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01-05-2021, 03:04 PM #1051Like I said Bunny, I get your gripe, but until you realize no one gives a shit about the die hard skier, you are just yelling at clouds.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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01-05-2021, 03:07 PM #1052
I said "profit". That ticket requires a lot of expenditure on their part to provide that service. The bar requires four or five underpaid bartenders and cheap booze marked up to gold prices.
And my Epic northeast midweek cost me maybe 3.5 days. Why the fuck do you think I bought it? Because I adore Hunter and Mt. Snow?
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01-05-2021, 04:21 PM #1053
FWIW, KW lost my family. Yes, we were, and will be again, passholders. But we’ll before Vail bought our hill, my wife and I at on the hill quite a bit and would go out to eat at resort run businesses at night. We stayed in resort owned lodging. My wife took clinics and my son enrolled in ski school on the regular. We spent $1000s more per year over our passes. We were not the biggest spenders, but that was real money we dropped each season. Now we spend nothing but our pass. It is not just the increased cost of everything. The food sucks now. Pre Vail there were four places we liked to eat. Not any more. Ski school felt better. We used to get great instructors who gave a shit about our kid. Now it is a complete crap shoot. Some instructors act inappropriately around kids even. Fuck paying for that. Vail now has a valley security team. For a few years they would go through your pack if you wore one on the lift. Cause, ya know, there might be something illegal in there.
There are so many easy ways to make the experience positive and worth spending money on. Vail fails miserably at any hill that is not a mirror image of Vail.
I know my $2k/year is not a big lose for a big company, but they claim they are losing money on operating KW.
There used to be a wait for a table at to on hill eateries in the ore Vail days. Sometimes and hour long wait. Now you can walk right in during a snow storm at 12:30 and sit in an empty restaurant. So it is not like they replaced us with newer, richer customers.
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01-06-2021, 09:06 AM #1054
You drove 2+ hours to go skiing and when you got there, booted up and then found out via murmers from the crowd that the place was closed? That fucking sucks.
I live in a terrible wasteland of flat landscape, and the shit skiing that we DO have has all been shut down by the government. Entire fucking province. Until Jan 28 or whatever, when they think opening back up on a Saturday will be a good move. Fucking morans I tell ya.
Been joking with the wife I want to head to the parking lot, put my gear on and just walk around for a bit so it "feels" like I'm about to go skiing. Then head back to the car and have a tailgate beer and some soup. This sucks serious shit.
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01-06-2021, 09:23 AM #1055
Yes it does.
But, little things in life. The high Catskills were still white and snowy from the snow a few days ago, so, the scenery was nice, Better than TV.
And, Windham, of all places, actually looks like a nice place to go up to and skin for an exercise day. They have a Mac and cheese and taco truck in the plaza at the bottom.
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01-08-2021, 10:39 AM #1056
Wow, the fuck ups continue.
As mentioned, Hunter Mountain has been closed for three days do to the patrol being understaffed because they were infected with Covid or pulled a work action or both with other factors worked in, time will tell.
They opened today, and this guy drives two hours to get there with no reservation, because the reservation system was basically still down, and he figured that he could do it in the parking lot. He sees that they are selling day passes. This text exchange ensues. I got this off of Facebook, the only real source for real time info.
God, I hate this company.
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01-08-2021, 10:44 AM #1057
Dude. I told you about how shorty Vail was this summer. I told you last winter. And the winter before that. But you refused to listen and kowtowed to your Vail overlords and gave them your money. Again. This shit is on you.
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01-08-2021, 10:54 AM #1058
Oh, that's cute. You are so fucking smug. Like, in October, when most of us thought that maybe there won't be any skiing at all, and pondered what pass to buy, if any, instead of subjecting ourselves to walk up pricing if there was skiing, and I saw the pricing on a midweek Vail northeast pass, and thought, what the fuck, that ain't much of a loss if things go to shit, and, it gets me Hunter, a respectable day trip, for sure, especially if it snows, like that pre Xmas storm, which was quite fun, I'll say. It's hardly what I wanted, but, fuck, better than nothing, right? And, I'm trying to only do day trips, not actually jump in a plane and travel a few thousand miles IN THE MIDDLE OF A WORLWIDE PANDEMIC! You know, just to ski, of all things. Which a lot of people are doing. Like some people here.
