice to ski it again if they put the terrain park junk elsewhere. Sorry to be a terrain park hater Dime, but my skis don't leave the ground like my brother Atomic Skier.

    Pharoah and Bactrian are not marked as terrain parks on the online map this year. 

    I wonder if Cliffhanger is in play to open? I think that's what you can see from the tubing cam. I know they blew on it this year, and it looks like it has snow on the cam. For sure that can be decieving though

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  12. Zee Lights

    in Blue Mountain

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    5 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

    I think generally lessons can cut the liftline.  It’s like that everywhere. 

    I hate long lift lines, but I also hate paying all that money for camp for my kids and them not getting an adequate number of laps in to lurn sumthin. 

    If they were in camp on Sunday last week instead of Saturday I honestly would have wished they kept them in the little Frontier learning area

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  17. January 7

    in Blue Mountain

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    6 hours ago, saltyant said:

    They were ok, but I was expecting ungroomed, empty champaign powder runs like that amazing morning in Steamboat with @enjoralas and @pops. Still my best ski day ever. Those 5 runs at Camelback weren't quite as amazing.

    we had fun that day. 

     

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  18. Zee Lights

    in Blue Mountain

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    I'll piss in the Cheerios. 


    It also allows them to cut off the guns earlier than they might have in the past to save money -- sorry, be most efficient -- and get (and then keep) each trail at the minimum depth they think it needs to be skiable. A lot less "blow it deep, spread it out" than in the past. Which is great if it allows them to turn on more guns elsewhere. But is less snow on the mountain overall if they target certain trails and then target thin spots on those trails and aren't maxing capacity. 

    I would say Blue wouldn't do it that way. But KSL would.

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  19. January 7

    in Blue Mountain

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    12 minutes ago, mute1080 said:

    Screenshot from Sunday 912a

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    The best part about this:

    There have been multiple comments all over social media, about how Blue should have known how bad it was going to be, how crazy because they sold out of tickets so they knew how many people would be there. And that's all correct, they should have known based on the number sold, etc, and they should have done more to have the lifts working. They knew we got freezing rain, they should have started on the lifts earlier. They should have started on the OG6 WAY before they did, they should have been trying to get the 6 and the quad up at the same time, whichever one comes up first it's still a win. 

    But the best part is, they didn't really sell out of tickets. They just stopped selling tickets and marked them sold out. The sold out post went out not long after this screenshot timestamp. They didn't sell 629 tickets at $165 each in 30 minutes and sell out.  So at 9:15, with one lift working, hordes of people standing in line, they still had every intention of trying to pack more people onto the hill. Thankfully someone made one of the few intelligent decisions Blue made yesterday and decided to shut that down. But it shows how purely reactive every move they make these days seems to be. 

    It's almost like they got rid of anyone who knew what they were doing.

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  22. 12/9/17...busy..snowing..rad

    in Blue Mountain

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    2 minutes ago, saltyant said:

    Blue Mountains Instagram post says "Pow Day" so that means it was a Powder Day.

     

    That wasn't referring to conditions, it was onomatopoeia to describe the kick in the teeth everyone was in for with lift operations.

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  23. January 7

    in Blue Mountain

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    Got there a bit later than I wanted, delayed by getting everything loaded and arranged for the tailgate. Couldn't do it last night with the snow since I don't have a bed cover anymore.

    Got to the lot about 750 and booted amd at the snow by about 810. Line for the super 6 was already insane, at least halfway to the OG 6 with the intermittent stopping and the quad not spinning. Pops and I talked about what we wanted to do. 

    Noticed that the quad started moving slowly then stopped, but I figured that meant they were working on it and hoped it would open soon. Between the long line, the zoo we could see on Main St already, and the knowledge that unless they hiked no one would have gotten Paradise yet, we decided to go wait it out.

    That ended up being a *much* longer wait than I would have ever expected, and we ended up waiting about an hour and 20 minutes or so for it to open about 940. We realized pretty quickly we were pot committed as the super 6 line ballooned behind us. There was no way I was getting in that line, so it was either wait it out for one really nice Paradise run, or leave. 

    When it finally opened we were on about the 5th chair or so (with Nastar Glen)  that wasn't the race coaches who got to line up inside before they opened the gates. They all went right to Coming Soon to work on setting up for their training, so to me no big deal letting them in first.

    They'll run was great, some fresh on top of the fresh cord. Felt like about 3-4 inches. Easily run of the year so far for me. Got down to the bottom and put the skis back in the locker and headed to the lot to cook.

    Actually wondered while standing around at the quad if we would get out there and find out everyone had left to do something better with their day because of the shit show, but most were still hanging around. Pops headed right out, knee is bugging him and he wanted to get his snow removal done. Wasn't actually feeling the tailgate and debated just heading out, but ended up setting it up and had a reasonably good time.

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