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Here is a side profile pic of the butter box jump
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Hey PASR,
I am a lift guy and not a park guy, first. But i was in the park helping out and theres some new rails put in that havent been used lately. There is also something like a step on to a snow made big butter box to a step off. Atleast thats what i call it. The guys who are up here now love the new features. You guys probably call it something else. It looks like fun to me. Just thought you guys on here would like to know. Thanks,
Sno Mountain Lift Dept.
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She was from the times newspaper. She was doing something like "out and about in ne PA"
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based on reports, I would say that the website quality is in porportion to the rest of the operation, especially the parks... at least that is the feeling I get.
It feels amatuerish.
Hay papa,
I know you like bashing , But I would leave operations alone. I really dont think you know anything about operations at Sno. You like arguements on here and it isnt productive towards anything. Thank you for your time.
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Guys this topic is all over the place... Let me try to help with some facts..
Everyone is saying a 22 is too big right? We only have a 13' pipe right now. We wanted to upgrade, so why go to an 18' pipe when we could of got the only 22' on the east. Does it cost alot to build a 22' ? Hell yes. Can we do it in 4 days? Hell no. Do we already have the snow stock piled and mostly pushed into place for one of the walls? Yes. Do we have 3 huge jumps sitting next to it that can be used for the walls ? Yes Was there dirt work done? Yes We couldnt get the walls built out of dirt but we graded the trail to perfection so we dont waste any snow that we dont have to. When construction resumes on the water park this summer it will produce fill that we can use for the dirt work on the walls of the 22'.
With this all said the summary is that we already started along time ago making snow for the 22' and if weather cooperates we will have it in less time than you would think becuase we are not starting from 0. Ryan guys will be teaching our guys how to build it. We are not as dumb as some people seem to think. We do have a plan and as some people have said " give us a chance" . No one believed us when we said we are getting a 22" We got bashed on here for saying it. Guess what? We came true with our promise. We are a young resort but we do know what we are doing. I hope some of these facts help out.
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hey Liftguy......
how about a clock in the lodge???
the outlet is right there above the video games!!!
surely the mountain can afford that! sheesh!
I'm tired of people asking me what time it is!
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I really dont have much to do with the lodge, but I will pass it along to the right people.
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Is a HS Quad in the plans?
HS quad is in the plans. Nothing is definate. we have a long list of items we wanna do. As you know we have a water park to build aslo. It is a young resort we have big plans. We just need sometime to do everything. Just like in our own lives you cant buy everything at once. The one thing I can tell you is that the management as well as the employees are excited about making sno mountain a great resort. There is a lot that goes into purchasing a new lift. Like location,quad or sixpack, brand......etc. You will see one here it is just a matter of time. Hope this helps you out.
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SnoMtnSkiers suggestion made me think 101..
101. Heres the thought, why not hire a Ryan Neptune type to be on site all the time, someone who already knows the answers to questions like this?
How about 102 ? We want to know what the people riding the park wants. Anyone could build what they think works. There is more than one person riding the park so why would you want only one persons suggestions. Santa you are on the right track. Get everyones opion and you will have the best park.
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The ride takes about 11-12 minutes to ride up long haul?
How many feet of vertical is it?
10 minutes to go 1000 vertical feet and 1 mile. I really dont think thats too bad.
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The plan is to reinforce what we have and to blow on runway anf fasttrack. If all goes well you should see them for the weekend. Depending on how long the cold snap lasts for. We did alot of testing to make sure we make every hour count.
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It is ridiculous that they have to fly a guy in to work on their park when there's already so much talent in the NEPA area.
Its not a shame that we need to fly someone in. We just wanted the best. We are not afraid to say we need to learn. Thats what Ryans job is. To teach us how to have the best park.
