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We just picked up this lovely thing as a rental and I wanted to name it Chateau Relaxo but got outvoted. Lame. But it’s snowing!
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Seven Springs was started with blackmail money 
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Dec 8, 2021 23:01
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SeaborneClink posted:https://www.vaildaily.com/news/vail-resorts-announces-acquisition-of-seven-springs-hidden-valley-and-laurel-mountain-ski-areas/ RIP to PA's best ski resort
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drat that’s my home resort  I’ll probably be making the trip to snow shoe more often this season now. alnilam posted:Seven Springs was started with blackmail money Have a link to this story?
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Macnult posted:RIP to PA's best ski resort
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dangling pointer posted:drat that’s my home resort It was word of mouth from a very knowledgeable local so no, but apparently it was land and money given to the founders' family to hush up an affair with... i wanna say one of the Fricks or maybe a Kaufman, one of the local magnates back then
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Moot .1415926535 posted:We just picked up this lovely thing as a rental and I wanted to name it Chateau Relaxo but got outvoted. Lame. Stunning
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bawfuls posted:I thought it was already a shitshow thanks to the miserly ownership of Bob Nutting, at least that’s what my PA-reared ski friends always said. Yep. Those three haven’t had anywhere near the investment they should have under Nutting.
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bawfuls posted:I thought it was already a shitshow thanks to the miserly ownership of Bob Nutting, at least that’s what my PA-reared ski friends always said. Post Nutting clarity
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bawfuls posted:I thought it was already a shitshow thanks to the miserly ownership of Bob Nutting, at least that’s what my PA-reared ski friends always said. I never had complaints about it and it was always my favorite PA resort, even though the local three are more my "home" mountains. Maybe it's because it's because 7S wasn't my home mountain, but the only issue I ever had there were friends getting injured.
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Dec 9, 2021 01:23
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Moot .1415926535 posted:We just picked up this lovely thing as a rental and I wanted to name it Chateau Relaxo but got outvoted. Lame. That place is pretty drat amazing. I am very impressed!
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ought ten posted:Post Nutting clarity  Yeah the resorts were ludicrously expensive for what you get, and I never even realized it until I went and skied a real mountain. Can't imagine the prices are going down anytime soon.
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I had hoped to do Japan or a vanlife trip through the big resorts in canada but both things are looking more unlikely with Omicron.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:That place is pretty drat amazing. I am very impressed! I guess I should clarify that my company acquired the rental contract, it has nothing to do with me personally other than creating job security.
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Fifty Three posted:loving No, I don’t think that’s the way these things work.
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Moot .1415926535 posted:I guess I should clarify that my company acquired the rental contract, it has nothing to do with me personally other than creating job security. Oh, I thought you had arranged a stay there. I imagine that must be in the multi-thousand dollars a night range during the season?
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Moot .1415926535 posted:https://www.tactics.com/karakoram/prime-quiver-connectors/black Ah, nice. Wish I could get something similar for my Nows.
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Laserface posted:I had hoped to do Japan or a vanlife trip through the big resorts in canada but both things are looking more unlikely with Omicron. Van trip to Canada seems a go still for the moment. Test requirement to drive over the border but not back. I am recalling you might be in AUS land though.
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Dec 9, 2021 03:10
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SeaborneClink posted:https://www.vaildaily.com/news/vail-resorts-announces-acquisition-of-seven-springs-hidden-valley-and-laurel-mountain-ski-areas/ Holy poo poo my trash local mountain from growing up is now owned by vail.
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Residency Evil posted:Holy poo poo my trash local mountain from growing up is now owned by vail. Which one? Because don't be knocking 7 springs. pinarello dogman posted:Ah, nice. Wish I could get something similar for my Nows. I don't really like riding my karakoram bindings in the resort Fwiw, great in the back country though.
