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04-07-2022, 08:16 AM #76
Could never sleep there. Guaranteed haunted.
Hey I'm just a stupid idiot on the internet, but I don't think a lot of people download at Jay. I do, however, know that Jay was designed to look very european, 1960's-ish?
Here's the bottom terminal. In fact, lets see some more Tram pics!
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04-07-2022, 08:20 AM #77ski paintingshttp://michael-cuozzo.fineartamerica.com" horror has a face; you must make a friend of horror...horror and moral terror.. are your friends...if not, they are enemies to be feared...the horror"....col Kurtz
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04-07-2022, 08:24 AM #78
My top 3 coldest chairlift experiences in my life are:
1) Flyer
2) Flyer
3) Flyer
Just brutal sometimes. You get over that crest and see the chairs ahead swinging around, and everyone just stops talking and hunkers down for the last 5 minutes of the lift ride. That wind will penetrate any chink in your armour that exists. I'm cold just thinking about it.
I remember when everything was on wind-hold during a storm there, except the Bonnie. Someone from here PM'd me with some "hike up here when this is happening" beta, and oh boy was that a good afternoon.
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04-07-2022, 08:43 AM #79
^^^
For me it was the Mt. Mansfield lift at Stowe. Even when given the wool poncho for the ride, it was COLLLD!Last edited by schindlerpiste; 04-07-2022 at 09:29 AM.
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04-07-2022, 08:55 AM #80
It’s known as the green mountain freezer
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04-07-2022, 09:07 AM #81
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04-07-2022, 09:11 AM #82
I’ve only skied Jay around 5-6 times and I agree this was the coldest lift ride of my life. Didn’t help the windchill was negative 20. I had never had to pull my entire upper body into my ski coat like a turtle before.
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04-07-2022, 09:35 AM #83
Lift should be called, American Freezer. So cold
crab in my shoe mouth
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04-07-2022, 11:05 AM #84Registered User
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04-10-2022, 11:53 AM #85
We lodged at the bottom of Chair 8 when we visited. Our mornings were Chair 8 to Chair 9 and lap 9 for a bit before hitting those trees off the back. Very fond of that chair. It was pretty bumped up when we visited and did not mind the slow fixed grip allowing us to rest.
As for trams, I too am not a lover of trams. Waiting for a box and standing in a box. Much rather be on a chair. I visited Jackson when there as no tram, and while I missed top to bottom laps, the reality of it was the mountain skied great. Talking with locals that year, despite the lack of snow, Corbets was skiing great due to lack of traffic. The fixed grip two seater of the bowl did fine at limiting traffic, and the upper reaches were less skied than usual. I can not think of a single tam in the US that access terrain that chairs can not. So fuck that argument. Tho, I scratched a Snowbird trip last week due mostly to the tram not running (and the price of gas).
I used not even like gondolas, but that same trip to Jackson made me fond, as I lapped the gondola in the mornings for a few runs as I waited for the snow to loosen a bit, and the bitter cold to warm into the 20s.
I never saw the use of the tram at Olympic Valley, but can see how it would be great is Silverado opened early on a powder day. And then I'd ride that chairlift. Certainly would not consider lapping that tram.
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04-10-2022, 12:37 PM #86ski paintingshttp://michael-cuozzo.fineartamerica.com" horror has a face; you must make a friend of horror...horror and moral terror.. are your friends...if not, they are enemies to be feared...the horror"....col Kurtz
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04-10-2022, 02:24 PM #87
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04-10-2022, 02:26 PM #88
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04-10-2022, 03:13 PM #89
As a Swede I’m offended that Swiss weed becomes sweed.
But I do have change for a nickel. So I got that going for me.. . .
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04-10-2022, 03:54 PM #90indentured servant
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what's orange and looks good on hippies?
fire
rails are for trains
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04-10-2022, 05:12 PM #91
The point of the Olympic valley team really wasn’t for the skiing. It was to get people to visit Alex Cushings self proclaimed 8th wonder of the world, the high camp lodge. That team purposefully takes the hardest route to get there just because. It can be fun lapping towers 16, or even broken arrow, especially in the spring when things are a little slow.
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04-10-2022, 11:28 PM #92
The original plan was apparently to have a golf course at High Camp. That fell through for obvious reasons, although it might be a good fall back as things continue to warm up. And there is a disc golf course up there.
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04-11-2022, 06:10 AM #93
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04-11-2022, 06:16 AM #94"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
"I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing" - Buzz Holmstrom
"THIS IS WHAT WE DO"-AML -ski on in eternal peace
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04-11-2022, 06:24 AM #95
Been there many times. Tremblant can be COLD - single large mountain that sticks up above everything else for miles. Once it was so cold the mountain was empty, my dad and I just kept skiing. My face hurt. They've at least got the gondola so you can take a warm ride up once in a while. Also Mt. Snow one week when I was a kid, and I remember when the thermometer said 0F one morning and we were all celebrating because it had "finally warmed up." "That's only like -20 back home!"
None of those compare to the Flyer at Jay. That lift is designed to make you cold! There's an initial 8 min of just below normal coldness, a steady breeze enough to just make you a little bit chilly. Then you get to the top of the mountain and there's still 5 minutes of almost-no-vert lift ride left, and the wind is just HONKING. Always, every time. I also never remember it being sunny on that lift.
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04-11-2022, 07:03 AM #96
There will not be any water left by then to irrigate the rocks to grow grass on. Best stick with disc golf, and maybe their summer e-bike tours.
I didn't know Cushing considered High Camp the 8th Wonder of the World. I'm sure it was awesome in its heyday, but now it is just a big building near awesome terrain.
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04-11-2022, 09:10 AM #97
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05-29-2022, 03:38 PM #98
https://liftblog.com/
Aaand they dropped the red one. "Damaged beyond repair". What a colossal fuckup.
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05-29-2022, 04:53 PM #99
Fkn whoops
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05-29-2022, 05:03 PM #100"boobs just make the world better really" - Woodsy
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