Vail tickets top $80!

[sea2ski]

Well as someone that has a Colorado pass and doesn't live in Colorado. All I have to say is you just need to make your commitment to ski Vail before November 1 and not to ski the heavy holiday weeks and you won't be paying $81. Seems to me the people who want to say they skied Vail to impress their friends at a cocktail party and buy a day pass are the ones who are going to suffer. Do you really think the Ross Perots of the world are going to blink at $81 lift tickets? The guy spends half a million dollars for ski instructors in a year.

[The AD]

Do you really think the Ross Perots of the world are going to blink at $81 lift tickets? The guy spends half a million dollars for ski instructors in a year.

Yeah, but how many Ross Perots are there out there skiing? Not too many. I don't think Vail is actually targeting the skiers who won't blink at spending $81 a day. I think they are targeting the skiers who will think $81/day is exorbitant but ultimately will still pay it if they have to. I know when I plan a ski trip the lift ticket price differences between resorts isn't a major factor in my decision. If it is for you then, yeah, you aren't the skier Vail is targeting.

[smitchell333]

What if it were less than $10?

If they paid ME like $50 it might be worth the hassle and stress of

1) Driving 1+ hours additional each way
2) Hiking across parking lots(and paying for parking!!!!!) both ways to shuttle buses only in order to hike more to the lifts
3) Lift lines - long waits and fighting the Eurotrash who cut in line
4) Chasing powder before it gets tracked out by rushing hoards - China Bowl done by 10:30
5) $9 Burgers and Beers
6) Surrounded by Type-Vails

[chaka]

73$ is too much for Heavenly. I see the Ski shultle buesness from South shore to any ski area other than Heavenly doing very well this winter. I wonder what the price will be for someone staying @ a South Shore hotel Casino?
I guess first time skiers to Tahoe think the price is average for the Tahoe area? Due to the waco prices in other parts of the country

$13 is too much for Heavenly

[Mountain Junkie]

well there ya go. CO. mags should actually thank Vail Inc. (shudder) for making it so cheap to ski in their backyard by starting the season pass price war, what, about 10 years ago.

Can I also thank Vail for the clusterfuck on I-70 during the weekends?

[hemlock hiker]

All this bitching about pricing at one resort. STFU and go somewhere that is in your budget.

Classic...

[Booger]

just for the record, how many of you buy single-day passes to vail? anybody? i didn't think so.

You can't really fault Vail for wanting to make money. If I had a hot commodity that I could sell for more than it was worth, I'd sell it.

Anyone who knows what he's doing can get the Colorado Pass...even if you only went to vail it would be like 30 dollars a day if you bought it when it was cheap. And if you don't like that, well, you can always vote with your feet, and go somewhere else.

Dittoe.

Who on this board would want to willingly ski Vail anyway? (and if you do...great...just dont do any backflips ).

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.

[The AD]

Who on this board would want to willingly ski Vail anyway?

As opposed to being dragged there, kicking and screaming?

I'd say I like skiing at Vail. It isn't my favorite place, but it isn't all that far down the list.

[MTT]

$13 is too much for Heavenly

WTF??????

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.

[Blurred]

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.

[shera]

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.

Noice!!!

Especially the gay part...

[sea2ski]

Yeah, but how many Ross Perots are there out there skiing? Not too many. I don't think Vail is actually targeting the skiers who won't blink at spending $81 a day. I think they are targeting the skiers who will think $81/day is exorbitant but ultimately will still pay it if they have to. I know when I plan a ski trip the lift ticket price differences between resorts isn't a major factor in my decision. If it is for you then, yeah, you aren't the skier Vail is targeting.

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.

[Squatch]

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.

compared to golf, skiing is like kicking around a ball of rags as a soccer ball in a third-world alley

[Vicious]

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.

I must be ghey as I was there, but Vail was officially gay today.

[Benny Profane]

compared to golf, skiing is like kicking around a ball of rags as a soccer ball in a third-world alley

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.

[Blurred]

I must be ghey as I was there, but Vail was officially gay today.

Yeah, really gay. OBernard Style:

[ptavv]

With big money to blow, I personally would go to Aspen. ... And the teaching doesn't get better either.

I will never waver from believing that the Alf Engen ski school at Alta is the best ski school in North America.

[whatcomridaz]

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.

[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.

Too funny! I think what sucks is YOU!!!

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 -

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!!!

[mookie blaylock]

Too funny! I think what sucks is YOU!!!

I've skied at Vail since my very first season and always, always, always found challenges there for me.

Vail is gay

[shera]

Vail is gay

pretty much

[mookie blaylock]

ok it's only slightly gay--ultimatly we are blessed to live in a part of the world with amazing ski areas

[cultvo]

Fuck! We should start a pool. ...What ski area will be the first to charge 3 figures for a day pass?
REEDICAROUSSS!!!

....Vail

[Core Shot]

Yep. You win.
All the gnarly ski movies are shot at Vail.

[Blurred]

Yep. You win.
All the gnarly ski movies are shot at Vail.

Oh, so if it's not in a movie, it's not rad.

Wonder why Seth skis there all the time....maybe he knows where to go.