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Yeah, I've travelled with more gear internationally than probably anyone in this thread (and still almost cry with happiness every time I walk past the oversize luggage counter and don't have anything to drop off) and honestly spwrozek is right: the only annoying part is the actual travelling. As long as you're not moving to a different resort every 2 days it's fine.
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Snowing again and I cant go ski 🥺. Hope everyone stays healthy. Maybe the 20/21 season is going to be really really good.
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Skistar finally announced that they will close their Swedish mountains (Åre, Sälen, Vemdalen) for the season, after being forced to close their norwegian hills (trysil, hemsedal) almost 3 weeks ago. They're closing them starting April 6th which is the start of the easter vacation for most of sweden. I really don't get Skistar's and Sweden's strategy, beyond chasing as much money as possible.
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Lol, my dad excitedly sent me an April Fool's article about Ikon and Epic passes merging Come on man, look at a calendar
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The Glumslinger posted:Lol, my dad excitedly sent me an April Fool's article about Ikon and Epic passes merging I got this from a friend as well. Haha
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Apr 2, 2020 16:11
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Not an April Fools: RIP Vail capital investments. Also furloughing basically the entire hourly workforce and canceling stock dividends.
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Apr 3, 2020 01:33
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Uncle Lloyd posted:Not an April Fools: RIP Vail capital investments. Also furloughing basically the entire hourly workforce and canceling stock dividends. Surely they’ll get bailed out if it gets to breaking point
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Rated PG-34 posted:Surely they’ll get bailed out if it gets to breaking point It's not going to; they're hanging onto capital so that they can take advantage of any fire sales of borderline bankrupt ski resorts.
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Apr 3, 2020 01:49
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HookShot posted:It's not going to; they're hanging onto capital so that they can take advantage of any fire sales of borderline bankrupt ski resorts. Well naturally. But if skiing is dead for a couple years and poo poo really goes south, surely they’ll get some sweet bailout money
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The big resort companies are pretty hosed they've been splurging huge in war with eachother and now they are staring down the barrel of losing 1/3 of their revenue this year and as much as all of it next season if projections continue to hold true.
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Good for them for cutting the CEO and board salary to $0. Shame on them for not cutting the rest of the executive's salaries to $0. Listen it's not like they're all going to give themselves retroactive back pay and raises for their suffering and sacrifices through all this. gently caress Vail.
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Apr 3, 2020 04:07
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Disinterested posted:The big resort companies are pretty hosed they've been splurging huge in war with eachother and now they are staring down the barrel of losing 1/3 of their revenue this year and as much as all of it next season if projections continue to hold true. Can you expand on those projections?
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http://avbullvis.avalancheresearch.ca/quote:The Avalanche Research Program at Simon Fraser University, Avalanche Canada and several U.S. Avalanche Centers are conducting an online survey to examine how backcountry recreationists—skiers, mountain snowmobilers, snowshoers and ice climbers—use public avalanche safety information.
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Moot .1415926535 posted:Can you expand on those projections? The studies on the virus policymakers have been using suggest that 2/3 of the time between now and a vaccine being developed people have to practice aggressive social distancing. The timeline to a viable vaccine implementation is projected at 18 months or longer. That's per both HHS and Imperial College.
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Mt. Washington is fully closed because of all the people violating social distancing rules and NH lockdown in the backcountry. MWA had to conduct 2 rescues including a rescue of a person who turned out to be an EMT who had been exposed to coronavirus patients (he got cliffed out at Tuckerman and called 911 to be belayed to safety).
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Good share. I had it on my list to complete and this pushed me to get it done. I really like the route decision stuff, that was cool.
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Disinterested posted:The studies on the virus policymakers have been using suggest that 2/3 of the time between now and a vaccine being developed people have to practice aggressive social distancing. The timeline to a viable vaccine implementation is projected at 18 months or longer. That's per both HHS and Imperial College. This is a pretty accurate analysis I think. The biggest issue is the destination aspect of skiing. People from all over the world come. Vail already mentioned their summer stuff may be completely cancelled. I was hoping to get a little downhill biking in this summer. We shall see.
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All the fresh snow on the mountains is really not helping!!!!
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Yuns posted:Mt. Washington is fully closed because of all the people violating social distancing rules and NH lockdown in the backcountry. MWA had to conduct 2 rescues including a rescue of a person who turned out to be an EMT who had been exposed to coronavirus patients (he got cliffed out at Tuckerman and called 911 to be belayed to safety).
