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Originally Posted by Squatch
Who on this board would want to willingly ski Vail anyway? (and if you do...great...just dont do any backflips :the_finge ).
But trying to say Vail, which sucks balls and always has, is somehow upsetting to anyone on this board is like bitching about the lift tix prices at .......DEER VALLEY.
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Originally Posted by Booger
I'd say I like skiing at Vail. It isn't my favorite place, but it isn't all that far down the list.
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Originally Posted by Chaka
Oh I get it. I kinda disagree, i like Heavenly OK. I have alway been entertained there but I don't go there very often.
When I was living in the midwest Fly to Reno stay @ Harveys Ski Heavenly was an easy cheap good trip.
I'm skiing Vail tomorrow. It's going to be really gay I bet.
If I see any other maggots there tomorrow, that means you're gay too.
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Originally Posted by BlurredElevens
Especially the gay part...
I think there are more Ross Perot types than you would think when you include South America and Mexico, which I understand is where a lot of the growth in skiers at Vail is coming from these days. As far as, targeting skiers who think $81/ day is exorbitant, I thought that's why Vail Resorts own Keystone and Breck. To anyone who thinks $81 to go skiing is a lot, take up golf and go play Pebble Beach.Quote:
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Originally Posted by sea2ski
compared to golf, skiing is like kicking around a ball of rags as a soccer ball in a third-world alley
I must be ghey as I was there, but Vail was officially gay today.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlurredElevens
I never got why people claim that golf is so expensive. compared to skiing. I have the same set of clubs I bought for like 400 total 6 years ago, and play cheap public courses carrying or dragging my clubs in a wheeled cart. this equipment is just fine for many years to come, and if I need a new whiz bang wood, I look for some debt laden gaper to unload one used so he can buy this years model. If you're like most people, you suck, like I do, so why even bother with expensive courses and equipment? The best people I've been grouped with look more dirtbaggy than me on the course.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squatch
Yeah, really gay. OBernard Style:Quote:
Originally Posted by Vicious
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I will never waver from believing that the Alf Engen ski school at Alta is the best ski school in North America.Quote:
Originally Posted by SheRa
so a 15foot drop makes an area rad? I've had a condo in Vail for 3 years and only gone once. I spent a week out there during the "best conditions" a couple of days with 6-9" in a row and straight up the mtn sucks. There is nothing fun or even really technical on the whole damn hill. Thank God they don't get any real powder cuz the mtn isn't steep enough to hold it.
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Originally Posted by whatcomridaz
The guys are debating RIGHT NOW how much sack they got and how big they're willling to go. Fifteen foot is just fine for me though.
Deep powder, pillow drops, cliff hucks, ice falls, old growth woods - that's the norm for us there. It is achingly beautiful and my very favorite place to ski in the deep winter months. And I still feel like I've just barely scratched the surface.
As far as technical goes, the skier's right side of every single chute I've been in has sections that are unreal technical and I have a really hard time deciding between those and the hucks. Especially since the right side is colder and the snow is always perfect even if it's been a while since a storm. It's the only place I know to ski a technical line with deep snow. Well, we did start finding some stuff up north last year, but that's so much further from home...
I've skied at Vail since my very first season and always, always, always found challenges there for me. Now I have a whole new area of Vail unfolding before my eyes and it is huge and incredible. Once again I feel like I've just gotta say thank you to Brett for showing me the goods. He's been generous and patient with such a variety of maggots.
Brett - :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock:
Summit, get those photos from King Arthur up already!!! No wait, save it for the heat of summer. We'll get plenty of new pics. I always debate in my mind about promoting these fine places on the internet, but east Vail is so big and skier traffic will help stability and I'm looking at staying out of the main routes soon anyway, so I guess it's ok by me...
One word to the lurkers out there reading this - DO NOT go to east Vail without full on avy gear and training and without the right conditions. People really die there! Those chutes run BIG. Marvin's runs BIG. Also, if you don't know where the hell you're going you can end up cliffed out and we're talking REALLY BIG. No matter what these dumbasses say, there is very dangerous territory at Vail. NOT KIDDING AND NOT EXAGGERATING!!!
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Originally Posted by mookie blaylock
ok it's only slightly gay--ultimatly we are blessed to live in a part of the world with amazing ski areas
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Originally Posted by schindlerpiste
Yep. You win.
All the gnarly ski movies are shot at Vail. :rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by Core Shot
Oh, so if it's not in a movie, it's not rad. :rolleyes:
Wonder why Seth skis there all the time....maybe he knows where to go.:fm:
Deep powder, pillow drops, cliff hucks, ice falls, old growth woods - that's the norm for us there. It is achingly beautiful and my very favorite place to ski in the deep winter months. And I still feel like I've just barely scratched the surface.
Ha Ha Ha. deep powder that is gone with the first sign of wind or sun exposed so its sun crust a day after the snow falls. You are right though 15 feet is fine, especially if there is a long landing that lets somebody hit it for 15 and somebody hit it for 50. I'll give you credt it is beautiful to see especially in the summer. But with 340 inches of snow falling, "deep" powder days are few and far between, not only that but the snow is too light to stick to any of the good lines. I think twice during my one and only stay there, I'd drop something small 15-20 and see rocks in the landing. So maybe there is great terrain in the BC but hey if I'm hiking for the goods, there are a lot better goods than Vail.
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So you've only been to Vail once, but yet you own a condo there?
Shut the fuck up CRACKHEAD.
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You've skied Vail once? You can't even ski the entire mountain if you were out for a week.
