East Coast Roll Call #??? 20-21 Covid closures and hard core touring! Be Fit or Sit

[Boreas]

Ya think? "Excluded out of work." The fuck. First I want to meet the cube shit who wrote that and slap them up the side of the head, and, if it was written in a Colorado cube, I also want to kick him in the knee.
Forty years of skiing, and that never happened to me, and never heard of it. I hope they were on strike. I'd commend them for doing it if it was a work action. Because that fucking company sucks. I drive 2.3 hours to stand around and hear that second hand after I just went back to my car. Not one fucking notification from the mountain through email. There were still people rolling into the parking lot, and one guy said, yeah, no notification. Fuck, they have our emails. It's basically our IDs. It would have been easy to robo email us if anybody knew what the fuck they're doing, but we have seen the pathetic level of customer service that company delivers all summer, so, no surprise. Tell us what the fuck is going on. No, I have to skulk around the internet to find the real story.

I hate this company. I wish that Covid spreads through the board room. The best thing that could happen to skiing is for them to fall into financial ruin and divest anything good, before it's to late. Fuck them.

By way of GPS and data usage, Vail notified the Patrol you were heading their way, Patrol said “oh fuck no” and went on strike. Apparently to appease the patrollers the agreement was to not notify the poor Eeyore, and give Patrol a day of rest due to the perceived trauma they may have had to endure when you slipped off loading.

Think of it this way Eeyore they saved you from injury.

[Benny Profane]

Wipe the soup from your Phish tie dye, dork.

[Dee Hubbs]

As of 6pm EST Wed-Fri are blacked out from booking at Hunter. Not booked up, but listed as "Not yet available".

[Benny Profane]

The only days that were sold out before today were January weekends.

[Benny Profane]

You gotta wonder if Epic is contacting all the skiers who reserved Wed. - Fri. about this, or just letting them drive to nothing.

[Vt-Freeheel]

Bunny wasn't at Hunter today.

"He would be way more bent out of shape if he was."


By the way, they are closed tomorrow, so sleep in.

[Benny Profane]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...id=19076590902

[Benny Profane]

https://m.facebook.com/groups/Northe...5585425771540/

[jhyatt]

^^ Rad photos T!

Are there any lift ticket deals going this season? I noticed Cannon cancelled the NH res. Tuesdays and the two-for-one Wednesdays.
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No more deals. Indy pass if you have it. No day ticket window sales. Prepurchase online. No tram. But no reservations needed for passholders.

[buckethead]

benny, hear ya. i have a ticket for tomorrow, i found out via a text from a non-skier friend at 11pm last nite.
vail absolutely sucks.
selling back this am.

edit: submitted online form.

last time i cancelled at hunter the only option to cancel a modern, easy, on-line purchase was to call a horribly poor sounding phone menu (at vail central) and wait...and wait...and wait...only to be disconnected after 25mins. no one answering phones at hunter. no one replying to my several emails (the other posted option at that time. i finally had to report them to my cc provider to get my money back.

buy in 2020/21...time machine to 1977 technology to get a refund.
glad they fixed that at least.

yea total fail by hunter/vail to not use all of the personal info they have to inform ticket holders and show that all that they want to keep their customers.

vail = ski area slumlord. they bring none of their supposed high-end cachet to their mountain victims.

[Vt-Freeheel]

Sweet forecast, lol




Someone should burn some fucking skis

[PhishDaly]

No more deals. Indy pass if you have it. No day ticket window sales. Prepurchase online. No tram. But no reservations needed for passholders.

Burke has 2-1 Wednesdays and $30 1/2 PM tickets on Sunday and Monday
https://skiburke.com/skiing-and-ridi...s/day-tickets/

[cat in january]

^^ Rad photos T!

Are there any lift ticket deals going this season? I noticed Cannon cancelled the NH res. Tuesdays and the two-for-one Wednesdays.

Thinking maybe Saddleback on Friday as the day ticket is pretty reasonably priced. Stoked to see all the work they did this past Summer.

Best deal in USA: $15 9am to 9pm with a $10 llbean gift card back to you this Friday at Black Mountain of Maine (not sure if card is there every Friday, but it is $15). Small mountain groomers until we get snow, but our glades stack up with anyones on the EC when the snow is in. Despite Covid we had our largest expansion by far this Fall.

