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So the Ski magazine poll for top 10 resorts just came out, and Colorado got six with Utah at two. And of course these types of polls usually suck, and yes it is Ski magazine. Looks like the winners generally had towns associated with them. The poll was for "resorts" and not "ski areas". Anyway, thought I'd throw this one to the wolves.
Personally not very happy with CO's winners, but hey.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=76885
You didn't read the fine print its:
Top 10 Resorts
to spend your millions of dollars
Everyone knows Deer Valley is the best place EVAR!!!11!!
Where the fuck is Jackson?
Any resort where Deer Valley is in the top 10, let alone 1st, is automatically disqualified. Thanks for playing.
jackson, alta, bird, squaw, they all suckQuote:
Originally Posted by skiracer88_00
1. Beaver Creek
2. Beaver Creek
3. Beaver Creek
4. Beaver Creek
5. Beaver Creek
6. Beaver Creek
7. Beaver Creek
8. Beaver Creek
9. Beaver Creek
10. Beaver Creek
yer just sore you came in #10 ;)
I like the fact that Jackson is not on that list.
Thank goodness Beaver Creek and Steamboat made it - they're so often overlooked :rolleyes2
Well, at least this made their ski reviews look good. Hard to imagine.
No Silverton? Who votes on these things?
Samuel or Hole? If it's the latter, it's located in Wyoming.Quote:
Originally Posted by skiracer88_00
Beaver Creek rules you hoser.Quote:
Originally Posted by bite me
Big Sky? Bueller? Bueller?
Yeah Beaver Creek has the gnarliest, sickest, sweetest room service this side of Beverly Hills.Quote:
Originally Posted by grskier
doesent it deserve to be? i mean, i haven't skied everywhere on that list, but ive been to a few,and jackson is better than all of them ive been to IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by MuleSkinner
That list sucks...
I agree with the post about..."best place to spend your millions" those places are all "high end"...
ALTA..
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Ski magazine isnt even about skiing. Its about where you should go to spend your spare money at a resort where you will be treated like a king, and you might possible ski a couple groomers while you're there. I mean, don't they do SUV reviews in that magazine?
i like to read ski magazine whilst having my testicles scrubbed
What are you kidding! Jackson Hole can't hang with the big boys! Their room service, ice skating rink, fine dining, day care, and valets can not come anywhere close to the badasses of Deer Valley, Vail, Snowmass, Aspen, Beaver Creek, ect., ect. ect. You name me ONE, just ONE, 5 star chief at Jackson! I dare you! See you can't, you know why??? Because all Jackson is about is powder, vertical, and steeps as if premium coffee and a good turn down service aren't their equals.Quote:
Originally Posted by skiracer88_00
Maybe this was all a joke, and they'll come up with their real list soon.
Did anyone ever see one of Ski's "rating cards"? I'm ashamed to admit that I've subscribed for a while, and I've never seen one.
DV #1 - get used to it.
I worked at Brian Head, UT for several years and every time these stoopid polls come out our owner would freak out over BH not being on the list, and that as the marketing guy I wasn't doing my job.
If you've ever skied there, you're laughing right now.
http://img.findaproperty.com/library/new/yuppie.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
Funny, those are the top ten resorts I'd recomend people avoid, other than maybe Whistler, and really, I could name 10 resorts in interior BC that I'd pick before WB.
Fixed it for you...
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Originally Posted by telepow
That settles it. This is the year I'm going to tick off "First Tracks At Deer Valley" from my list of things to do.
That's one of the problems with Ski and their resort poll. It's the same people filling out the poll year in and year out. So, you get the same poll results year in and year out. I actually wrote to the editors and told them that their survey figures are stale and they needed to update their polling pool. IIRC, their response basically was, " yeah, we know but oh well." Besides Ski's demographics hardly fit the Maggot profile.:wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by bite me
I think the vote is in the form of which resort spends the most on advertising in Ski magazine... just a thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
It is just like when they do product reviews, if they get a free product to demo it turns out to be an ad more than anything else.
Beer just came out of my nose onto my keyboard! That is funny shit.:biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Chemical Ali' The Wax Master
5 star chief? Is that a Volkl carver/K2 powder ski mix? It always amazes me what happens when one company buys another...Quote:
Originally Posted by YourSupremeExcellency
When quality and amount of the mountain groomed is a major component of the selection process one knows that these lists are useless as far as skiing goes. Ski valet services rank higher then gnar terrain.
This list is about "Resorts", that just happened to be associated with ski areas.
SWEET!! Maybe now even less gapers will come to my gnarsty, little, end of a sketchy dirt road, portapotty bathroom using, exposed ridge hikin', 200 skier per day, under $10 dollar burger eatin', 4000 foot vertical, 400" a year snowin', shitty..shitty ...shitty ski area.
Did you really expect anything different from the media,perceptions & people that are controlled ,& guided by it? This is like saying GW is an imbecile & how did he get voted into office. Expect greater strides in idiotic thoughts & behaviors from our residents,& the world at large as we move bravely into the new world order.
I think you mean *fewer* gapers. And is it really only 200 skiers per day? I would have though you were much more crowded than that. Maybe I need to visit.:wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by moonlightdbag
That pretty much sums it up. Does anyone really expect Silverton or Mt.Baker to be on any list in Ski magazine? The last time I leafed thru an issue of Ski magazine (which, admittedly, was about ten years ago - so things may very well have changed) half the magazine was some supplemental featuring $500,000+ mountain real estate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toadman
You shut your whore mouth. You want to overrun by fartbags?Quote:
Originally Posted by ccwaskier
I say Hurray to Ski Magazine for getting it right!
Preeeetty sure that's the way it works in the Bro-zines as well....Quote:
Originally Posted by Poz
yeah...*fewer*....our biggest day last season, with a packed parking lot and cars parking allong the road, was 2000 skiers. Most weekdays there were way less than 50 cars in the parking lot.:biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ottime
If Vail is the second best resort in the U.S. I quit skiing...
Bingo. Money talks. If it is anything like Golf Digest, you could even find a statistical correlation between size/number of ads placed and ranking on the "Best Places to Play" list.Quote:
Originally Posted by Poz
Free market my ass.