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Hey guys,
Sorry it took so long to reply ,but I have long hours. Rest assure I heard of the lifty not holding the chair very quickly. We do train our lifties. It is approx. a 4 hour training. From holding chairs to customer friendliness and to safety. I am sorry that the liftie didnt hold the chair. The problem was addressed. With 200 employees just in lifts you do get a couple bad ones. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I will not put up with bad lifties. I would run short staffed before using an employee who is no good. I try to do my best with picking lifties but some just dont work out. Just like in any business.I hope that everyone enjoys there experience with sno mtn. If there are more problems with lifties just post it. Thanks
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Well everyone has an opinion on everything we do.....
So lets hear your opinion on how you guys would like to see the park set up. This is a chance for you to speak up before we build the park. I know our park guy reads these topics. Right Mike?. Sno mountain wants to be on the same level as our guest. We want the best park around and your info will makes us the best park. Keep in mind that we won't build jumps to the moon. It has to be a safe and sick park. We need to find that spot. If it is a realalistic goal we will do our best to meet it. I know last year some guys didnt want all the jumps to be the same style. They wanted them mixed up etc... step up, step down, booter.
Guys I just want to say that it is a pretty good thing that sno comes onto this site to see what you guys have to say. I listen good and bad. I really dont see any other resort going this far to try to make there guests happy. We are here right in the open. Believe me we took ours shots in stride. But we listen and do our best to correct them. Will we do everything right, most likely not, but we can limit what we do wrong. You guys are going to determine whats right or wrong. Bottom line...
your the customer and we want you guys to love every trip up to our mountain.
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It is pretty bad day today so dont go nuts if Ryan does not do anything today. I promise that he will do something as soon as the snow hardens up enough. It is my understanding that his crew is here through the weekend.
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anymore rails or anything on mainline?
Ryan Neptune and his boys are coming in on wednesday to add to the park on mainline.
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was there a point in having the fly cam? anyway we can see videos from it?
and can anyone find videos from news stations? I heard wyou and wnep got some stuff, but i cant find it anywhere.
You going to be able to get a high def dvd of the event. We will post it on the web site when available plus we are going to run the dvd on the lodge tvs for everyone to see. This way you guys can become celebrities. I want to see someone fron sno on the tour!
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guess your right....
but the park on spike looked like it was set up really well. does anyone know why it wasnt open?
edit: I forgot to tell you guys this in the report but... I only saw 3 other skiers & riders on the mountain yesterday!! there was literraly noone there. I didnt see anyone on the NF at all. is it like that all the time?
Hey ,
The park was closed so that we could rebuild it for the park comp. With the rain it really hurt conditions and we wanted to start over and build it up for the comp.
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So what was the deal with the kid "catching" chairs at the bottom of Iron Horse at 11:30 this morning? He's the guy with a beard, but not much of a mustache (there's another guy with a full beard and mustache who was catching them just fine).
Anyway, the first time we go to get on the chair, he doesn't even touch it and my 6 yr old gets wacked so hard that she cried halfway up the lift. So when we lap back around and get to the lift I asked him to please catch the chair, especially when there's a little kid getting on.
What's he do? Just as the chair gets to us, he put his hands behind his back.
WTF?
I tried to take most of the impact, but I have to also lift her onto the seat a little, so she got hit pretty hard again. I turned around from the chair and asked what his problem was and he told me to fuck myself.
Nice...
It also happened to my friend's little boy, but his dad was able to catch the chair himself the second time. But it ended my kid's day with badly bruised legs.
Pretty screwed up thing to do.
Sorry to hear about this!
I will talk to this gentlman on his next shift. This is not the way i want my lifties to be. You can trust me that he will be in trouble if not fired. I hope that you give us another shot. I try to weed these kind of employees out as best as i can. Sometimes they get by though. I am glad that you brought this to me attention, though. I cant watch these kids all the time so its great to hear that i could find out about stuff through here. Please let me know if you have any more problems. Again I am very sorry for this.
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Guys I'm lookin for some input on our park. I'm good friends with our park manager and with the planet boys.Let me know how you liked it this year and what you expect from us next year!
