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  1. January 7

    in Blue Mountain

    Posted

    im dreaming here, but i'd love for their response to this event being some sort of guarantee for advertised large snowfall events.

    highspeeds will be operational at open. 30% back for each downed lift. sprinkle in some wait time algorithm where a third lift might not be required.

    no managed lines at open - 20% back

    no vip lines at open - 10% back

    one can wish

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  3. January 7

    in Blue Mountain

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    34 minutes ago, tnt temp said:

    I really think a of this had to have been Ikon driven.

    It's not going to get any better...

    crowds, sure i think it had a decent impact.

    every possible reason doesn't explain the stopped lifts tho

  5. January 7

    in Blue Mountain

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, indiggio said:

    Yeah, it's not like they can't write anything down in a run book or something.
    Snow Day Preparations:
    1. Get lift crew in early
    2. Get maintenance crew in early/stay late
    3. Fire up ALL lifts early
    4. Review lift gating procedures
    ...

    I think their book looks like this

    1. Make sure BMR is catered to
    2. Is the paid parking ok?
    3. Hows the magic carpet on frontier alley, is it ready yet?
    4. Check on the lifts at the bottom, they're probably fine tho.
    5. Profit

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  7. January 7

    in Blue Mountain

    Posted · Edited by Benm

    5 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:

    Hopefully they will learn from this

    here's the problem. they learn about it in the short term. the next day jd was on the radio asking about all kinds of shit (like getting challenge prepped in case of crowds, asking time and time again about the VIP lines, etc).

    but it takes months, sometimes YEARS for snow like that to come around again. by then, anything they'd learned has been forgotten

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  8. January 7

    in Blue Mountain

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    everywhere was gonna be a shitshow. thats what anyone would expect when there's snow forecasted.

    the issue i have is that, seeing there would be this shitshow, having one of three lifts (the quad was advertised as 'open' in both the preliminary conditions report and the actual conditions report) it mind boggling. it doesn't matter if there's ice or shit or whatever. get a crew there early and make sure its operational. i'd have been way more content waiting in a 20 min line as opposed to a 60 min line. 

    now throw in chairs being sent up with singles.

    then not having the VIP line - tbh - whether or not it'd have actually helped things i have no idea. my guess is that it wouldn't have been worthwhile unless someone was grouping chairs. you'd be fighting 7 other gates.

    one thing i'm not hearing much about is the parking, which is surprising

     

    anyway

    crowds - expected 
    piss poor management when one knows that big crowds are coming - sadly, at blue... expected.

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  10. January 7

    in Blue Mountain

    Posted

    15 minutes ago, enjoralas said:

    Is that the drone video one? I noticed there wasn't even a comment button or indicator with number of comments below that one

    i think so. this one 

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  12. January 7

    in Blue Mountain

    Posted

    37 minutes ago, mute1080 said:

    Filling the chairs would have helped and I was also wondering why they can't do that anymore. Also, isn't one of the selling points of the season pass the VIP line? What happened to that?

    when i finally went to the quad, the VIP gate was roped off, like orange tape in an X shape across it.

    photos of the six showed a traffic cone with a pole sticking up out of it. 

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  13. January 7

    in Blue Mountain

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    11 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:

    Both 6's are currently running.  looks like they are setting up ropes to run the old 6 today.  I guess they are working on redemption.  

    'do you want to set up challenge as a backup today'

    'yes'

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  15. January 7

    in Blue Mountain

    Posted · Edited by Benm

    12 minutes ago, RidgeRacer said:

    You’re macking with Cheryl. Lol

    They were willing to give me 50. I told them I just wanted a public apology. I did manage to get a mgrs email which I will be sending a msg to tomorrow. 

    It took a second agent for that. 99pct sure Cheryl was a bot or a mix of human/bot

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  17. January 7

    in Blue Mountain

    Posted · Edited by Benm

    11 minutes ago, saltyant said:

    Details 

    I'm almost convinced it's chatgpt.

     

    Or maybe they just passed me to a bot since I'm bullshittjng

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  20. Seriously, WTF is with this Weather?

    in General Chat

    Posted · Edited by Benm

    14 minutes ago, RidgeRacer said:

    Yeah it looks legit out there. I haven’t gone out yet and the sun isn’t up of course but at first glance it looks good. Not sure how heavy, wet the snow is but Bens right…9 or 10 at least. @JFskiDan what are you seeing? Of course blue could be a whole different ballgame.

    Way lighter than i originally expected. Like right in the middle of dust and concrete. Would prob make good snowmen. 

    Cameras are showing some kind of precip tho. Not sure what it is. I don't think it's snow tho. Boooooo

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