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Laserface posted:I had hoped to do Japan or a vanlife trip through the big resorts in canada but both things are looking more unlikely with Omicron. Yeah it's a bummer, I had a spring ski trip with some Oz family in Sahoro planned for Feb, but it's looking highly unlikely. You could probably still come north though, assuming you're in the US, provided you know vax and all that.
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spwrozek posted:Which one? Because don't be knocking 7 springs. Have you been back at all? I went back…ten years ago or so. Hope you enjoy paying $80/day for 700 feet of vertical, dodging masses of yinzers in jeans, and waiting 20 minutes in lift lines. There’s just no point.
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spwrozek posted:Which one? Because don't be knocking 7 springs. How many people in this thread grew up skiing Seven Springs? Seems like an abnormally high concentration of W Pa natives for your average group of skiers/riders
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Dec 9, 2021 03:44
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We now have a cabin reservation for our BC trip
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spwrozek posted:Van trip to Canada seems a go still for the moment. Test requirement to drive over the border but not back. squirrelzipper posted:Yeah it's a bummer, I had a spring ski trip with some Oz family in Sahoro planned for Feb, but it's looking highly unlikely. You could probably still come north though, assuming you're in the US, provided you know vax and all that. I am in Aus so besides the exorbitant cost of flights and the potential of being stuck in Canada longer than I can afford to be, im still contemplating a feb trip for 2-3 weeks, start in vancouver and go east til i run out of body parts to injure or money.
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ought ten posted:How many people in this thread grew up skiing Seven Springs? Seems like an abnormally high concentration of W Pa natives for your average group of skiers/riders I did and still do. I’m in Ohio though. I hope they don’t raise booze prices at the foggy goggle.
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spwrozek posted:... Too harsh? I'm tempted to take my hardboot setup on a resort day to get more used to it, but not really looking forward to it.
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Residency Evil posted:Have you been back at all? I went back…ten years ago or so. Hope you enjoy paying $80/day for 700 feet of vertical, dodging masses of yinzers in jeans, and waiting 20 minutes in lift lines. I would totally go ski northern Michigan if my family wanted me to really do it. I am no ski snob! (I ski the back country to avoid crowds and find the pow...BUT BESIDES THAT!) ought ten posted:How many people in this thread grew up skiing Seven Springs? Seems like an abnormally high concentration of W Pa natives for your average group of skiers/riders We were in Toledo so we mostly went to Northern Michigan, Boyne highlands when really young then switched to Nubs Nob. I would say Nubs is my old home mountain. We would go to Seven springs or holiday valley for at least 1 trip a year though. Steve French posted:We now have a cabin reservation for our BC trip Sick, where is this at/when you going?
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spwrozek posted:Sick, where is this at/when you going? Asulkan cabin in glacier national park (Canadian one). Early March. https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/bc/glacier/activ/passez-stay/cabines-cabins#asulkan
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Keweenaw is +20 inches of blower in the last 48 hours on top of a 1" slush-ice base. Folks are getting sick coreshot laps at bohemia, but it's supposed to warm up a ton so we're probably hosed for proper good skiing for a while yet. XC is good to go, though! Hope to get out Friday.
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Steve French posted:Asulkan cabin in glacier national park (Canadian one). Early March. Sick, that looks loving awesome
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https://www.westword.com/news/bould...tgZybgAbwyY7q0I Brutal what has happened at Eldora this year- 5 deaths, 5 different runs... This was my home mountain for my first 5 years of skiing, got 40+ days there every year, super sad to see. I feel really bad for the patrol. It makes me wonder how many ski areas do not report deaths...
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Oh, I thought you had arranged a stay there. I imagine that must be in the multi-thousand dollars a night range during the season? Yeah, The Algorithm has it priced at around 6/nt and 15 during high season but that’s probably a bit loose. I trust Algorithm normally but that house is spectacular and it can’t account for that. Thing about ‘gently caress you money’ is there’s usually a lot of it. Part of my job is to put that listing in the right places. Still think Chateau Relaxo is good branding.
