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Nice sunrise this morning.

Yea! No more Jersey cars!

That's A LOT of potatoes, jalapenos, and a huge cucumber (?) Meanwhile in Philly, I've produced 4 small grape tomatoes and a carrot, which is about the size of a nickle.

I might be of the minority around here, but i would pay more for a pass at Blue if they did actually limit the amount of passes sold in a day.

Planning skiing for the family is definitely going to be a bit more tricky than usual this year. I already reserved our house in Taos for early March, and I'm assuming that once they announce their plans that it won't be a problem to get lift tickets, but I'm mentally preparing myself to be flexible. Maybe even have to skip the trip if travel restrictions come up again due to Covid. Assuming no government-imposed restrictions I am planning on skiing wherever I want, I don't care if it costs more money, and as far as I'm concerned there is no Covid during ski season.

This whole reservation system is making Blue Mountain seem like they have their shit together.

Saw a low of 44° on my way into the hospital this morning. The Skison is approaching!

glad the only place i'm going this year is blue and don't need to give a shit about reservations. was pulling product images for 20/21 ski shop inventory earlier. stoke rising. hnnngggg

yeah, i just don't see this benefitting the customer in the long run in any tangible way. i also don't really see much of a need for the reservation systems to continue once things hopefully return to status quo. sounds like a great way to artificially limit supply, thus increasing demand, and prices.

^^bitches about having to make a reservation to ski, but buys tickets from liftopia. got it.

Make Blue Elite Again, Ill get the hats printed.

Never skied Waybin before. Is it near Hunter?

the epic day pass is the dumbest, most confusing thing. as far as i can tell, it's no different than buying a single day ticket, except you get the benefit of being able to reserve your days, at the cost of paying possibly more than the day-of (yes, i know, not a thing this winter) window rate. as someone else mentioned at some point, $101 a day might be great for vail, or park city or something, but completely screws over the person who's trying to pre-plan their one day a year they take their family skiing at jack frost. that's a ludicrous amount of money to spend to ski at frost, but it seems like without buying the epic day pass, you can't reserve a ticket more than one week out? maybe i missed something somewhere, and i know this season is gonna be anything but normal, but it wouldn't surprise me if it puts a lot of people off of a lot of the smaller epic resorts. maybe i spent too much time in the ocean today and am just a little extra salty, i dunno.

Reminds me of this bumper sticker.

I disagree that the credit card company would side with Liftopia based on a statement that it can't be refunded in the case where the service that you paid for was not provided. No refunds would be reasonably interpreted as you can't get a refund because you decided you couldn't or didn't want to go skiing that day. Not that you can't get your money back because the business refused to provide what you paid them to provide. It would be reasonable for them not to offer a cash refund but only to offer a credit against a future purchase, but they have to provide something in such a situation. McDonald's may have a no refund policy on their burgers. But if you pay your cash at window one and then get to window two and they say "sorry we are all out of burgers" then a "no refund" policy does not justify them sending you away empty handed without burger, cash or credit.

Sandbridge Virginia. We’re the last beach front building until you get to North Carolina.

I found this on Google regarding Liftopia: "all purchases on Liftopia are final and cannot be cancelled, refunded, changed or transferred. While we know this is rigid, the purchase restrictions are what allow us to sell lift tickets at a low price". I haven't seen any exception for when a resort closes. I've had good luck with it and used it in the past. I dont think I bought a pass I didnt use, but if I did it was probably $20 or something. I'd imagine the credit card company would side with Liftopia since you're agreeing to their policy when you buy the tickets.

Sounds like speculation to me. Otherwise I smell class action lawsuit.

Thanks. I tried finding the fine print just for fun but their Buy Now buttons don't work on my 'puter. The format looks the same as Liftopia which has the absolute nonrefundable policy. So I'm wondering if this is the same? Doesnt matter if it's sunny and 70, frozen over in ice, tornado, power outage, bigfoot invasion - no refunds ever with Liftopia.

Depends if Cocoa is part of the deal.

They have to offer a refund if not open at all. If they refuse - call your credit card and report fraud and they will get you your refund. But if open with only Vista with bare spots you are out of luck

It's a very exclusive mountain. Us peasants that ski blue are not welcome

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Honestly being able to make reservations Waybin advance as a pass holder for peak days and have fewer folks on the mountains those days sounds like a plus to me unless it proves very difficult to make reservations for desired days even as a pass holder.

Thank you for your concern. I was there to save lives, not need the saving.

OK so hear me out on this and let me know what you guys think. Reservations, in some form or another are going to get ironed out in the next year and then be here to stay in some form or another. By more accurately predicting the number of people on the mountain on a given day and their demographics a resort will be able to more efficiently make operational decisions.

Thank you for this. I’m in a similar boat as I’ve been trying to figure out the benefit of an epic day pass. Doesn’t seem like much at all

Lovin these temps....

Remember, JFBB is Vail now. This is their corporate policy. Seems insane to impose this on these small mountains. It seems to be designed to allow pass holders to reserve the big crowd days in advance - let them have first crack at X-mas, MLK, etc.... Then they will control crowds via the regular reservation system. They haven't announced capacity levels yet. Nor have they - I don't think - explained the plan for teh lodges.

Blue is now offering a four hour lift ticket.

Wow I was in Colorado then falalalala

Wow just wow restrictive..wow..

Liftopia is optional to save money if it works for me that day. It's not by any means restrictive like this new reservation crap. E.g. if Liftopia is sold out, I can still ski by paying full price. Now, if {insert resort name} is sold out, I'm not skiing there period.

Deal with it.