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Thread: WOOT WOOT! Nukin' in Missoula
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07-25-2019, 01:52 PM #2926
My daughter is a pretty good skier, she's not quite at double black level but she can handle most blacks and all blues, I think she'll do fine if we take the plunge.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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07-25-2019, 05:43 PM #2927
100% true and yet my kid, who turned 5 last December and rode the lifts at Snowbowl for the first time immediately before his birthday, absolutely refused to go anywhere else by the end of the season. He claims correctly that the drive to Disco "sucks" and even if the snow sucks at the Bowl, he is always down for hot chocolate and pizza at the Last Run Inn.
Apparently I now have to get him one of the Snowbowl Low Life stickers.
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07-25-2019, 05:48 PM #2928Registered User
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There you have the range of opinions on Snowbowl in a nutshell ; "the most underrated ski area in the country", or "it sucks"!
I am a fan of the place myself, but I agree that it is not kind to beginners and lower intermediates.
I have limited knowledge of the Missoula school system, but I have volunteered in the high schools and from what I can see the quality of the teaching is good, although the physical facilities are not uniformly top notch.
All in all, this is a great place to live, though. I moved here four years ago from suburban Philadelphia and have not regretted it a bit.
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07-25-2019, 06:26 PM #2929
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07-25-2019, 07:08 PM #2930
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07-25-2019, 08:00 PM #2931
Now it is on fire! It sucks here, real bad.
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07-25-2019, 08:26 PM #2932
Year round air quality - Particulate 11th worse,in the U.S, above Detroit. Short term particulate 5th,above 11th, L.A.
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07-25-2019, 08:42 PM #2933
7th.
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07-26-2019, 08:22 AM #2934
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07-26-2019, 09:31 AM #2935
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07-26-2019, 09:32 AM #2936
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07-26-2019, 01:36 PM #2937Registered User
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As a business, SB has been somewhat screwed by either or all of USFS, Missoula County or MTDOT... They are entirely responsible for building and maintaining their 12 mile access road, something no other ski area that I know of has to do. While I have no inside scoop on their actual finances, that has to be a huge money drain on the owners.
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07-27-2019, 10:32 PM #2938
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07-28-2019, 03:57 AM #2939
Snowbowl Road is, in fact, six miles from Grant Creek to The Bowl. They do not maintain the County portion of the road (Grant Creek Road to the horseshoe turn). They do pay to maintain the USFS portion of the road (about five and a half miles). Maintaining the road is the largest portion of their operating overhead. In order to gain USFS approval for the chairlifts in their development plan, they widened and straightened the road (which used to look like a glorified goat path) to a minimum of twenty two feet wide ( I can't recall how many million that cost), and put in 3 million dollars worth of guard railing.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. -אלוהים אדירים
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07-28-2019, 04:04 AM #2940
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07-28-2019, 10:00 AM #2941
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07-28-2019, 09:35 PM #2942
Danno: I lived in Missoula for 25 years. Great town. There is lots about it that I miss. For a reference point, my next door neighbor there grew up in Boulder, his dad was a professor there. When I moved in his kids were in grade school there. Now his grandkids are in the same school, with many of the same teachers. I don't have kids, but in my years there I do not recall hearing people bitch about the education their kids were getting.
Missoula is not the best place place for anything, but it is a great place for almost everything.
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07-29-2019, 04:34 PM #2943
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07-29-2019, 10:44 PM #2944
Hey well if you put the guardrails on the outside of corners people would be running into them all the time.
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07-30-2019, 09:01 AM #2945
Exactly. If someone is gonna be a shitty driver, better that they simply go off the road so as not to block the orderly flow of traffic.
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07-30-2019, 09:38 AM #2946
Most of the 'accidents' I've seen post road-widening were cars that got 1-2 tires sucked into the snowbank. Most of them were at the U-bend heading on the way down.
In other news, the bowl changed the trail map on their website to include the new 'snow park' chair. Uh huh, I'll believe it when I'm actually riding the chair.
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07-30-2019, 09:40 AM #2947
Those new run names, jesus.
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07-30-2019, 09:50 AM #2948
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07-30-2019, 11:27 AM #2949
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07-30-2019, 11:55 AM #2950
So that lift and terrain doesn't actually exist?
Funny how trail maps don't tell the story of a place, nothing about that trail map gives off the impression that y'all have given me about the place."fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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