ski destinations I never thought I would consider (Yellowstone Club, Vail)

**Dexter Rutecki** · 09-21-2018, 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by adrenalated

There is fun terrain in the area where the cat operates, but the cat op doesn't ski it. The cat runs laps on low angle terrain, with no avy gear on any of the guests, and party skis it. Meanwhile there will be tons of people on sleds spinning 2X the number of laps on the fun stuff while you're gaper party skiing the low angle wind hammered bullshit.

Man, are you ever selling me on the experience. Vail Cat Skiing should hire you as a hype man.

Originally Posted by garyfromterrace

Mind = blown. Whoa...

Glad someone appreciated my discovery. In retrospect I might have been able to guess you'd be one of the people enjoying that.

**muted** · 09-21-2018, 12:47 PM

YC is for rich people who can actually want to ski, and a good amount ski well there. So don't discount the YC, the people and it's terrain, it's pretty fun. Having BS next door means you won't get bored, so much terrain to have.

I was bored to shit skiing Vail, but I didn't go out of bounds where it's supposedly a lot more fun. Lotta people like Vail in-bounds though. Nice truck stop as truck stops go....

**Benny Profane** · 09-21-2018, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by muted

YC is for rich people who can actually want to ski, and a good amount ski well there. So don't discount the YC, the people and it's terrain, it's pretty fun. Having BS next door means you won't get bored, so much terrain to have.

You know, if I had a billion dollars, I'd live there, because its like a private ski in and out place to live on Big Sky, because, after all, they can buy a pass and ski BS, but us plebes can't do the opposite.

If Lemond got kicked out, the new owner of his place got a gem. I saw it once on one of those lifestyles of the rich and famous shows. Sweet.

**2FUNKY** · 09-21-2018, 01:22 PM

Plus when done cruising YC. You can go to BS and get some of this.
Omg the photo manager here SUUUCKS! Not sure why it keeps posting it sideways.

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**muted** · 09-21-2018, 01:27 PM

Pretty damn sure he won't be getting any of that 2funky.

**yeahman** · 09-21-2018, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by 2FUNKY

Not sure why it keeps posting it sideways.

Resave the image with a different name, then repost. Usually fixes that problem. Sometimes you need to do it in a new post and delete the old one though.

**2FUNKY** · 09-21-2018, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by yeahman

Resave the image with a different name, then repost. Usually fixes that problem. Sometimes you need to do it in a new post and delete the old one though.

Plus it’s not the picture I selected. Similar but the other one shows all the headwaters. It’s really dumb we should have to do all that shit just to post a damn picture.

**SkiBall** · 09-21-2018, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by The AD

Vail is a fun place to ski. Ridiculously overpriced and probably overrated, but I have a feeling you'd have fun there if there's good snow.

Yes, depending on decision making time, look for good snow, then decide if possible.

**GPP33** · 09-21-2018, 06:26 PM

You never mentioned how you plan on getting into YC. It’s not like you can just walk up to the ticket counter. If there is a way please tell me, it looks like a cool area from top of Big.

So with that out Vail has some fun terrain and a lot of it. They don’t have gnar or high alpine but if you’re not having fun there then you probably don’t actually enjoy skiing.

**rod9301** · 09-21-2018, 07:17 PM

The best place I've ever skied at is bareges in the French Pyrenees

If you like to hike or skin a bit (10-60 minutes) there are 80 plus couloirs in the resort, 600-2,000 ft, 40-50 degrees steep. And nobody skis them. In February and March, fat coverage and you can ski untracked for a week after a storm.

Maritime climate, so it snows a lot and it's stable

Cheap.

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**Hacksaw** · 09-22-2018, 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by flowing alpy

i’d poach that fancy place by The Big with bunion

Yeah, Bunion knows the back bowls of the YC.....

**Bunion 2020** · 09-22-2018, 02:40 PM

Ain't no "Back Bowls" at the Y/C.

There are some extremely posh Restrooms however. Although not nearly as nice as the RRs at the Lodge at Snowbasin when it 1st opened.

**yeahman** · 09-23-2018, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by GPP33

You never mentioned how you plan on getting into YC. It’s not like you can just walk up to the ticket counter. If there is a way please tell me, it looks like a cool area from top of Big.

