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spwrozek posted:I honestly don't have good advice but if you can't ski every weekday at Beaver Creek while you are here (you can book days I think 1-2 weeks out) I will be shocked. Even on a giant powder day on the weekend Beaver Creek is pretty dead. I woudln't be too worried. Do you have touring gear? you would be all set if you do. Ok, this makes me feel a lot better. As for dates, we should be arriving on the 1st of February, and then driving home on the 28th. I am somewhat hoping my local school district is still doing online school, because if that is the case my son can come with me and that might influence my picks. If he comes he will have to do school everyday from 9-1 or so online, but we are 200 feet from the Beaver Creek gondola that he should still have enough time to get an hour or two of turns in during the weekdays, but would probably want to secure some days for his weekend. If he doesn't come it will be just me and I am fine not to ski weekends when it is busy out and have those be my rest days, so in that particular case the reservation worries have a bit more play to them. I am not quite good enough (skill and physical) for touring yet, will have to save that for sometime in the future.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Ok, this makes me feel a lot better. As for dates, we should be arriving on the 1st of February, and then driving home on the 28th. I am somewhat hoping my local school district is still doing online school, because if that is the case my son can come with me and that might influence my picks. If he comes he will have to do school everyday from 9-1 or so online, but we are 200 feet from the Beaver Creek gondola that he should still have enough time to get an hour or two of turns in during the weekdays, but would probably want to secure some days for his weekend. If he doesn't come it will be just me and I am fine not to ski weekends when it is busy out and have those be my rest days, so in that particular case the reservation worries have a bit more play to them. I feel like the kid question makes it tricky. You probably will want to lock in the weekends in case he does come. You will probably be able to ski all during the week no problem (worst case you have the option of Beaver Creek, Vail, Breck, and Keystone). I would be really surprised if you didn't get 20 days in or so. You are also past the big holidays and before spring break so I would expect more local/Denver people (but also who the gently caress knows).
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Making things even more complicated, Epic now says they might drop the reservation system mid season. https://theknow.denverpost.com/2020/09/18/vail-resorts-reservations-2020-2021-season/245586/
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So my Epic pass was scheduled to Auto-renew on the 15th, which it did, only instead of charging the credit card on my account they charged an old credit card that's now been cancelled and hasn't been linked to that account in months. I call them to change the card number and I just immediately get hung up on. Great work, thanks Vail!
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Sep 21, 2020 21:41
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Putting half the US ski industry in that basket probably not the best thing that could have happened.
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I loving hate Vail so much and you have no idea how much I hope they sell the resort to someone--anyone--else. I would literally rather the CEO of this mountain be a traffic cone that's been run over a bunch of times than Rob Katz.
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HookShot posted:I loving hate Vail so much and you have no idea how much I hope they sell the resort to someone--anyone--else. I would literally rather the CEO of this mountain be a traffic cone that's been run over a bunch of times than Rob Katz. I hear Pano is shopping for more resorts 
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HookShot posted:So my Epic pass was scheduled to Auto-renew on the 15th, which it did, only instead of charging the credit card on my account they charged an old credit card that's now been cancelled and hasn't been linked to that account in months. Yeah, I don't trust them with things like that. I had a CC linked to my pass to buy some overpriced mountain drinks and every time I tried to use it, it didn't work.
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Bilirubin posted:I hear Pano is shopping for more resorts Lol do you really think Pano can afford more than like Mt Baldy? I ended up physically going to guest services and changing it there so let’s hope it’s right now!
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Sep 22, 2020 15:10
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Ended up buying an Epic Local pass for me/my wife. The passes end up being $420 each (lol) with the discount, so it was hard to pass that up. Worst case I guess we'll ski at Stowe for a week?
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I got an Epic Australia pass for 2021. hoping our government lets us depart as tourists sometime before the northern hemisphere season is done. Finland might work. otherwise i guess I just hold out hope that the world is somewhat saner come winter NH 21 and i can get back to niseko or BC.
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https://twitter.com/liftblog/status/1309223048059314176 Gee I wonder if gating access while boosting sales could backfire.
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Sep 24, 2020 21:44
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its going to be such a poo poo show this year
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Sep 24, 2020 21:54
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I think Vail isn't going to give a poo poo what they do to the guests this year, just suck in every dollar to sure up against their huge losses last season and hope everyone writes it off to it just being a rough year because of covid.
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Because I'm in negotiations with multiple resorts on handling ski race season, I've learned a lot more about the approach for this coming season for the mountains in the Northeast. There are a lot of plans but no one is sure what's going to happen. It's gonna be a merciless shitshow. Reservations, numerical limits, temp scanning, limited lodge access, etc. This doesn't even get to the question of cross state mandatory quarantines which I'm certain will be violated.
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Sep 24, 2020 22:08
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Yuns posted:This doesn't even get to the question of cross state mandatory quarantines which I'm certain will be violated.
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drat Aspen Ski Co making Vail look like saints. Talk about being not great to the locals who run all the poo poo to make it possible. The weekday only pass is not as horrible (still $1000) but man. The unlimited going up $320 though.... https://www.aspentimes.com/news/asp...sh_notification
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Yuns posted:Because I'm in negotiations with multiple resorts on handling ski race season, I've learned a lot more about the approach for this coming season for the mountains in the Northeast. There are a lot of plans but no one is sure what's going to happen. It's gonna be a merciless shitshow. Reservations, numerical limits, temp scanning, limited lodge access, etc. This doesn't even get to the question of cross state mandatory quarantines which I'm certain will be violated. We’re working on a plan to let schools/teams have freeride clubs, but aren’t planning on having a competition season. I can’t imagine trying this is the NE with all the different jurisdictions.
