The New and improved Oregon 2020/2021 Ski Season Thread

[Toadman]

The Red chair.
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Damn, if they were following proper COVID social distancing guidelines, that line would be all the way back to Little Pine! Last look at the webcams and wind gauges indicate some spicy, blustery conditions.

[jonesy]

Damn, if they were following proper COVID social distancing guidelines, that line would be all the way back to Little Pine! Last look at the webcams and wind gauges indicate some spicy, blustery conditions.

Actually a lift op friend at lil Pine said the line was almost that long. Nuts. Hoodoo was quiet from the looks of the webcams. I'm covid bachelor like a plague till next year.

[beer30]

Good lord, skiing as we knew it is no more. I think it’s been dying a long time but love blinds one to a partners faults

[CnRzG]

Welp... I got the two of us a room at BW in Welches for Christmas Night.. Gonna ski under the lights on Christmas Night drive minimally to horizontal land and avoid most of the traffic on Saturday morning to Tflat. At least gonna keep my tradition of skiing on Christmas Day alive. It's that or Chinese Food from Shandong.

[jonesy]

Welp... I got the two of us a room at BW in Welches for Christmas Night.. Gonna ski under the lights on Christmas Night drive minimally to horizontal land and avoid most of the traffic on Saturday morning to Tflat. At least gonna keep my tradition of skiing on Christmas Day alive. It's that or Chinese Food from Shandong.

Ought to be a good xmas pow night at Tflat. Low FL & a few new inches.

[CnRzG]

Ought to be a good xmas pow night at Tflat. Low FL & a few new inches.

One can hope.

[k2skier112]

Got to love storm skiing during the holidays. Or, why else would you be out there standing in line?

The wind direction can really effect Stadium bigly. No excuse for Blue not running

[thefortrees]

The wind direction can really effect Stadium bigly. No excuse for Blue not running

After getting stuck on blue a couple years ago, I’m never riding that fucking thing again. At the time, the diesel motor didn’t have enough cajones to rotate the cable with 100% loaded chairs (or so I was told by a staff member)

[jonesy]

After getting stuck on blue a couple years ago, I’m never riding that fucking thing again. At the time, the diesel motor didn’t have enough cajones to rotate the cable with 100% loaded chairs (or so I was told by a staff member)

Did you get your free hot coco coupon?

[thefortrees]

Did you get your free hot coco coupon?

Never received an email with the coupon as promised. Maybe I’ll follow up this year...

[jonesy]

Never received an email with the coupon as promised. Maybe I’ll follow up this year...

I'd demand whip cream as a consolidation for their lack luster performance. This tequila is good, beers next.

[Sessiøn]

After getting stuck on blue a couple years ago, I’m never riding that fucking thing again. At the time, the diesel motor didn’t have enough cajones to rotate the cable with 100% loaded chairs (or so I was told by a staff member)

I made the choice that day to stick it out waiting for MHX. No Ragrets.

[TBS]

So I talked to a nice lady at MtB about Parkwhiz’s out of the blue requirement last night to have cc info on file to access free parking.

She told me she wasn’t aware that this happened, especially so close to the release of inventory. We confirmed early on that she was not the Powdr executive with authority over the parking process, so focused on who I might contact to resolve.

The best she could offer was:
(1) send an email to info@mtbachelor.com
(2) use the web interface to reserve parking - no cc info required there

Problem with (2) - refresh rate on the web interface is way slow compared to the app. Your chances of snagging reservations will be way lower using the web rather than the app. Puma first determined this, and I get the same results.

So while waiting for wind holds to lift I drafted a polite, constructive email positing that the simplest, most elegant solution would be to roll back the 5:50Pm 12/21 update so that storing cc info is optional not mandatory. Somehow they got along without this info before last night.

Ms TBS works with similar types of platform software. She sez it looks like MtB customized the basic Parkwhiz app and decided to require cc info, so they can unrequire that as well. She also sez some apps won’t work if there’s no cc info in the user profile, but you can generally prefill with dummy credentials.

Feel free to contact MtB with respectful feedback and positive suggestions
Info@mtbachelor.com
Parking@mtbachelor.com

[MHSP1497]

Yeesh.

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Don't understand why Blue and Stadium don't run more often.

This is why my step-daughter and I chose to walk up the Glade and ski down that today. Fresh turns, NO lines (or really people for that matter) and we got to enjoy ourselves without the high blood pressure from the lift line madness.

[jonesy]

So I talked to a nice lady at MtB about Parkwhiz’s out of the blue requirement last night to have cc info on file to access free parking.