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Went up to Mt Seymour today to let the dog play in the snow, as I figured this weekends snowfall should be enough for them to open...except they currently only got 10cm worth of icy crud. Oh well. Physio also told me 2 weeks before I can start riding, so probably for the better.
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ought ten posted:How many people in this thread grew up skiing Seven Springs? Seems like an abnormally high concentration of W Pa natives for your average group of skiers/riders So I count 6 or 7? I guess that explains the business case for Vail, assuming I understand their model: get people to buy Epic passes for their local hill so they’ll take a vacation at another Vail resort. 7 Springs and Hidden Valley clearly serve a big market relative to their size. Has anyone skied Laurel Mtn? It was never open or rarely when I was a kid. Seems like a neat spot.
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ought ten posted:Has anyone skied Laurel Mtn? It was never open or rarely when I was a kid. Seems like a neat spot. I always wondered about this too, I used to go to a cabin up on that road a lot and even in snow I never once saw the lodge open.
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ought ten posted:So I count 6 or 7? I guess that explains the business case for Vail, assuming I understand their model: get people to buy Epic passes for their local hill so they’ll take a vacation at another Vail resort. 7 Springs and Hidden Valley clearly serve a big market relative to their size. I moved away before Laurel Mountain opened up. We were Hidden Valley/Seven springs growing up, with an occasional trip to Holiday Valley in NY. My parents couldn't afford ski trips out west, so it wasn't until later in life that I was able to start skiing in CO/UT/Tahoe. I went back to Seven Springs one time after I started skiing out west and just didn't see the point of wasting that much time and money. If anything, the crowds/experience was worse than I remember growing up. Honestly, felt the same way about skiing at Blue Mountain last year. 
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I was gifted a pair of Shift bindings (sweet!) which I was initially going to remount on one of my existing pairs of skis but now I'm wondering if it wouldn't make more sense to put them on something new. I have not been nearly as tuned in to gear stuff in recent years as I was previously, so I come to the thread looking for recommendations. What I've got now: -Moment Tahoe (96 underfoot @186) with old FKS bindings. Default "it hasn't snowed in awhile" ski, love these to death. Starting to show some age but they still have life. -Armada Norwalk (117 underfoot @189) with Tyrolia Adrenaline bindings. Soft conditions ski. I'm not a big fan of these bindings for all the usual reasons people dislike frame bindings. But the skis are great and surprisingly versatile, I like the big long rocker in the tip combined with the straight flat tail. They've been great every time I toured on them (for the downhill) but are a bit heavy for that. I was originally going to remount the Shifts here. -Armada Bubba (132 underfoot @188) ludicrously deep day skis. These will last for a long time because they only come out on the biggest bottomless days and never get any base damage. Have had some of the best ski days of my life on these skis but they are heavy and obviously never touring. So I think I want something between the Tahoe and the Norwalk which would take the plurality of days. I'd still ski the Tahoe if it's really firm or low tide. Norwalks would still be the default on pow days (and I'd be tempted to remount an alpine binding on them). But something new that's like 105-110ish underfoot for most everything else seems appropriate. Doesn't necessarily need to be a dedicated "touring" layup because tours will be maybe 15% of the ski's time and I don't do real long ones anyway. So what's good now?
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alnilam posted:I always wondered about this too, I used to go to a cabin up on that road a lot and even in snow I never once saw the lodge open. Laurel Mountain goonmeet, who’s in?
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So apparently Vail has been jerking around the Park City patroller's union for well over a year now https://www.parkrecord.com/news/summit-county/wages-a-sticking-point-in-pcmr-ski-patrol-contract-negotiations/ quote:Ski patrollers at Park City Mountain Resort are working without a contract in place for a second season as negotiations over wages between their union and PCMR owner Vail Resorts continue. Sounds to me like they need to stage a strike during the holiday peak and/or the next big storm system.
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