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Oh Ok.... well you seem to be representing the scene for sno - so in the category of - I think you should know...............
Apparently - you HAD an employee there who also competes in park. He won his regional division and was sent to represent Sno at the National Championship event that will be televised in April called the Jeep Terrain Park Challenge. NOW.......... word has it, that Sno would not secure this employees job and allow him to take time off to go to this event.
A radio show out of San Frnacisco caught wind of this and decided to call this boss and put him on the air... I don't know exactly what happened with the radio show or whether they got a hold of him or what. There just seems to be something really wrong with this whole picture and thought you should know.
I hope that that kid gets his job back and any other deserving perks for someone who has spent thier life there along with representing Sno on a televised National level should get. capiche?
I really dont know who this was. i'll try to find out. I had a liftie go last year and we gave him the time off. I would want him up there to represent. If an employee told me of an event he'd get it off. Being a boss for sometime now tells me that there is probaly more to the story.
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Some easy suggestions:
Blow snow nightly on the NF headwalls, that was great when you did it.
Run the new top to bottom Quad (or longhaul if quad doesn't happen) during the week, not just weekends like longhaul.
Get ride of the RFID lift tickets, it takes way too much time to scan them, and they can't be scanned if they are on your wrist under gloves or jacket.
Childrens lessons ticketing and sign up in the same spot instead of having to go to 2 different buildings.
Some compliments:
Childrens ski school instructors were great and much more valuable lessons than at JF or CB.
Your snow was great this year for what little time there was.
Everyone working at Sno was really nice.
In general, a much better, nicer place to go with better trails and snow than CB or JF. Easier to get to and noticeably better snowmaking than Elk.
My favorite place this year. See you next year.
We do and will blow snow for conditions when ever possible. our goal is blow big at first get the trail open than dust whenever possilbe for great skiin/ boardin. Long Haul.. thats always been a request, Im the lift director. I' ll do what I'm told but people just dont use that lift alot. The best i could say is to get everyone who likes it to ride it or request it and if its enough i would beat that the owners tell me to run in 24/7. We lookin at updating the drive in the lift which is very expensive, so we are planning on using the lift, and takin care of it. From what i heard those scanners are going to be history.I'll pass on to ski shcool about the buildings. thats for some compliments too its good to hear
Hey Lift guy.. answer this question..I have no idea who you are talking about
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New lighting (or added lights) is a top priority for next year, especially on the park. From what i understand they will be installing all new and automatic lights for next year, if this idea is only just being tossed around, it needs to be bumped towards the top.
Need more special events, deals, and other promotions if you want to attract a crowd. Once they get there and see how much they like the place they will be hooked.
Lose those cheesy a$% commercials please! They beat jimmy and johny, but not much else. Advertising for "loki's terrain park" with 1 clip of someone hitting a jump in a blurred background doesn't do much in showing what Sno's terrain park has to offer. Get some actually footage of features in the parks. Also don't forget to include mainline in the count of "2 terrain parks, possibly 3 for next year.
I know this is in the works but : park passes. Do some research and find out how some other popular mountains do it. Realistically, passes really only need to be implemented on weekends until Sno blows up. But don't do a daily sort of pass. Charge $5 for the year (throw that money into the park) and require a short video that goes over what NOT to do in the terrain park. A video with the actual features at Sno would be nice, but not necessary. Make the video available to be watched when we go to pick up our season passes.
Pre-season rail jams.
Pre-season video launches, singings, free food, anything to get the kids itching for snow to make the drive and see what Sno has to offer.
Blow a huge base on the park to keep it open as late as possible. Boomer too.
These are just my opinions, don't jump down my throat if you disagree, just state why you think it shouldn't be done. I'll add more but soon i have to wake up and drag my tired behind up to work there tomorrow, i'll keep my eye open for some improvements.