She told me she wasn’t aware that this happened, especially so close to the release of inventory. We confirmed early on that she was not the Powdr executive with authority over the parking process, so focused on who I might contact to resolve.

The best she could offer was:
(1) send an email to info@mtbachelor.com
(2) use the web interface to reserve parking - no cc info required there

Problem with (2) - refresh rate on the web interface is way slow compared to the app. Your chances of snagging reservations will be way lower using the web rather than the app. Puma first determined this, and I get the same results.

So while waiting for wind holds to lift I drafted a polite, constructive email positing that the simplest, most elegant solution would be to roll back the 5:50Pm 12/21 update so that storing cc info is optional not mandatory. Somehow they got along without this info before last night.

Ms TBS works with similar types of platform software. She sez it looks like MtB customized the basic Parkwhiz app and decided to require cc info, so they can unrequire that as well. She also sez some apps won’t work if there’s no cc info in the user profile, but you can generally prefill with dummy credentials.

Feel free to contact MtB with respectful feedback and positive suggestions
Info@mtbachelor.com
Parking@mtbachelor.com

[Toadman]

Thanks for the Customer Service Report TBS.

I can confirm as others have, that the web based parking reservations is the major suckage. Phone app is the way to go.

Will try again next Monday at 6pm after I burn another day this Saturday.

At least now those slimy bastards have my cc info. They better not get hacked, cause I ain't accepting a free cocoa coupon as compensation.

[puma]

I have heard the issue with the credit card message when attempting to reserve is actually just a terrible error message. You took too long to get through the reservation prior to inventory being taken up. (Bad design, if true) I've reserved many without an issue. Then, I had the issue, entered the card details, and by the time that was done, nothing was available. Who knows, it sucks, no doubt about that. This said, I have not checked every day, but pretty much every day, and parking has always been available the day of. Not ideal for those who like to sleep in, don't live in bend, or don't have flexibility, but available.

[TBS]

Let 'em know
I don't recommend use of Jonesy's visuals though...

If nothing else, it creates a record in the event the cc info does get hacked. Tougher for them to get away with just a free cocoa for compensation.

Puma - let's see if MtB confirms that this is all just due to a bad error message

[Sessiøn]

It's funny watching people on T-line social media complaining how every other resort is "doing it better" when it comes to reservations over first come, first serve. It's obvious, they aren't.

Limiting parking by who gets there first is the best way. Get up early or stay fucking home. Sorry you can't sleep in, and stop for breakfast. I'm happy to pull in before 7 and sit in my car.

[jonesy]

Driving to the ski resort.

[thefortrees]

Cheers and merry Xmas

[Toadman]

Limiting parking by who gets there first is the best way. Get up early or stay fucking home. Sorry you can't sleep in, and stop for breakfast. I'm happy to pull in before 7 and sit in my car.

That's actually not the best way. Just revisit the Crystal Mt. bitch session from last season about getting up to the mountain at 7am and no parking available. So the next week, people get their at 6am, then 5am.

At least with this crappy reservation system, you don't waste your time driving up there to get turned away. Although, the stupid and clueless may do that despite the signage saying NO PARKING AT BACHELOR W/O RESERVATION. And more signs that say, DO NOT PARK ON HIGHWAY. But judging by the cars I have seen parked on the highway, people don't reed two gud.

[Toadman]

I think this is more representative of driving to the ski resorts...

[river59]

After getting stuck on blue a couple years ago, I’m never riding that fucking thing again. At the time, the diesel motor didn’t have enough cajones to rotate the cable with 100% loaded chairs (or so I was told by a staff member)

I grew up skiing and working at a totally podunk family ski area in NW Indiana. They had 1 lift, an ollld fixed grip that saw terrifyingly little maintenance. That thing broke down nearly every damn day. Sometimes for hours. If it wasn't broken, it was pissing hydraulic fluid into the loading zone and on the haul rope and chairs.

Ski patrol were a bunch of 80s ski movie rejects. They were there to drink schnapps out of their bota bags and fart around. Better to take your chances with frostbite than to trust those dinguses at the end of a rope.

When the lift went down, evac was not an option. You waited until they could jerry rig the diesel engine to run for a few minutes or you took the leap of faith onto the wrod. I wonder how many hours I spent swaying in the breeze freezing my balls off?

All that being said, I never hesitate to jump on blue when it spins but I spend the whole time having flashbacks.

[OregonDead]

Jonesy was right. Night was the right call for Dec 22, 2020. Wind was obviously blowing earlier in the day so yeah you wanted to follow those deposits in the upper bowl. Down on red chair it was soft and creamy all over. No lift lines and easy parking right up front