[Peruvian]

Best deal in USA: $15 9am to 9pm with a $10 llbean gift card back to you this Friday at Black Mountain of Maine (not sure if card is there every Friday, but it is $15). Small mountain groomers until we get snow, but our glades stack up with anyones on the EC when the snow is in. Despite Covid we had our largest expansion by far this Fall.

I can’t wait to get back over to BMOM. An entire weekend of tickets costs less than a day at most resorts. Add to that the amazing nordic trails and night skiing and it would be a great time. Honestly a Mag Summit there would be cool.

We have stayed in Bethel and wonder if there is anywhere better for future trips?

[SoVT Joey]

Sweet forecast, lol




Someone should burn some fucking skis

I’ll donate to the snow gods, I have a couple pairs I’d light if it meant I could unleash the Nocta

[ECRC Mod]

Ya think? "Excluded out of work." The fuck. First I want to meet the cube shit who wrote that and slap them up the side of the head, and, if it was written in a Colorado cube, I also want to kick him in the knee.
Forty years of skiing, and that never happened to me, and never heard of it. I hope they were on strike. I'd commend them for doing it if it was a work action. Because that fucking company sucks. I drive 2.3 hours to stand around and hear that second hand after I just went back to my car. Not one fucking notification from the mountain through email. There were still people rolling into the parking lot, and one guy said, yeah, no notification. Fuck, they have our emails. It's basically our IDs. It would have been easy to robo email us if anybody knew what the fuck they're doing, but we have seen the pathetic level of customer service that company delivers all summer, so, no surprise. Tell us what the fuck is going on. No, I have to skulk around the internet to find the real story.

I hate this company. I wish that Covid spreads through the board room. The best thing that could happen to skiing is for them to fall into financial ruin and divest anything good, before it's to late. Fuck them.

Nice blog. Keep on whining, but karma's a bitch. It couldn't have happened to a bigger asshole. Hunter. LOL. At least you're staying out of VT.

[m2711c]

lamest alias since deepsouthmafia.....












fact.

[Benny Profane]

Nice blog. Keep on whining, but karma's a bitch. It couldn't have happened to a bigger asshole. Hunter. LOL. At least you're staying out of VT.

Wow. You guys have a mod? I'll bet this is VTbum, right? I have that nerd on ignore, now I have to put his evil twin alias in the same toilet.

[cat in january]

We don’t have him, he has himself in his own personal circle jerk.

A best western is being built in Rumford so there will some lodging in the future. Mill is still going, but the labor force has been dramatically reduced leaving poor housing stock and a hollowed out downtown. Black definitely would be a fun place for a summit

[Woodsy]

Sweet forecast, lol




Someone should burn some fucking skis

nice work
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[buckethead]

Nice blog. Keep on whining, but karma's a bitch. It couldn't have happened to a bigger asshole. Hunter. LOL. At least you're staying out of VT.

way to bring the stoke MOD.

benny,
not to worry. it appears ticket refunds should only take EIGHT WEEKS.
i complained above about the 70s tech required to cancel previously.
eight weeks is like 1800s stage coach tech
(4weeks our with the paperwork...4 weeks back with my refund)
fkg joke!)

[powbmps]

Still not convinced that skinning is fun.



And Vail does suck. They charged me twice for one season pass, sent me two cards with my name and photo, and then cancelled one of them. After trying for two months to get my $500 back, I gave up and filed a dispute with the credit card company. Dicks.

[buckethead]

^ yup, for a big and (once) prestigious corporation they behave like an over-leveraged, cash poor, GRIFT! go figure.

[Benny Profane]

way to bring the stoke MOD.

benny,
not to worry. it appears ticket refunds should only take EIGHT WEEKS.
i complained above about the 70s tech required to cancel previously.
eight weeks is like 1800s stage coach tech
(4weeks our with the paperwork...4 weeks back with my refund)
fkg joke!)

I have the Epic northeast midweek pass, so, no refund issue, but I would not be surprised at all if I recieve some sort of robo warning for not using my reservation slot for that day.

[smartyiak]

^ yup, for a big and (once) prestigious corporation they behave like an over-leveraged, cash poor, GRIFT! go figure.

Yep. Imma go with Bennie and Bucket on this one. That's pretty eff'd. Since their largest customer base out here has to be NYC; hopefully some big-wig muckity-muck (or 10) or his/her snowflake had to turn around upon arrival and they (and, more importantly, their money) can raise cain.

But...prolly not.