Glad to hear some ideas. Yes new lights are on the project list for next year. As for lights in the park... We new that we most likely would of had lighting problems this year in there, but it was just too late in the season to fix it. It was tough with being bought so late. The parks next year will be very well lit up. As for the events.... We know. We are looking for a good qualifed canidate for that position right now. That will be his/her job to get events back here. We are even thinking about bring back the once a week big air job in from of the lodge with a ram jam area next to it with its own rails. Not ones from the park. This would be hopefully a once a week comp. As for video from the park? The fly cam for the comp on sat is going to shoot a commercal sat. So any of you good fling artist out there want to be on tv show up. this will be a high def camera too. Park passes.... Yes wer are looking into them. We want to make sure we have beginner parks first before we have park passes. We are going to visit other mountains though too. Idealy we want a expert park with experts in it, and beginner park with beginners and novice park with novice. We had alot to try to get done this season in a very short time. We know we have more. But we have a young staff willing to do what it takes. with the commercials ill get with our advertising people and pass on your opions.
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Liftguy, I had mention a while back about starting a thread with a wish list of improvements for Sno. I was going to wait until the end of the season but since your offer, maybe now is the time.
Since everyone could make long duplicate lists or make rediculous suggestions (like installing a tram or free tickets) I would suggest that forum members list what they feel would be the most important improvement for 07/08 and make one more suggestion that hasn't been previously listed. We could then make a poll from the list of suggestions or have members prioritize the list according their preferences. I could then summarize the list. This way you have one document to present to management. I think this would be more effective than having a long list of random suggestions, and give them a better idea of what their customers want or feel is important.
Any other Sno skiers have any suggestions on the above?
Maybe a requirement would be that you had to ski Sno at least once this year. (So you better get there Doug!
)That would be great. The new owners are great. They are open minded and the best is that they listen to thier employees. We are willing to listen to it all. A list of this sort would really prove to the owners that people do like the new mountain, and that people want to see it get better. The new zipline that is coming is going to be open year round. Any help you guys give me to steer Sno Mtn. in the right direction would be great.
Liftguy, Caps lock=Stupid...Also, do you know Gary Collins?
Sorry for the cap locks. I am a ski lift guy, not very good at spelling or typing. Therefore you guys will most likey bust me on typos. As for Gary Collins... he works for me. We call him by buttons though. So the next time you see him call him buttons.
That would be great. The new owners are great. They are open minded and the best is that they listen to thier employees. We are willing to listen to it all. A list of this sort would really prove to the owners that people do like the new mountain, and that people want to see it get better. The new zipline that is coming is going to be open year round. Any help you guys give me to steer Sno Mtn. in the right direction would be great.Sorry for the cap locks. I am a ski lift guy, not very good at spelling or typing. Therefore you guys will most likey bust me on typos. As for Gary Collins... he works for me. We call him by buttons though. So the next time you see him call him buttons.
By the way guys..... Thanks for the info. We at Sno Mtn really want to see the mountain do good, and get better. I know we have along road ahead of us due to montage's rep.Also I will pass on the concerns for a cheaper ticket.
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THEY ARE ACTUALLY PONDERING A COUPLE IDEAS LIKE THAT WHEN I GO TO WORK THIS EVENING ILL TRY TO FIND OUT ANYTHING MORE.THEY ARE OFFERING A MARCH PASS FOR $129. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD FOR ALL OF MARCH. WHICH I THINK WAS A GREAT DEAL. RIGHT NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO TRY US WITH THE SPRING SKIING CONDITIONS. GIVES US A CHANCE WE ARE A NEW MOUNTAIN.
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We have plans to make the landing longer as soon as it cools of a bit. We ran out of time when we built it. It was getting very warm. We opted to deal with the landing in order to not melt more snow with the cat that day. Plus it was getting late in the morning and we didnt want to hold up the park opening. I would think sunday morning would be the fisrt chance to extend it.