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01-04-2021, 05:35 AM #1726
Fuck, if this actually ever happens I am buying at the first stop.
Perfer et obdura, hic dolor olim utior tibi. -Ovid
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01-04-2021, 06:51 AM #1727
Next year I would definitely be down for a pub xc ski crawl
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01-04-2021, 06:56 AM #1728Registered User
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First day of dry January and I'm already thinking about Foam. Gonna be a long month
2-3' of new snow last night. Starting to slowly pile up.
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01-04-2021, 06:58 AM #1729
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01-04-2021, 07:31 AM #1730
Risking your skis is right! ha, I hit bottom a few times when they dropped the rope on Kitz, a few knicks on the bases, but overall the snow coverage was pretty dang good all things considered. We also saw those dudes throwing backies on Liftline, pretty awesome to see them gettin after it and I think I recognized a few of them as kids from the Jay Freeski team.
I definitely agree with your last thought about us actually getting off easy on a Saturday morning pow day with the situation as it is; I never thought the wait times were really too bad and everyone seemed to be smart about masks etc. - What made me happy is that on two separate occasions within the last week, Steve Wright has been out helping man the lift lines on the Bonnie. He was out there Saturday in the snowstorm too, and was just as stoked as most of the skiers. Always great to see the GM of a resort actually out in the field involved with the operations.my head is perpetually in the clouds
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01-04-2021, 07:33 AM #1731
27º bob with 2" of new snow overnight, total of 8" this weekend. Dead calm right now with the fluff sitting on the branches. Patrol is setting boo on Twist, so more natch opening this am. Get some.
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01-04-2021, 08:04 AM #1732
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01-04-2021, 08:05 AM #1733
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01-04-2021, 10:49 AM #1734
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01-04-2021, 01:32 PM #1735
Skied Jay Peak again today. Parked on Tram side, to pick up my new "uphill pass". Rode Metro chair at 8;30 over to Bonnie. Second chair on the Bonnie, with perfect corduroy for laps on Northway/Wiggle back to Bonnie. Very few skiers today, though I never made it to the Jet. Snow making above on the Northway, to JFK so no access to skin higher than Bonnie offload. Unless you want to lose your season pass !
Enjoyed the corduroy with my new Orb Freerides and F-1s..
gerritkwood,
glad you got in some good turns on Saturday; I just had to leave earlier.. I should have passed on Saturday/Holiday weekend skiing, but the fresh snow was too tempting. Nice picture of the Poma, looking into the Black Falls drainage. I've been over there.. .
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01-05-2021, 07:08 AM #1736
9/16" of fresh overnight w/some snow mist falling not, foggy as fuck.
Some skiing yesterday for a couple of hours
Rope drops garnered some untracked lanes for while, good to get some in looking at the 10 day forecast
Something happened and we lost any sun, flat light murk sucks, off to work for the afternoon.
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01-05-2021, 09:10 AM #1737
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01-05-2021, 09:19 AM #1738Registered User
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01-05-2021, 09:34 AM #1739
Not even a Bolton pass? I thought you had one.
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01-05-2021, 09:54 AM #1740Registered User
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01-05-2021, 10:14 AM #1741
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01-05-2021, 10:19 AM #1742
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01-05-2021, 10:39 AM #1743
New Years Eve super spreader Patrol Party??
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01-05-2021, 10:42 AM #1744
Interwebs saying that patrol is on strike
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01-05-2021, 11:03 AM #1745
Yes, the "excluded out of work related to Covid-19" statement above seemed odd phrasing to me. I do know that Patrollers don't get paid enough to deal with the type of exposure they could be subjected to daily. They are essentially front line workers at this point. Should they strike? I don't presume to know... More to this than meets the eye. Could be a sign of things to come across the industry however.
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01-05-2021, 12:34 PM #1746Registered User
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Anyone who works outside all winter ends up working through sniffles and coughs. Depending on the wording of the Covid self-assessment they presumably use, answering accurately about such things could easily mean being required to stay home for 10 days. Now if 2/3 of the available patrol staff happened to answer in such a manner on the same day, that doesn't seem to exactly be a strike (legally, at least), but it's definitely going to have an impact on business operations.
Edited to add: ...and if that happens to push the business to better take care of employee health to allow operation during a pandemic, so much the better.
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01-05-2021, 01:08 PM #1747
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01-05-2021, 01:37 PM #1748
^^ Rad photos T!
Are there any lift ticket deals going this season? I noticed Cannon cancelled the NH res. Tuesdays and the two-for-one Wednesdays.
Thinking maybe Saddleback on Friday as the day ticket is pretty reasonably priced. Stoked to see all the work they did this past Summer.
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01-05-2021, 01:51 PM #1749
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01-05-2021, 02:25 PM #1750
Ya think? "Excluded out of work." The fuck. First I want to meet the cube shit who wrote that and slap them up the side of the head, and, if it was written in a Colorado cube, I also want to kick him in the knee.
Forty years of skiing, and that never happened to me, and never heard of it. I hope they were on strike. I'd commend them for doing it if it was a work action. Because that fucking company sucks. I drive 2.3 hours to stand around and hear that second hand after I just went back to my car. Not one fucking notification from the mountain through email. There were still people rolling into the parking lot, and one guy said, yeah, no notification. Fuck, they have our emails. It's basically our IDs. It would have been easy to robo email us if anybody knew what the fuck they're doing, but we have seen the pathetic level of customer service that company delivers all summer, so, no surprise. Tell us what the fuck is going on. No, I have to skulk around the internet to find the real story.
I hate this company. I wish that Covid spreads through the board room. The best thing that could happen to skiing is for them to fall into financial ruin and divest anything good, before it's to late. Fuck them.
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