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There definitely seems to be a lot more people around the site this morning than I have noticed in the past.

Still not sure of the geometry that's going to happen for the lower house, but in the webcam there is clearly one footer visible, and this morning they are doing all kinds of measuring back from that footer. I think that footer is for the house and not the first tower, I'm thinking the first tower footer is probably down in that recessed area. Wonder what point they are trying to establish? Hopefully not where to place another house footer . . .

Might go with the wife and kids, would be the 25th if we do. Soccer game for one of my little shits at 2:30 on Saturday.

I really can't figure out where they are at with progress on this. On one hand, they don't have a lower house or any towers erected (huhhuh) that we can see. But on the other hand, they already have the traditional Six Pack Lake in place.

Yeah, if there was verbiage in there that said you could convert tickets to companion for a refund or even a non-expiring credit after earning the pass, I would have done it because I would have guaranteed saving at least what it cost, minus the time value of course. But that would not be in their best financial interest, so I get why they would never allow that. It could be an interesting play on their part to allow that option at some point in the future, but make the companion pass more difficult/expensive to achieve. There would be some portion of people who signed up for the deal who would then fail to qualify, and Southwest would get to keep all the revenue from the tickets already booked that were planned to be companion fares by the customer. It wouldn't be unfair on SW part per se, because the customer would still get to use all the airfare they bought, they just wouldn't get half of it for "free."

Nice. They were both still down when I checked about 30 minutes ago

Looks like concrete truck on site pouring for the lower house:

It's a good thing they are so far ahead, they can afford to shut it down with so much daylight left . . .

Valley cam is back online. The piles of dirt are still there. Thank god. Main St still down.

Well, 2 $79 flights. Down and back. But yeah, that’s the deal. I’m not gonna do it though. The gotcha for me is that you have to wait until you have your companion pass on Jan 4 to book the companion fares. My luck, I would buy my fare to Denver now and then the plane would fill up, so wouldn’t be able to book Pops or should have to switch flights, and by then the prices may have gone up so much it wipes out the savings. 2 or more flights I thought I would make, no brainer. To try to save $240 on one trip, not worth the risk

No, fly by then. Considering buying the ATL flight anyway. It’s Southwest so if I decide it’s not worth the effort I can cancel and get credit to fly to DEN in the winter anyway

Definitely have to hurry. Need to register and book the qualifying ticket tonight. I considered a turn and burn to ATL for $79 each way. Not sure it would be worth it though, Pops and I will likely only make the one trip in the companion pass period. It would save money for sure, but not really enough to make it worth the hassle. If there was a decent chance of using it twice, I’d do it for sure

This could be interesting for a pair that would entertain multiple trips in the first couple months of 2023. Free 2 month companion pass on Southwest for flying one round trip this year. Have to register by today though. https://thepointsguy.com/news/3-month-companion-pass-promotion/amp/

Looks like we're down to just the Vista cam. Hopefully they get Valley and Main Street back online.

I know it did, but none of us really expected it to. I was just messing with ya. But yer not fooling anyone. You’ll be there for opening day even if it’s just the Vista lift

https://www.paskiandride.com/forums/topic/19799-opening-day-thread-112318/?do=findComment&comment=401300

Pops and I are planning to head west for a short trip but haven't made any plans yet. Was tentatively looking at Winter Park but haven't really dug into anything yet. What kind of trip are you looking at? Looks like Epic Pass prices go up in about 8 hours.

DeSantis for President!

Yeah, and also makes sense that they would have started at Camel, since they would have needed to get to a certain point on that lower house before opening the waterpark, I would think.

I wonder if they're not using the same contractors for both mountains. Maybe they just finished concrete at Camel so they moved that crew down to Blue

They zoomed out a bit on the Main St cam too, so that one will eventually be worth watching as well.

Third base coach is way outside of the coaches box. If that's the opponent, I would ask the ump to enforce that if I was the Pig's manager. Gotta win the mind game too, lol

Waffle House

Some digging on the left side of the Main St cam. Can't see much but a pile of dirt and the occasional hoe bucket, but maybe some footers coming soon.

Here's a screenshot of a partly installed lower lift house: