Summit Flame Thread

[Karl Stall]

O.K. - let's have it out. I thought that we voted twice and Jackson won both polls. Also, we would need to move the summit into February to garner best possible conditions if it's Jackson.

Clearly, whichever resort doesn't get the bid this year will get the next one so it's academic.

Maybe the best solution is to table this until we see how the winter is shaping up next Nov-Dec and go where the jet is flowing - Both JH and W/B can suck if it's not their year.

How are we going to actually arrive at a decision? Vote, Committee, Benevolent Dictator?

Just my 2 cents...let discord ensue...

[gincognito]

Ha! At least we're talking Summit again...

I didn't mean to discredit Jackson's win, I just thought that a showdown might be in order. Some ranting and raving followed by a simple poll with just the top two contenders. No vote stealing options. No fringe distractions. Winner take all.

Sick and ashamed and happy (and the real winner will be whoever steps up to organimize!),
d.

[grrrr]

I think the Olympic Bid process gets my vote. If we're going to hold it somewhere, someone should pony up and offer to organize. If no one ponies up, it could end up a dead dog (my only worry about JH).

I for one am nominating Prez day week as the week. And I will jump in to help, repeat help organize a Whistler trip.

Any takers?

[EPSkis]

Just musing ~ If you wait until Nov/Dec to start making reservations, it could get ugly.

I try to make reservations as FAR in advance as possible, and speaking for myself - I wouldn't be real comfortable waiting that long to begin planning...

[Karl Stall]

Frozen, Jiffy, Suit, TGR420, et al. to the white courtesy phone please.


It would be cool to have it in Jackson and get the TGR folks stoked (something that I belive is easy to do) to get involved, and it would be appropriate consideration of their generous hosting of our rantings here on the intraweb.

I would recommend one of the weekends on either side and bookend it with pres day.

Also, I would volunteer to coordinate enlisting others to organize - I already do that for a living.

[gincognito]

Yeah, doesn't the ball usually start rolling fairly early? Big E, Tyrone, Rusty: When did you guys commit to the challenge? If memory serves it was sometime early/mid summer.

Sick and ashamed and happy (and maybe we need another poll to nominate organizers... ),
d.

edit: Karl slipped one in there - my reply was to EP

[teledave]

Originally posted by EPSkis
Just musing ~ If you wait until Nov/Dec to start making reservations, it could get ugly.

I try to make reservations as FAR in advance as possible, and speaking for myself - I wouldn't be real comfortable waiting that long to begin planning...

Same here.

Edit: Nevermind.

Week of and weekend after Prez Day would prolly be good, but I wouldn't think the opposite situation would work very well.

[Woodsy]

since we are borging into a bigger & Bigger slice of people,
why not 2 summits
JH in Feb
Whistler in April

accomodate different schedules.

as much as I would love to make JH in Feb, honestly I doubt I can get away in the heart of my season.

Whistler in April though......,
although outside of UT & CO skiing I dont know crap so fwiw...................

[Karl Stall]

I am going to PM The Suit right now....re: tgr's official interest in helping

[grrrr]

Originally posted by teledave
Edit: Unless you mean something more like what KS was saying with the bookend idea.

'xactly. I'd go for the week after.

[divegirl]

I'd just like to say this: I honestly don't care where it is, because it will be in the other location the following year. As for planning, good luck...I say the first person to step up to the plate to plan either one, wins.

Go.

[AntiSoCalSkier]

I'm voting we do this like they choose the location for the next Olympics. I'm nominating myself to the selcetion committee. I accept PayPal, free vacations, equipment, or pretty much anything else of value.

[joshbu]

Woodsy - Honest question: if we can't find 1 person to organize 1 summit, how are we going to pull off 2? Plus, there's going to be another Utah Mini, and probably other related events. I honestly think we just need to get an organizer type person and let them make the final call. If they're really ambitious, maybe they can work both resorts and go with the one that cuts us better group deals?

[Karl Stall]

I pm'd Mr. Suit, and think that we should at least check with them first. They are some of the best event organizers around given their long track record of pulling off epic film premiers, golf tourney's, etc.