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There's a fine for uphilling on closed slopes? I thought it was a please play nice, we can't actually enforce it because it's NFS land
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Eejit posted:There's a fine for uphilling on closed slopes? I thought it was a please play nice, we can't actually enforce it because it's NFS land quote:"Violation of these prohibitions is punishable by a fine of not more than $5000.00 for an individual or $10,000.00 for an organization, or imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both (16 U.S.C., 18 U.S.C. 3559 and 3571)." USFS is basically fed up too.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HrIVWziJ0Y
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that is awesome
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Eejit posted:There's a fine for uphilling on closed slopes? I thought it was a please play nice, we can't actually enforce it because it's NFS land Whistler is threatening to pull peoples' passes for next season if they get caught. If there is a next season, anyway...
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Eejit posted:There's a fine for uphilling on closed slopes? I thought it was a please play nice, we can't actually enforce it because it's NFS land They specifically said uphill travel was cool here  
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In an interview last week the COO at Aspen also confirmed they're not going to mess with uphilling. They've actually been "grooming" popular uphill routes too. Whether or not that's just as the cats go by while doing maintenance at on mountain facilities, I don't know but bless them
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Eejit posted:In an interview last week the COO at Aspen also confirmed they're not going to mess with uphilling. They've actually been "grooming" popular uphill routes too. Whether or not that's just as the cats go by while doing maintenance at on mountain facilities, I don't know but bless them Yeah I think you guys are far enough away from people that it is doable. There is also a good uphill culture there. I can just imagine the amount of people who would drive up from Denver and hike up keystone.
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Can someone who knows more about this than me tell me why the adhesive on my skins is coming off onto the bottom of my board in big chunks? I have a skin saver I hang them on every time after use, and generally am careful to take good care of them. But I had a glue patch the size of my hand stuck to my board today which is not a great friction situation.
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That horrified me for a sec before I checked what thread this was in
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ante posted:That horrified me for a sec before I checked what thread this was in 
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Moot .1415926535 posted:Can someone who knows more about this than me tell me why the adhesive on my skins is coming off onto the bottom of my board in big chunks? I have a skin saver I hang them on every time after use, and generally am careful to take good care of them. But I had a glue patch the size of my hand stuck to my board today which is not a great friction situation. What skins and how long have you had them? After a few seasons most will do this and you need to reglue them. I find G3 to be the worst for this. BD seems a bit better. Pomoca skins are by far the best for glue life. My next skins will be glueless/hybrid glue: https://www.backcountryaccess.com/product/contour-climbing-skins/
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spwrozek posted:I find G3 to be the worst for this. Yes. I have G3's on my current AT setup, never again.
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I am extremely happy with my Pomoca skins
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Yep, they’re the grippiest G3’s I could find. My splitboard is full rocker twin tip so not a whole lot of contact area going uphill.
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Uncle Lloyd posted:Not an April Fools: RIP Vail capital investments. Also furloughing basically the entire hourly workforce and canceling stock dividends. What do we think this means for that email we got regarding how they'd be taking care of 19/20 epic pass holders? 
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Residency Evil posted:What do we think this means for that email we got regarding how they'd be taking care of 19/20 epic pass holders? Be glad you haven't purchased a 20/21 pass yet? No one is getting anything back from anyone. I have 4 copper day tickets that I was going to use during spring break when people were visiting. They basically had told me I am SOL (even just transfer them to next year was a no go).
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spwrozek posted:Be glad you haven't purchased a 20/21 pass yet? No one is getting anything back from anyone. I have 4 copper day tickets that I was going to use during spring break when people were visiting. They basically had told me I am SOL (even just transfer them to next year was a no go). sorry, should have made the sarcasm more obvious.
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Residency Evil posted:sorry, should have made the sarcasm more obvious. Ha, under normal times I am sure you were.
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Residency Evil posted:What do we think this means for that email we got regarding how they'd be taking care of 19/20 epic pass holders? Seriously though, long-term I wonder if this affects Vail's business a bit more. I saw a lot of complaints from people who had bought their epic passes in November to be able to use them for Spring Break, and they straight-up paid $945 or whatever it was for zero days this year, because all the mountains closed before spring break really started. My bet is a lot of people are going to be much more hesitant to drop $1000 per person on lift tickets in November for a trip that's not until six months later.
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HookShot posted:Seriously though, long-term I wonder if this affects Vail's business a bit more. I saw a lot of complaints from people who had bought their epic passes in November to be able to use them for Spring Break, and they straight-up paid $945 or whatever it was for zero days this year, because all the mountains closed before spring break really started. My bet is a lot of people are going to be much more hesitant to drop $1000 per person on lift tickets in November for a trip that's not until six months later. If that was the case, I'd definitely be pissed. We only made it out for 4 days (out of a planned 8) this year, so not ideal, but not awful. I did just check how much the local pass was for next year and did it go up? For some reason I thought we paid <$700 last year, especially in the spring?
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