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04-04-2019, 06:42 AM #76
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04-04-2019, 06:53 AM #77
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04-04-2019, 07:34 AM #78
Just because a ski area is small and the owner has different political views doesn't mean it isn't a great place to ski
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04-04-2019, 07:53 AM #79
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04-04-2019, 08:06 AM #80Registered User
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Monarch ski area. Cool little local vibe, owned by an investor group of mostly locals. Maybe not the gnarliest ski area in CO but I've had some really fun days playing around there.
Mt Baker, don't know how the locals feel about the Howats but I feel like they were well liked when I was there a long time ago. Still one of my favorite ski areas that I've ever been to. The place is just on another level from the rest of NA resorts. Super low key(but I hear attendance has grown since I spent a few seasons there), no frills, crazy deep snow, amazing terrain. I could ski 100 days a season there for the rest of my life, rain days and all.
Grand Targhee, owned by Gillett family. Don't know how the locals feel about that, but the ski area seemed to be run pretty well, and we had a blast on our only day skiing there.
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04-04-2019, 08:27 AM #81
Organized labor stuff goes asshattery almost immediately, so we should probably try to preserve the productive nature of this thread by letting each other have our own opinions about it.
IMHO, asshattery aside, a group of patrollers unhappy enough for that scenario to arise and play itself out is a notable data point in the shithead-or-not matrix. Shitheadery isn't the only plausible explanation, but a mass exodus of patrollers is exactly the kind of thing that happens with a shithead in charge.
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04-04-2019, 08:35 AM #82Minion
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04-04-2019, 08:42 AM #83
Cannon is state owned. Live free or die
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04-04-2019, 09:02 AM #84Registered User
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I've got to say that HOODOO in Oregon is a great small area. Over the years the now, not so new, owners have proved again and again that they are into improving the public ski experience. Hell they even rolled season passes forward to the next year when the snow pack didn't show. Millions into new lifts and lodges. The good sense to listen to what is working and not, before they start reinventing the wheel. Big plans and good sense are rare qualities in any buisness.
They have many return employees, which in my book adds up to being good employers. This translates into good employees which leads directly to better public experiences at the ski area. There is good terrain and week days there are still occasional real POWDER DAYS, that last more than 3 runs.
Over the years I have watched as they continually worked to make this little gem into a regional asset. We are lucky to have such a great ski area so close by.
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04-04-2019, 10:22 AM #85Banned
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Holiday Valley.
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04-04-2019, 10:33 AM #86Registered User
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Kodiac Valley
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04-04-2019, 10:50 AM #87
Red Mountain used to be owned by three (old) local guys and the estate of a fourth. They definitely weren't shitheads.
Is the new lawyer/RE developer's crowd source actually shady, or is that an inside joke?
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04-04-2019, 11:12 AM #88
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04-04-2019, 11:22 AM #89
It's owned by a Californian property developer and cosmetics tycoon now.
His crowdfunding stakeholder deal was actually shady IMHO.
Linky to old thread https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...n-Crowdfunding
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04-04-2019, 12:03 PM #90
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04-04-2019, 12:26 PM #91Registered User
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04-04-2019, 12:38 PM #92
No frills? They knocked down the Raven Hot, and replaced it with a two story lodge! (but I miss Kelly Jo's food)
As for the Howats, I like them, but for some it's love/hate just like it's always been. Duncan is well respected. Amy and Gwyn have gotten some flak over the years for things like overly-optimistic reports, and other operational frustrations, but I think most people get that the positives outweigh the negatives.
You should move back
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04-04-2019, 12:45 PM #93
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04-04-2019, 12:50 PM #94
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04-04-2019, 12:53 PM #95Registered User
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04-04-2019, 12:56 PM #96
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04-04-2019, 12:58 PM #97
The low key ship sailed from baker right after a certain mag/photog blew the place up
There was a day in Feb that set the new record for skier/rider visits. By about 11 am they were "inventing" new parking spots.
You are not even allowed to know the names of the secret stashes, let alone the secrets themselves!
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04-04-2019, 12:59 PM #98
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04-04-2019, 01:01 PM #99
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04-04-2019, 01:08 PM #100Registered User
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Its a Coop eh, I skied Shames with Garyfromterrace, Norseman and Mike Dorse, Gary is like the Major of Shames so we had to stop and talk to some local every 5 minutes
a guy in the p-lot was giving out beers he had salvaged from a wrecked semi on the highway that was definatley day drinkingLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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