That's what I was wondering about too. No mention of a friend who owns a place there or anything. Hey, I'd like to ski the YC too! Actually I did ski it once. Down a cat track to the base of a lift to take us back to Big Sky because Shedhorn had shut down and left us stranded. I f'ing shredded that cat track, that mountain won't soon forget me. Actually I found the vibe at the base to be empty, closed in, and weird, during my extremely brief time observing it. I guess if it were on a day with more people it might be cool.

**Hacksaw** · 09-23-2018, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by Not bunion

Ain't no "Back Bowls" at the Y/C.

You have to know the secret handshake to get into the back bowls..... ;-p

**Benny Profane** · 09-23-2018, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by yeahman

That's what I was wondering about too. No mention of a friend who owns a place there or anything. Hey, I'd like to ski the YC too! Actually I did ski it once. Down a cat track to the base of a lift to take us back to Big Sky because Shedhorn had shut down and left us stranded. I f'ing shredded that cat track, that mountain won't soon forget me. Actually I found the vibe at the base to be empty, closed in, and weird, during my extremely brief time observing it. I guess if it were on a day with more people it might be cool.

I'm guessing that the only time you find a lot of people are the Xmas holidays. And, compared to BS and other places, that probably ain't much.

**Talisman** · 09-23-2018, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by yeahman

That's what I was wondering about too. No mention of a friend who owns a place there or anything. Hey, I'd like to ski the YC too! Actually I did ski it once. Down a cat track to the base of a lift to take us back to Big Sky because Shedhorn had shut down and left us stranded. I f'ing shredded that cat track, that mountain won't soon forget me. Actually I found the vibe at the base to be empty, closed in, and weird, during my extremely brief time observing it. I guess if it were on a day with more people it might be cool.

My ski time at YC was also when Sheddy closed and had a BS ski patrol escort through YC (perhaps preventing a Yeahman event?). From chair to chair with lots of fresh powder every where. A lifty rode up on the quad with me and said he had gone 50 days between loading "guests". He liked working at YC because of the benefits and had an interesting side gig.

**yeahman** · 09-23-2018, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

I'm guessing that the only time you find a lot of people are the Xmas holidays. And, compared to BS and other places, that probably ain't much.

Yeah. I have heard it is increasing though. They've been building the shit out of that place the past few years, from what I've been told by people working construction up there. Not sure what that translates to in actual skier days.

**Benny Profane** · 09-23-2018, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by yeahman

Yeah. I have heard it is increasing though. They've been building the shit out of that place the past few years, from what I've been told by people working construction up there. Not sure what that translates to in actual skier days.

I'll bet a six pack that those people barely ski.

**yeahman** · 09-23-2018, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by Talisman

A lifty rode up on the quad with me and said he had gone 50 days between loading "guests".

Wait, what does that mean? He sat there 50 days and didn't load a single f'ing person on the chair?!

P.S. We had a ski patrol escort too on our cat track run. Big Sky has an agreement with the YC that when Sheddy shuts down they can evacuate people through the YC.

**Benny Profane** · 09-23-2018, 06:50 PM

Did they spray you down first and then blindfold you?

**Dexter Rutecki** · 09-23-2018, 07:14 PM

Skiing YC will not be an issue, for those of you who wondered how I am planning on doing this (some former fund buddy of one of my friends will let us use his place, I guess). I don't know how it works or what the rules are, but if it's possible I'll see about getting lift tix for some of you weirdos (again, I have no idea if that's even possible, or if guests of guests (like I would be) can bring guests, but I imagine there might be some way to do it--at the least I can meet you guys wherever this place intersects with BS and share my pocket full of breakfast meats with you).

**yeahman** · 09-23-2018, 07:23 PM

Sure, friends of friends, a note from your mom, just about anything will get you in at the YC. The more the merrier, that's their motto.

**Benny Profane** · 09-23-2018, 07:48 PM

Do they have lift tickets there? Or does everyone just get a golden orb to flash?

**Buster Highmen** · 09-23-2018, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by Dexter Rutecki

...share my pocket full of breakfast meats with you).

Isn't that a Carly Simon song?

**SumJongGuy** · 09-23-2018, 07:53 PM

I'll ski just about anything outdoors and preferably on frozen or mostly frozen water. No artificial surfaces. Don't feel any urge to try indoor skiing or turf/plastic. I've tried grass skiing and done the water ramping. As for indoors, I do enjoy going skating or stick and puck at the local ice plex on a hot summer day or in the fall to get my ski legs back. But for "skiing", it's gotta be outdoors and on snow or water.