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spwrozek posted:drat Aspen Ski Co making Vail look like saints. Talk about being not great to the locals who run all the poo poo to make it possible. The weekday only pass is not as horrible (still $1000) but man. The unlimited going up $320 though.... I dunno, what Aspen is doing here makes a lot more sense to me than what Vail is doing. It's kind of a hedge between 'we don't want to have a totally unlimited product this season' and 'we think having a reservation system will be very hosed up'. I think the reality is though nobody is going to be able to ski every day no matter how much they want to this season, in bounds. I feel like they should be finding a way to make it more flexible for the locals though. Disinterested fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Sep 25, 2020 |
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Disinterested posted:I dunno, what Aspen is doing here makes a lot more sense to me than what Vail is doing. It's kind of a hedge between 'we don't want to have a totally unlimited product this season' and 'we think having a reservation system will be very hosed up'. Fair points. I guess I would rather see the out of towners pay more which helps limit travel during the current pandemic than put that on the locals.
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How is local eligibility determined for the local pass, just a local address? That seems like a difficulty in Aspen, where a not insignificant number of rich people own a second (or third or whatever) home.
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Sep 25, 2020 17:25
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There are a handful of long out of business ski resorts in my state. I suspect I'm going to be doing some illegal hiking there if we have enough natural snow this season just to get some extra turns in.
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bawfuls posted:How is local eligibility determined for the local pass, just a local address? That seems like a difficulty in Aspen, where a not insignificant number of rich people own a second (or third or whatever) home. It is tied to your place of work being part of the chamber of commerce if I recall correctly. Eejit would know since his business is part of this whole deal.
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spwrozek posted:It is tied to your place of work being part of the chamber of commerce if I recall correctly. Eejit would know since his business is part of this whole deal. That's for the chamber passes. You don't have to be a chamber member to get the new local "Valley" Aspen passes this year, it's tied to your address. You need to show ID with a RFV address so theoretically second/third/seventh homeowners won't qualify or will at least have to jump through some hoops. The chamber premier pass (which is what Eejit and I and most serious local skiers get) went up $320 but we also got a $150 credit since last season ended early. And they usually raise prices a bit each season. So overall not a huge hit. I'll take that over a reservation system any day... most of my skiing is spur of the moment quick laps these days, so a reservation system would suck in my particular case. The weekend warriors get predictably screwed since they eliminated the one and two day per week passes. If you're a weekend skier you either get the 7 pack or have to shell out for a premier pass. ironlung fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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Laserface posted:I got an Epic Australia pass for 2021. Aussies have always been pretty funny/cool ski people working at NA resorts and running into around the world at hostels and what no. Until I went skiing in hokkaido and every Aussie was like, "make sure you americans don't ruin Hokkaido this is our secret spot..." Shut the gently caress up you don't even loving have snow or a ski culture. in fact our mtns in the PNW are further north in LATITUDE than hokkaido and we are 4,000 loving km closer. I highly recommend snow spraying the poo poo out of every poo poo skiing aussie in japan for these reasons.
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das_bill posted:Aussies have always been pretty funny/cool ski people working at NA resorts and running into around the world at hostels and what no. Until I went skiing in hokkaido and every Aussie was like, "make sure you americans don't ruin Hokkaido this is our secret spot..." what the gently caress is this
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my therapist told me to let go of my passive aggressive NW roots and just be a dick more often. I'm snow spraying all aussies as hard as I can this year for literally every one I met in japan telling me it was "theirs" and that people from other parts of the world are ruining it. WE ARE ALL LITERALLY JUST SKIING.
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Sep 26, 2020 21:39
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You sound like kind of a dickhead hth
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I mean, I guess that is a plan, but have you considered treating other riders like humans?
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I was seriously taken aback by the amount of aussies who acted like anyone not from japan or australia had no right to be there. As someone who has taught skiing for a decade it made me real mad, since the point of skiing is to snow spray everyone equally around the world.
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I'm in the capital of insanely aggro people and fist fighting as some of my prior posts have shown so by comparison every place I've been to outside of my home resort is filled with gentlemen and ladies.
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das_bill posted:I was seriously taken aback by the amount of aussies who acted like anyone not from japan or australia had no right to be there. As someone who has taught skiing for a decade it made me real mad, since the point of skiing is to snow spray everyone equally around the world. A lot of people we talked to in Japan did not like Aussies FWIW.
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das_bill posted:I was seriously taken aback by the amount of aussies who acted like anyone not from japan or australia had no right to be there. As someone who has taught skiing for a decade it made me real mad, since the point of skiing is to snow spray everyone equally around the world. Or just ski like a regular person instead of being an rear end in a top hat?
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Australians going to another country and then complaining about foreigners is super on-brand for most Australians tbh
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HookShot posted:Australians
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Is now when I complain about out of towners?
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Also my rear end does feel chafed a bit by the pass price increase. Even with the credit from last year, I wish they found some other way to incentivize spreading out and skiing weekdays. Because like, 1650 or whatever I'm going to end up paying, is a lot of money. A lot. And it feels really unfair to the locals to foist a huge price increase on us while most of us are also still dealing with the economic fallout of Covid
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Eejit posted:Is now when I complain about out of towners? At least until October.
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HookShot posted:Australians going to another country and then complaining about foreigners is super on-brand for most Australians tbh I'm Australian and I complain about Australians where ever I find them on this planet. We always manage to ruin somewhere.
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