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Originally Posted by BlurredElevens
Ok. I bet you didn't have lunch at every on mountain restaurant during your vacation there. :the_fingeQuote:
Originally Posted by Crinkle
The Blue Moon at the top of the Eagle Bahn is the best restaurant in the world. The food is great, and it's not overpriced.:eek:
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Originally Posted by Core Shot
Arguing about ski resort terrain is like arguing about super model hotness. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder so it's kind of pointless.
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Originally Posted by BlurredElevens
This thread makes me laugh, people trying to convince people that Vail sucks. It has its ups and downs like everyplace. Not every mtn can be in Utah or the Sierras. But it does get the most snow for lift accessed terrain close to the Front Range, it does bring in massive tax dollars for CO, so please if you don't like it, don't ski there. Recently its been snowing there a lot, so let us be happy for what we got.
This is a really funny thread.
Consider this. I recall skiing in Vail in the mid to late sixties and early seventies on a somewhat regualr basis. Even then people bashed it because it was strip mall with chairlifts. The lift ticket price was somewhere around $15, which was higher than most other places by a buck or two, but considering how much more terrain you got, seemed like an acceptable price to pay. This was in the pre-lawsuit days too. Pretty much everything (except TVs) is 10X more expensive today than it was then. My first house in 1970 was $35,000. Today it would be at least $350,00, probably more in some markets. A BMW 2002 was about $4,000. Today a similar BMW would be around $40,000, maybe more. By this logic, a $15 lift ticket should cost you $150. Probably oversimplified but it makes the $80+ lift ticket a bit more understandable. Also, its a much better product than we had in 1970. I recall spending most of the day standing in monster lift lines at mid-vail and in the back bowls to ride on deathly slow double chairs. Also, you don't have to ski powder and bumps on 210 GS skis anymore. Upside was that the place didn't get tracked out in an hour.
I'm not a fan of high lift ticket prices, but I don't think that $80 is as out of whack as some here do. As has been noted repeatedly, there are plenty of places to ski for a whole lot less money. You can have just as much fun at a not so famous place as you can at Vail.
ABasin was $6 a day with student ID in 1979.
Act now & you can still get 2 days for $150 at Vail's Heavenly at Tahoe resort this winter break. That's just $75/day for you non-math-types. Don't know what crazy deals they're offering on Vail Co's other fine holdings.
this is a problem for the sport of skiing in general. it's expensive as shit to learn, so most people either learn as children (when their parents foot the bill) or after they have a career and can fund it themselves. right now, all these resorts can afford to charge $75+ for a single day since the baby-boomers are loaded and will pay for it.Quote:
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edit: aw crap, thread necromancy.
this thread soooo ooooo ooooo gay i cannot even believe i even read it in my drunken, doggy fart smellin self state of mind!
LOVES ALL U Freaks
go see SWOLLEN MEMBERS in Vail!!!
Hehe, I completely forgot about this thread. I was obsessed with the idea of billygoating powder lines. Then, last year, Brett went and skied that big pillow line at the rockpile. Very cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by SheRa
I still have so many places I want to ski over there.
Well, I had a great time skiing Vail back in 92. Guess I will relish those memories, as $81 would be a "big fat no way in hell am I skiing here" ticket.
That is too bad. It was good times.
I think there's still plenty of mountains with cheap prices, great snow, and good terrain that stay uncrowded because all the rich can go to places like Heavenly or Vail. Sure they might not have fancy lodges and huge condos lining the slopes, but who gives a shit about this anyway, it just attracts douchebags. As long as other places stick around and follow a different model by charging much less than big expensive resorts nearby, then places like Vail can do whatever they want and I'll ski somewhere else. Kirkwood, Alpine, Powder Mountain come to mind of places I've skied. I'm sure theres places like this in Colorado too. So screw Vail and ski somewhere better for cheaper.
this is my vail "TR" as it were from my one $80 day. I consider it a pretty epic or at least memorable day. we drove out from utah for a wedding (at the ritz, no less) with many people we hadn't seen in quite a while. friday rehearsal dinner followed by trays of tequila shots later until 2 or whenever (mistake no. 1), woke up to Ski Vail. still drunk. while waiting for the 10 wedding people we were skiing with (mistake no. 2) at the base to get their shit together, all of a sudden I notice my friend, nicest quietest girl in the world, and tiny, is involved in a shouting and nudging match with some guy on the lift line for some sort of minor bumping incident, I gather. very amusing.
after one run from the first lift, we got to the bottom of the next lift and all the lifts shut down because of an electrical outage for about 40 minutes (we were told). a first for me. they get up and running, we get up to the top and, still (increasingly? is that possible) drunk, skied in one of the "Legendary Back Bowls" twice (another first on a day of firsts). after that exhausting experience, the wedding group went in to lunch where I had to sit outside by myself because i was still drunk. after picking at my burger and downing a gatorade, I then spent 20 minutes puking in the bathroom. at first, I was trying to be really quiet, but then I realized the girl in the stall next to me was puking also. I couldn't tell if she was still drunk too, or if she was just puking up her lunchtime binge, but sadly I declined to find out. I felt marginally better after that.
the highlight of the day was the wedding-party-organized mandatory nastar racing. many six packs of beer were won when I beat my husband on the nastar course because he wiped out. five times. on the nastar course. all in all, really memorable day & I actually really felt I got my $80 worth. I think I might just have to go back some day, especially considering I remember nothing about the skiing itself.
I heart tequila.
thoroughly enjoyed my season working there. other than that, wouldn't want to spend over $80 to ride what i used to schralp for "free".
two points here.
1: I skied probably 25 days there for free by bro'in down with the lifties, and learning how to imitate the best fake 'bleep' noise ever.
2: I wanna party with Isis.