The way I see it, they would function as a sub-advisor, working in coordination with some maggot organizers to make it a sweet event. If they are game, I will work with them to help make it cool.

However, I am superstitious and figure that if I make a big deal out of this and get it to JH, it will snow 2 meters of snow in W/B that week, and I will be sacrificed to Ullr for my transgression.

[Buster Highmen]

I nominate Karl Stall, that pickle packing, Rendezvous, Apres Airfarce, kinda goy.

[Cosmic Bandito]

Why don't we just hook on with the Skiing Brotherhood? Or is it the Brotherhood of Skiing? Those cats throw one mean shindig.

Pass the Courvasier!!

[iceman]

Okay, I'm glad we got that settled. It's in Jackson over the week follwing Prez Day, and Frozen's the organizer.

That was easy.

[EPSkis]

The logistics of that would be HUGE.

I'm kind of surprised that JH isn't already a done deal. We'd be at TGR's doorstep. Helloooooo!

The logistics of getting everything arranged in JH with even minimal assistance from (somebody) at TGR are greatly reduced. I don't think you'd be twisting anyone's arm at TGR to ask for some "insider help" as far as referrals, etc.

IMO, If we have the opportunity to have the Summit in TGR's playground ~ We'd be silly NOT to.

Besides, they won't have to drive anywhere to film all the action. We'd go to THEM!

[Big E]

Rusty started on the Utah one in October/November I think, I started in August, and Shoe started in May I think.

Given what we've done in the past, and the fact that each year it gets a little bigger and we do more stuff, waiting until November would be death. Either someone would have to do the same ridiculous amount of work the 3 of us have done, but compressed into a much tighter span (particularly if its in Feb), or it will be a huge unorganized mess. In order to do stuff like the charity day at Red or the Valhalla cat day, getting things on the calendar early is crucial. It would be even more critical at either JH or W/B, given they're much larger, more big-corporation resorts than the mom-and-pop places of interior BC.

[The Suit]

TGR would love to see a summit here in Jackson. Earlier in the season is definitely better for us, as we start to have a lot of people out of town filming by late February.

We can help with organization, especially if we're mostly needed for contacts, advice, etc. I don't think we can take on responsibility for organizing the whole shebang, though.

Skiing, snowboarding, partying, mocking ... we can help with all of that.

[EPSkis]

Originally posted by The Suit
TGR would love to see a summit here in Jackson. Earlier in the season is definitely better for us, as we start to have a lot of people out of town filming by late February.

We can help with organization, especially if we're mostly needed for contacts, advice, etc. I don't think we can take on responsibility for organizing the whole shebang, though.

Skiing, snowboarding, partying, mocking ... we can help with all of that.

As I was saying...

There. So it's done?



edit: Now we just have to find the local that can dedicate the next 6 months of his/her life to making it happen.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Yeah like BigE said.....

I think I volunteered to organize Tahoe very early....like May-ish. I basically just started compiling an email list of people who were interested so that I'd know how many people to expect, so that I'd have some sense to how big the thing was going to be, and how much work was going to be needed. I really starting ramping up the rest of the efforst in the fall.

Someone needs to step up as organizer of this sucker soon.

Doesn't have to be a local though....Rusty and BigE did killer jobs on their respective summits and were not locals.

[bagtagley]

Hasn't Jackson won twice now?

[Buzzworthy]

Originally posted by Karl Stall
O.K. - let's have it out. Also, we would need to move the summit into February to garner best possible conditions if it's Jackson.

I like the idea of Jackon for the summit. I supported that before.

But we normally do the Utah Mini summit is late Mid to late Feb.

And yes, it may be a MINI summit, we still had about 80 maggots for those 5 wonderful days. We have had killer weather and great storms during this time, but MINI summits. I really do not want to change that, as the smiles on peolples faces (full of pow) were epic.

My 2 cents.

[summit]

I think it would be a good idea to have polls that don't just ask where it would be coolest to have the 05 summit, but polls that see what locations would allow the greatest attendance. Perhaps more people vote on JH but more people would actually be able to attend in the CO San Juans.