You don't think I know Vail sucks? You don't think I've owned an Epic pass for maybe ten seasons and skied their properties all over in that time? But, this is beyond the pale. This company is in serious trouble. They are in the resort business, which means, more than anything, customer service, and they suck at it right now. I have to go to Facebook for critical info? What the fuck?
This shit is on everybody, genius.
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01-08-2021, 01:00 PM #1059
Huh. That's balls. Maybe it's a good thing I bought a pass only to have all my local hills shut down by the government. At least I'm not getting all the way there with the wife and kids for a giant hassle. 2021 is the year of silver linings!
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01-08-2021, 01:13 PM #1060
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01-08-2021, 01:24 PM #1061
I wish some media outlet would run with that story like they did with Sturges in the summer, but, rich liberal journalists ski.
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01-09-2021, 11:15 PM #1062
Looking for advice from the collective.....Does anyone know the procedure for using Epic Buddy/SWAF passes this year?...
I know that as the Epic Pass holder....make my reservation at the resort of my choice.....but how does “my buddy/SWAF” go about doing theirs?.....considering I have to “get their ticket” for them? Do they have to make a reservation too?
Anybody do this yet?
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01-09-2021, 11:25 PM #1063
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01-10-2021, 04:34 AM #1064
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01-10-2021, 05:57 AM #1065
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01-10-2021, 12:37 PM #1066registered abuser
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Word I heard was hunter trollers were striking........rumors been flying here in Tahoe about walkoffs as well..... bunch’s squaw lifties didn’t show the other day and some other stuff was sposed to happen at various resorts here
Soooooo...... not to defend hunter or Vail but.....How the fuck are they supposed to foresee a walkoff? The whole point of walkoffs are to piss off customers just like Benny who will in turn chastise the resort for their ineptitude. It sounds to me like it worked...... good for them and sorry you got fucked as a result
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01-10-2021, 04:02 PM #1067
Poor conservative journalists don't?
No one is going to stop traveling to ski because some liberal douchebag, fake news journalist writes a story about rich, privileged
white folks flying all over the place to ski.
Shitty situation to be sure about the garbage heap called Hunter, but it is what it is."We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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01-10-2021, 04:03 PM #1068
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01-10-2021, 05:56 PM #1069
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01-10-2021, 06:10 PM #1070Registered User
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01-10-2021, 06:15 PM #1071
You're not getting it. I'm all for worker's rights. Good for them. I just want real time transparency from the company, direct to phone, before and after stop events. I hate driving for nothing. I'm not THAT bored.
Another week begins. I was thinking of Tuesday. But the fuck I'm driving all the way up again, WITH a reservation, and get shut out.
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01-10-2021, 06:21 PM #1072
The story so far with Hunter, an ancient ski culture in the northeast (there's pictures of Bobby Kennedy skiing there), is that Vail bought in and eliminated family passes for volunteers. Duh. Poof, a ton of patrol gone (they're old, anyway) and the remaining in a Covid year thinking, eh, maybe not me. Smart.
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01-10-2021, 06:41 PM #1073
Why did they take the job if they were afraid of covid? Seriously weird to be angry that your resort job is writing you a pay check and not shut down. I guess I must be missing something here?
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01-10-2021, 08:16 PM #1074registered abuser
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^^^^ yeah you are missing something
No j1s this year........local employees have some leverage for once
Shitty pay for front line jobs....... especially during a fucking pandemic. My 17 yr old is a ticket checker at Sierra and is just fine making shit pay....... but the 30+ yr old troller making a similar wage with much more responsibility should be making a living wage
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01-10-2021, 09:37 PM #1075
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