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  1. 2/29 question

    in Camelback

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    I haven't been to Blue or Camelback in a few years. How are lift lines midday on a Sunday at either? Which is better on a day like today? (Skiing with wife and 10yo, accessing mor of the beginner terrain).

     

    Thanks

  8. Tip for Blue employees

    in Blue Mountain

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    Stealing from your employer is not cool.

    How is this stealing? It sounds like the employees are provided with lift ticket vouchers as part of their compensation package. If it belongs to you, what's wrong with selling it at market price? If someone buys your pass, Blue Mt. gets the same result as if you gave the pass to your friend: another skier on the mountain who didn't pay for the mountain's services.

     

    Am I missing something here? It's not like you're going into the managers office and stealing a stack of free passes.

  10. How does Elk compare to Blue?

    in Blue Mountain

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    Snow quality is great...usually much better than Blue. Much less ice and hardpack. Great terrain as well.

     

    Elk's lifts may be slow, but the high speed lifts at Blue don't matter when there are 1000 people in line and you have to wait 15-20 minutes to get on a chair. Elk is usually not too crowded (not nearly as crowded as Blue on a weekend). I've done 28 runs on a weekend day at Elk...couldn't imagine doing that with Blue's weekend crowds.

     

    I love Blue, but Elk is much better. If you're going up for a full day of skiing, you're best bet is to drive the extra 80 minutes to Elk.

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  13. Improvements

    in Montage Mountain

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    How about more advertising in the Philly area? I don't ever hear about Sno down here. I don't think anybody knows about it (except for a few people who knew it as Montage before, but those are few and far between). More customers = more $$$ = more improvements elsewhere on the mountain.

  20. Website...

    in Montage Mountain

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    260 people with passes doesn't compare with the 5000-10000 people who come to a place like camelback or blue mountain or jfbb on a busy weekend. people down here in philly don't even know about Sno Mountain. If they are going to drive past Blue, CB, or JFBB, they're headed to Elk. If there were sufficient advertising here in Philly, reactions would be exactly as librider put it. Hey, here's a new place, maybe I'll check it out. I wonder how much it costs, how big it is, what the trail map looks like, how to get there. Hmm, where might I find this information...THE WEBSITE. If I never heard of a place and have to go out on a limb to try it out instead of the places I am familiar with, a website that looks like it was made by a 10 year old would probably turn me away. Why would I want to visit a place that doesn't take their business seriously enough to spend $10,000 on a good website?

     

    I'm not saying that we should want 5000-10000 people to visit Sno Mountain on any day. However, we certainly want their business to prosper. I'm not impressed by 260 passes...assuming they all paid full price, I don't think the $176k of revenue those passes brought in is paying for the millions that have been spent on that place in the last few years, let alone a few months of operations costs. Sno needs a steady stream of customers, and they'll need to draw them by every means necessary. I don't understand how, in this day and age, anybody could make a valid argument that having a website would not benefit a business. For a business like Sno, a website is key to providing information to the public.

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  23. Old pics of Blue park features

    in Blue Mountain

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    Hello everybody. I'm looking for pics of Blue's more ridiculous park features from the past. The crackerbarrel, unbanked C, the other "s" rail type contraption, and anything else you can think of. I searched through 25 pages of old posts, but all I found pics of was the swingset and bus.

     

    Thanks so much.

    i found this on youtube one time

  24. Blue Park Updates?

    in Blue Mountain

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    A couple years ago I was against them as I had the attitude that if you buy a lift ticket you should be able to ski everything and my rebuttal was always,"Well if there are park passes there should also Black diamond passes but I've spent more time in the park at Blue as I have befriended some Jibhonks and I see the frustration they go through with noobs camped out in the landings and people using lips to rails as jumps along with Smartstyle Violations. I don't think park passes should any money but you should sign a sheet saying you will follow the rules of Smartstyle..it would really help alot on weekday evenings as 75% of the school groups head for the park it seems when they should be on Crazy Mile..

    I'm all for a small fee for park passes - I'm sure the people who really care about the park wouldn't mind paying something like $5-10/day or $50/year to ride the park if this fee helped kept those who don't respect the rules out of there. If I was in your shoes and lived in the park, I know I would.

    The problem here is, after years of skiing at Blue Mt, I already count all of the trails as part of the value of paying for a lift ticket (or season pass in most of your cases). I wouldn't be thrilled about paying extra for the park if the lift ticket price remained the same, or if they didn't add some additional trails to the mountain. Essentially, if the parks became exclusive for those who paid the fee while the rest of the mountain was available to me at the same (or higher) price than I paid the year before for the whole mountain, I'd be paying the same or more money for less mountain. There's gotta be some offset there for this method to satisfy all parties.

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