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09-16-2020, 11:17 AM #11751Registered User
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09-16-2020, 11:20 AM #11752Registered User
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09-16-2020, 11:22 AM #11753Registered User
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Doesn't make me want to ski there though
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09-16-2020, 11:29 AM #11754
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09-16-2020, 12:25 PM #11755
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09-16-2020, 02:06 PM #11756
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09-16-2020, 02:18 PM #11757
It must be financially better for BS to shut down completely than operate at reduced capacity. Vaccine could save the day, otherwise, seems like lack of plan will end up with what happen end of last season and hose the bzn area...not that I want to turn this into another covid thread. :-)
I like the boot pack idea, but it would be nice if you could summit and ski other than just off traverse. I don't recall a good transition spot along the traverse, but never really thought to look. My vote would be to make everyone hike for turns off the top, although those days with no/little tram line are rad.
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09-16-2020, 02:35 PM #11758Registered User
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I doubt we'll see any ski area shut down unless so many staff are sick that the place can't operate.
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09-16-2020, 02:39 PM #11759
I don't really see it as "lack of a plan." If you've read all their updates, they seem to have as much of a plan as any other ski area, aside from not requiring passholders to make a daily reservation. Face masks required inside and in lift lines, no bars open on the mountain, not requiring strangers to ride the lifts together (except maybe on the 8, which if you get on opposite sides of the chair is not really risky). And the plan says if capacity gets too high they will throw the Ikon and MC passholders under the bus and deny them access, and/or suspend day ticket sales. Reservations in and of themselves aren't going to stop the spread of the virus. The only way to do that is masks and distancing, which they are requiring as part of their plan. And yeah, if you aren't able to do that simple stuff then you might catch it from somebody. But that could just as easily happen at any of the resorts where reservations are required.
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09-16-2020, 03:05 PM #11760
I must say here and now that the Big Sky online system for buying a pass FUCKING SUCKS. Every fucking year when I go online I am not in their system even though they send me e-mails urging me to buy a pass.
I enter my e-mail so that I can locate my account and guess what? No record of that e-mail. I enter my name, phone number and that impossibly long pass number.... no record.
How is that so fucking difficult?I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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09-16-2020, 03:09 PM #11761
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09-16-2020, 03:12 PM #11762
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09-16-2020, 04:05 PM #11763
Managed to get a real live person, about 4 minutes before the pass office closed for the day. Very helpful and fixed the glitches.
Big props to Chelsea.I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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09-16-2020, 04:48 PM #11764Registered User
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09-16-2020, 05:18 PM #11765I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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09-16-2020, 05:30 PM #11766
That's true. It looked to me like they were doing a good job at the bike park and in the base buildings this summer, etc., with lots of signage and free masks and employees being serious about it all. But obviously that was a very small crowd compared to what they will face this winter. You can only hope most people will be cooperative and not be dicks about it, just happy to be able to ski at all. It will be a challenge for sure.
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09-16-2020, 06:35 PM #11767Registered User
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09-16-2020, 06:48 PM #11768
Hope you are right Y, probably depends on the numbers that show up on the "weekend memorable conditions" kind of a day.
I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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09-17-2020, 07:39 AM #11769Registered User
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Days like that are a total cluster even without COVID. Hell, I've stopped going on the huge pow days because the chaos smothers the fun.
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09-17-2020, 09:42 AM #11770
RE: Boot pack from top of Dakota.
I predict a skin track to the Summit in the future.I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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09-17-2020, 09:52 AM #11771Registered User
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I had a similar experience, albeit at one of the East Coast former-ASC properties...I was shocked they still had the photo on file. I was more shocked it wasn't until late March that I got yanked out of line and questioned as to whether or not it was really my pass.
Re: actual response, a lot comes down to getting your minimum-wage employees to give a damn (both while at work and while off work—traditional employee social activities could easily become a serious operational problem with Covid floating around). If 3/4 of a department's line-level staff gets together for beverages and then it turns out that one of them was positive, isolating the remainder leaves you without a whole lot of available staff.
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09-17-2020, 11:06 AM #11772
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09-17-2020, 02:50 PM #11773
^^^ Same/same.
I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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09-17-2020, 06:48 PM #11774Registered User
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Bozeman took three years to completely turn me off from in-bounds skiing. Touring set-up will be popping with all of this extra $$$ that ain't going to big sky or bridger
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09-17-2020, 07:56 PM #11775Registered User
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