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

[HankScorpio]

Some bullshit right here:

“the Hermitage Club – a member-owned private ski area in southern Vermont with a $50,000 initiation fee – received the maximum award of $175,000. In contrast, Cochran’s Ski Area in Richmond, which offers $19 day passes and primarily serves about 400 local families, received a grant of just over $8,600.”


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."..Hermitage Club, open only on weekends and holidays, used its $175,000 Ski Area Recreation Safety grant award to purchase hazmat suits for ski patrollers."

Hazmat suits?

Also odd they needed all that cash and only operated a fraction of the days every other ski hill on the state.

[biggins]

How the fuck did Suicide 6 qualify for $300k in Economic Recovery Grant Awards when Magic, Bolton, MRV, etc. only got $150k and Cochran's gets $32k?

I'm gonna guess that covers both S6 and the Inn?

[anotherVTskibum]

Some bullshit right here:

“the Hermitage Club – a member-owned private ski area in southern Vermont with a $50,000 initiation fee – received the maximum award of $175,000. In contrast, Cochran’s Ski Area in Richmond, which offers $19 day passes and primarily serves about 400 local families, received a grant of just over $8,600.”


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I'm guessing there's a correlation to size and cost of accounting and legal teams.

I'd also expect that Cochran's revenue is sufficiently lower in a normal year, by design, that it hurt their ability to claim grants tied to loss of revenue.

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[Bottleman]

I'm guessing there's a correlation to size and cost of accounting and legal teams.

I'd also expect that Cochran's revenue is sufficiently lower in a normal year, by design, that it hurt their ability to claim grants tied to loss of revenue.

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How DARE you bring reason to a TGR discussion!!!!!

[Bottleman]

A mea culpa from the Belt du Banana - "discussion" should have been in quotes.

[Bottleman]

."..Hermitage Club, open only on weekends and holidays, used its $175,000 Ski Area Recreation Safety grant award to purchase hazmat suits for ski patrollers."

Hazmat suits?

Also odd they needed all that cash and only operated a fraction of the days every other ski hill on the state.

Of course "need" and "want" are two separate issues....

[retirwntm]

You mean like “I NEED my Range Rover brought around to the front of the house. We’re going to the (Hermitage) club.”


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[Lostintime]

Be careful what you say about our Politburo, Komrade. They know what is best for us.

[buckethead]

Good fun at Gore again today

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that looks fantastic. on my two days at gore the steeps were fun but flat (and on one run i was a moment from strategizing self arrest!)

have you or anyone else been to gore lately? i see rumor and lies are ungroomed on today's report. guessing they're done grooming up
tops wondering how the cover's holding?

thanks

[m2711c]

gore is top only.... mandatory gondi downloads. creative grooming on the flats.

[buckethead]

^^ that's a bummer. you saved me pulling the trigger on a ticket though so thanks!
i had a feeling the mountain wouldn't work right with all of those limited interconnects between lifts (part of the place's intrigue for me). likely kmart spring pass it is from here out...glad i got to gore, magic and MRG when i did!

[singlecross]

Saddleback groomers will still go another week or two. Other trails... not so much.

[Bottleman]

Yuuuuuuuup







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[m2711c]

Saddleback groomers will still go another week or two. Other trails... not so much.

duuuude..... you used that trail up!!!!

[Boreas]

Jeans kind of day.

[Bottleman]

Jeans kind of day.

Color me impressed.

[jhyatt]

Color me impressed.

Maybe if they were jorts.

[singlecross]

duuuude..... you used that trail up!!!!

Yeah, the entrance was a little steep so I side slipped and pushed all the snow off it. It’s a little trick I learned from snowboarders.

[Boreas]

Maybe if they were jorts.

When I realized I left my ski pants at home I thought for a hot minute about making some stylish nut huggers, but I had to go back to work and well......... cancel culture.

[cat in january]

Vermont ski grants maybe employee based? I did learn today that the hermitage is still going. Last I knew it was going to be sold off. This country gets a bigger and bigger gulf of wealth every year. Frick stock market has gone up and up despite Covid ravages

Loaf was fun. They had gage roped off for racer kids, found another private trail with good pitch. Man I loved my brahma’s in the loose



Going up to tucks tomorrow. Maybe left gully chute and hillmans. B&W skis boots poles say hello

[VTskibum]

gore is top only.... mandatory gondi downloads. creative grooming on the flats.

Not surprising, they were barely squeaking by Saturday afternoon down low when this pic was taken. Whiteface Sunday wasn’t terribly far behind.


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[m2711c]

whiteface snow currently has an aggressive aggregate ratio.....

[cat in january]

Ouch

[half-fast]

Gore’s only asking $50 for tickets now

[AyoBeng]

I am not heading up there on a weekend if I can avoid it this year.


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Zero people in Oakes today aside from our group.