Justo8484

a lot of shops will match prices advertised elsewhere. You're not taking bindings into account though, so there's another $150-200 depending on what you put on them. Don't just go for the cheapest thing you can find and do not get a tyrolia SL/SLR/SX binding just because they're cheap.

I read this as deboofing. Carry on.

It's all about the Og-do when you're in utah. It's the official haircut of the city of Ogden, after all. They were rocking this cut way before it's recent resurgence amongst the manager-requesting set.

don't the high speed lifts have a wind sensor that automatically trips if the gusts get too high?

Don't duck ropes and you're fine. The stuff I'm referencing is out of bounds, technically, but there's an access gate that may or may not be open when you're there. Don't go through it and you won't get cliffed out 🙂

Probably a little more than normal? I have 20 days at blue so far. Kiddo is getting a little older and a little easier to leave with parents, and during a normal year I probably would have traveled elsewhere to ski a few more days than I have this year. One day at hunter and one day at bear creek so far, aside from my days at blue.

Everyone's situation is different though. If I lived in north jersey and the driving time difference between blue and hunter was negligible, I'd probably get an epic pass. Hunter may be crazy, but it definitely skis much bigger than blue. Given that the closest epic resort to me is JFBB, which is still farther than blue, epic doesn't make as much sense. When my kid is older and can put in a full ski day somewhere and is more tolerant of a 2-3+ hour drive, maybe an epic pass makes more sense for me. As it stands right now, even with blue's price increase, it still makes the most sense for me, and probably a lot of other folks as well, even if an epic pass is not much more money. Time is money for a lot of people, and an extra 3+ hours in the car every weekend, plus more tolls and gas, definitely adds up.

I'm not sure that it's logistically possible to ski 5 midi laps in a day. Assuming you're not an eXtreme mountaineer, you'd be skiing down valle blanche, which is over 12 miles long with a hike or train ride back into town. You're also navigating crevasses and trying not to die... good stuff in there, but know where you're going! take the wrong turn and you're cliffed out above a 50+ footer with no option but to send it or hike back up.

That’s fair. I skied them last season up at frost and on paper they seem like a great do it all ski. Unfortunately the tune on them was absolutely garbage so it was tough to give them a fair assessment. If the tips and tails were detuned a bit so they were less hooky I think they would have been pretty fun. Pull the trigger and enjoy em for the rest of your trip! That ski should slay@toast21602’s favorite terrain at basin, the infamous sticky ditch. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So… what are you trying to do here? Buy a do it all trip ski, or something that would complement the RTM and start building a quiver? If it’s a do it all ski, enforcers or kendos might be better. If it’s something to compliment the RTM, the head may be the better option. Any of them would be a good addition to what you’ve got, but some overlap a little more than the others and would be a shift in the focus of your quiver vs just expanding it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

sounds like it's good for going fast, straight, and plowing through crud

My parents definitely have a set of those laying around collecting dust somewhere in their house. I should try and find them.

Binding weight and ski weight don't equate to the same thing on your feet though. A light ski with a heavy binding is still gonna ski like a like ski (assuming you're carving turns and not sliding around) until you get it in the air when you might notice the additional weight on your feet from the bindings.

even being lucky with lots of natural snow this year, i doubt they were up over the previous year. that restaurant is pretty busy all summer long and even with outdoor dining, i bet they missed out on a lot of revenue especially with the high markup on drinks from the bars not helping out as much as normal.

Waist width and flex only go so far in the stability game. The ski industry is in a weird pivotal place right now, and I think trends might start reversing in a few years unless there's some cosmic leap in ski construction (Renoun maybe? Haven't skied them). Wider underfoot will definitely make a ski more stable when skiing over uneven or chopped up snow, as will more layers of titanal, carbon, fiberglass, flax, cork, whatever other sort of exotic material you throw in there, but the mass of a ski plays a large role too. Stiff, wide, light skis tend to get tossed around and deflected in firmer crud snow than a ski with the same dimensions and flex but more mass would. If you think of it like a car, you can have a car that's super lightweight, really stiff, and it'll probably corner like a dream on a racetrack. We don't ski on the equivalent of a racetrack very often, especially at blue, so you need a car (or ski) that has some degree of compliance and suspension to it, to help it track the ground and maintain its grip when navigating over bumpier chopped up terrain. Blister Gear goes into pretty good detail about this with pretty much every ski they review, and while I think they probably ski on the more aggressive end of things, a lot of what they talk about in their reviews can be extrapolated to make sense in a lot of different contexts, too. Or just go the TGR route and get the longest, stiffest ski you can find.

Been a while since i've skied canyons, but i believe the tin can used to run earlier than the regular mountain lifts, as it isn't really a "skiing" chairlift but more of a transit thing to get you from the parking lot to the actual base. We stayed in the condos at the base of the cabriolet a few times and I swear I remember getting on that thing and up to the base of the ski area before the real lifts started spinning for the day. From what I've read (haven't skied them, so grain of saltyant and whatnot) next year's M6 mantra is supposed to be a more accessible/easier to ski ski than the M5 and previous iterations of the manta have been; tweaked flex characteristics, slightly looser rocker profile, etc. I wouldn't rule it out just because @AtomicSkier says the version he has (which is a few years old) would punish you.

I'm just curious to see if they can continue to get that rate when there are other options for entertainment and recreation next winter. People will be traveling to warmer destinations again, indoor dining will be less restricted if at all, people will feel more comfortable with having friends/family over at their houses, etc. Will some of the people who saw skiing as an opportunity so safely socialize with friends outdoors continue to do so in the future? Probably, but I doubt there's a 100% stick rate with that, and a bunch of people who justified that ticket price this year because they had nothing else to do might not feel the same way next season. Re: season passes, did anyone actually get the email that allows you to purchase the pass at the renewal rate? I got the email saying that I was going to get an email, which wasn't super helpful.

The town lift is great for a quick lunch stop without having to pay on-mountain prices. Davanza's pizza is like right next to the lift, and used to do a pretty good deal for two slices and a drink with school ID. I assume you still keep your school ID in your wallet for such scenarios, right? There's several different waist widths on the QST series. You don't want the QST Blank. Unless it's anything from the Rossi 7 series. Then just get the longest size possible. They're all too short. I've never felt so undergunned on a 195 in my life.

We bailed on this weekend for exactly that reason. I’ll ski in the rain for empty trails and no lift lines, but didn’t feel like driving and gambling that a bunch of people with day tickets were gonna be sucking up the weather because they were locked into their tickets. Went surfing instead, got more waves than I would have runs at blue, and the rain didn’t matter cause I was already in the water anyway. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

i guess they're limiting the early purchase price by quantity, not date? or both? always a mystery... it wouldn't surprise me if they do this, but to say that generation is wealthy is kind of a blanket statement that's probably false more than it's true.

hopefully i'll be up for some waterskiing at some point this weekend

it was a joke... i know they're not sitting there with scales and calculating BMI on the fly if you claim you're overweight

whole lot of speculation going on here without knowing the details of blue's financials that drive a decision like this. they're not here to hook us up, they exist to make money. blue strikes the balance of quality, proximity, price, and intangible convenience for me, so for factors other than cost alone, it'd take a lot for me to not buy a blue pass for next season. sometimes i even like to ski with some of you!

just drink like a half gallon of water before your official weigh-in! that should put you over the top

@saltyant I have a pair of these you can borrow for your trip. Might make your parking situation easier to sort out. These will fit in your overhead bag so you won't even have to deal with lugging a ski bag around the airport, shuttles, etc.