Same, I was sent a short of the digging out of the top terminal via IG.
I will post it if it goes public, don't want to get the OP in trouble with his overlords.
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Same, I was sent a short of the digging out of the top terminal via IG.
I will post it if it goes public, don't want to get the OP in trouble with his overlords.
Bunion just do a screen record on your phone and crop out the IG account name.
Too bad Swimmy and I didn't do our usual 10 laps in there to get better compaction.
crazy footage, and pretty alarming. Good learning for the power of "small" slides and how getting rammed into a tree will kill you quick.
Challenger and Headwaters skiing really well. Great windbuff and dumping!!
I would rather wait and let the dust settle. According to BS employees over on Reddit, the Boyne management is well aware of the fact that this has gotten out of their control and they are not happy about it one little bit.
They really should just take the mea culpa and use it as a learning experience. They operate a huge mountain that can be difficult to manage and sometimes shit happens so cut the patrol a little slack if everything isn't open wall to wall at 9:15.
@YM, puking in town, I would be down there but headed to Showdown for 30 dollar Thursday and 68 dollar Friday, snow up there as well.
Giddyup.
Oh just saw this. Much better image!Quote:
Originally Posted by swimmy
Talk about an odyssey.Quote:
Due to extreme high winds, upper mountain terrain openings will be delayed. Swift Current 6 will also be on hold for cleanup after avalanche mitigation work. Thank you for your patience. To access Moonlight Lodge and the Madison Base from Mountain Village, ride the Explorer lift and follow signs to Challenger/Bozeman Trail. From the bottom of Challenger, continue along Bozeman Trail to the Pony Express lift. To access Madison Base, ride Pony Express and take the Cinnabar trail.
5' crown depth? Did this occur naturally prior to opening?
No, control work. Sounds like Regct was right, stick shot above the crown.
I was bummed when I showed up and shit was closed but it ended up being a super fun day. Chally terrain was getting loaded so they closed some, then reopened it about 2 pm. Untracked beautiful snow and not many skiers. Some of the best turns I've ever had on that lift.
^ fkna
x2, one of the beauties of the really big. You can usually find something good if you look hard enough.
Sick! I’d love to get down tomorrow for a few laps...
Instagram @alt_patrol_backup has a couple of videos posted from a ticktock account (a mags?). I’d post the links, but don’t have insta installed on the iPad.
Saw this in the comments.
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So that explains why they have a toilet paper roll on the liftie desk.
It’s impossible to hide things like this in today’s camera clutter culture, so why they don’t just embrace and learn is really a mystery. You can’t hide the truth. Insurance is gonna figure it out anyway.
Drip drip drip.
Some of the videos/photos going around make you realize how lucky it was that no one was hurt and that the lift wasn't damaged and out of service for an extended period of time.
12’ crown holy cow
Some backyard hippie pow. So fun.
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That video showing snow piled inside the lift barn makes me doubt they will get it open tomorrow. But if they do, there will be lots of untracked powder for the taking.
Nice photo TB!
This one I had not seen. Damn that's some snow.
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We're chasing some POW from Pagosa Springs, CO. Figured to hit the resort Thurs / Fri and planned some b/c Sunday - but looking for a local or operator to take a small group of us for some bowl runs or anything fun Satuday with a snowmobile assist....All of us experts, love steeps and whatever ya got. Any reccomendations greatly apprecaited!
this should go well.
I mean, I get they want to hide an incident, but common sense tells everyone with a brain that shit happens. Can’t control Mother Nature. Historically ski resorts have gotten pummeled in bounds by slides. It happens. Life has risk.
I don’t think it reflects incompetence, negligence, or whatever other negative connotation.
you could argue that intentionally triggering a large slide right over an occupied chairlift and cabin is a bit negligent and incompetent but YMMV
^^^yeah, agreed.
Obviously this was prior to opening?
Made for a good story, anyway.
Skied some fun laps with swimmy this morning. The mountain is pretty windfucked today. Swifty operating at slow speed.
https://www.instagram.com/stories/sk...0465730870269/ Inside the Swifty lift barn
The only thing that seems negligent is having staff (and movable equipment) immediately below the slide path.
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That's kind of the elephant in the room, and as far as I've seen the resort has yet to issue any sort of statement to explain that.
https://snowbrains.com/patrollers-ev...sky-resort-mt/
Says patrollers had to evac off the chair.
That shot was thrown what, 200-300 yards from the terminal?
Shit happens. It’s not a totally controllable environment
What is controllable is whether people are below the slope when you're throwing bombs.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn
At the end of the day, it's a lesson learned the cheap way.
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Like bunion posted, they probably do it all the time and it never goes that big. That’s why we’re even talking about it. Shit happensQuote:
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Will be out today hunting for some of this...
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