Big Snow indoor ski resort.

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Here’s a good article on Big Snow indoor ski area.  They’re currently doing about 2,000 skier visits a day and projected to do 500,000 a year a lot of the focus is on teaching new skiers and snowboarders. 

 

https://coloradosun.com/2020/01/09/big-snow-new-jersey-ski-industry-indoor/

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3 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Here’s a good article on Big Snow indoor ski area.  They’re currently doing about 2,000 skier visits a day and projected to do 500,000 a year a lot of the focus is on teaching new skiers and snowboarders. 

 

https://coloradosun.com/2020/01/09/big-snow-new-jersey-ski-industry-indoor/

That should make Ski2live happy to see. It is an interesting article about the place and I look forward to drinking there after skiing this summer. 

[Shadows]

the amount of overly long hyphens in that article is frustrating. interesting read though. I think 'entrepreneur' is the wrong term but ok. 

lets go ski it

[indiggio]

I bet they do a lot of whistling at fast skiers.

[momskeeztoo]

I’d probably try it, but only in the summer. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

2 minutes ago, momskeeztoo said:

I’d probably try it, but only in the summer. 

I’m thinking once this summer and then never again. 

[momskeeztoo]

I understand what they’re trying to do. It’s just not the same as being outside, with conditions that can vary daily or hourly. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

3 hours ago, momskeeztoo said:

I understand what they’re trying to do. It’s just not the same as being outside, with conditions that can vary daily or hourly. 

Skiing in 47 different snow conditions repeatedly and being competent in them is something that takes decades 

[enjoralas]

On 1/10/2020 at 6:30 PM, Shadows said:

the amount of overly long hyphens in that article is frustrating.

Em dashes — long press the hyphen on your iPhone to get it

[Ski2Live Live2Ski]

More likely to go there than to the other NJ options

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

45 minutes ago, Ski2Live Live2Ski said:

More likely to go there than to the other NJ options

Don’t you like mountain creek @eaf loves it there 

[momskeeztoo]

1 hour ago, Ski2Live Live2Ski said:

More likely to go there than to the other NJ options

I’d be more likely to drive right through NJ into Pa or NY to ski. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

What a shitshow.  Fire alarm in American Dream and collisions. 

 

 

[EdBacon]

Big Snow Indoor Ski Resort sounds like what somebody would call their cocaine party. 

[Icecoast]

I wonder how much longer campgaw will stay open. Their demographic is people in the city and urban nj areas looking for an easy place to learn, and big snow seems poised to capture those people.

[Ski2Live Live2Ski]

18 hours ago, rgrwilco said:

I wonder how much longer campgaw will stay open. Their demographic is people in the city and urban nj areas looking for an easy place to learn, and big snow seems poised to capture those people.

Good point. Campgaw has not much more vertical (240 vs 160), has more expensive tix (good for a longer time, but how long do people spend somewhere this size), is further from NYC and is generally gonna have worse weather and conditions. 

The main thing Campgaw would seem to have going for it as a differentiator is snow tubing (kind of surprised they did not include tubing at Big Snow).

[Icecoast]

Good point. Campgaw has not much more vertical (240 vs 160), has more expensive tix (good for a longer time, but how long do people spend somewhere this size), is further from NYC and is generally gonna have worse weather and conditions. 
The main thing Campgaw would seem to have going for it as a differentiator is snow tubing (kind of surprised they did not include tubing at Big Snow).

Campgaw also has some longer windier trails off the side and from the YouTube videos I looked up a pretty good park. I might have to stop on the way home from hunter one day for a few turns just in case.


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[Ski2Live Live2Ski]

Big Snow has a park too. Didn't see any of those windy trails open the one time I went to Campgaw (when I worked about 15 min away). Basically was just one wide flat gentle slope at that time.