EdBacon
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I can't see KSL or Vail buying Elk. Just a vibe, but I just can't see it.
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Back in 2012ish they had all their features and a bunch of sheds and fences tagged up by some graffiti artists from NYC. It was pretty cool for a minute there.
Parks in general have seen a decline. They're expensive to maintain and build since they take up a lot of snowmaking resources, and the majority of guests won't care if it's there or not. It's a pretty small proportion of overall visitors to a ski area that are ever really using a terrain park. A few places like JFBB were the exception but even there Vail has decided it's not going to continue building terrain parks.
Maybe that trend is reversing though.
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I'm so stoked.
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53 minutes ago, indiggio said:
Yet I remember them grooming before with all the lights out and going just by the groomer's lights.
I don't remember if that was before KSL took over or not.They may keep them on when there's new snow to be moved rather than like in the Spring when it's just flattening out the surface?
What about all those many, many ski areas that don't have lights?
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3 hours ago, toast21602 said:
Thanks @EdBacon!!
I'll start daily trip reports for tubing. Thank you.
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I might switch from snowboarding to tubing.
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I punched a French guy and broke my pinkie finger at Camelback.
I think I told that story already.
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20 minutes ago, DiMe said:
Im pretty sure Camelback still does since they still host the USASA or whatever regional grom freestyle competition. They just build it later in the season. There's some massive whales on Rhodo.
I know Blue the True wants to build them on Dreamweaver again but the seasons have not allowed them to hammer that trail hard enough to build the big boy park. Hopefully we get it this year. Im expecting with next weekends 24 hour snowmaking windows Come Around park will get built sooner than later. Then they will prioritize opening 100% of the trails before focusing on building out Dreamweaver if the weather lets them.
Im more of a rail rat these days. Less consequential once you learn how to bail on them vs coming up short on a big money booter.
Big money. No whammies.
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22 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
back in the 80s when everybody was dancing on the ceiling.
Is that a euphemism for something?
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22 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:
I heard it was snowing in Kunkletown as well.
what's a kunkle, anyway?
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24 minutes ago, enjoralas said:
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.
I wonder if it has to do with leadership at acquired mountains trying to put on a show for the bean counters. It's like they want to show they can run the hill on the cheap to maximize their margins to prove their worth and get some more leverage later when they need to make the case for investments into their mountain.
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JFBB was the same way after they went onto Epic Pass. Lines were out of control and staffing seemed to be worse than under the Peak days. They would spin less lifts than the Peak days even with bigger crowds coming in.
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Know how you can bring your own cup to Starbucks or whatever and they'll fill it up? Maybe they can do that with lifts. Bring your own chair and they'll hook it up for you and you can skip the lines.
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55 minutes ago, saltyant said:
Camelback responded to yesterday: "Due to all of the snow we did have delayed openings for lifts. We are working on getting more terrain and more lifts open as soon as possible."
Is it typical that snow makes lifts stop working? Never heard this one before!
Camelback's social media is not getting any flak like Blue's is. I guess Blue was way worse or Camelback's clientele are just totally ok with spending $100 to stand in long lines all day and look at closed lifts.
Because everyone craps on Camelback already. When they pull this everyone expects it and shrugs their shoulders. People hold Blue to higher standards. Part of the paradox of low expectations, you start getting away with screwing up.
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Looks like up north (VT, ADKs, NH, Maine) might see a net positive of base-builder from this. About the only silver lining.
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Flood watches in effect.
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2 minutes ago, theprogram4 said:
Who’s having a worse day? Blue’s social media team or the Philadelphia eagles?
I'm having a braunschweiger melt.
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I skied Camelback as my local mountain for two years and I think I saw the triple running once, and the Marc Antony double running never in that time. That was like 7-8 years ago. Bailey at least gets used semi-regularly since it loads right by the main lodge, but they still use it frustratingly intermittently. Like I can't roll up on any given crowded weekend assuming it will be running. Sometimes it is, sometimes its not.
The Glen lift area makes sense they'll open since it accesses the terrain park. You can't really use it for anything else though.
Camelback has the bones of a decent ski area if they ever ran it right.
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Camelback looks like it has this great lift infrastructure but the truth is they only really have two lifts. They hardly ever run their fixed-grips which should make for great congestion relievers, or backups. But they just hate turning the things on. My feeling was always that they wanted to get rid of them. It's like they hate those fixed-grip lifts.
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TR 1/31 Suprise snow day?
in Camelback
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Did you have to pay for parking?