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That's annoying. I was planning on using it.

Very unfortunate. I will say that Montage really killed it in the photography department this year. Whoever is out there playing with cameras and/or drones has really knocked it out of the park and made the place look amazing.

You're like Blue Mountain, you're leaving money on the table

What a difference 5 days makes! That's wild. I officially take back my extreme optimism in getting to mid April

We really might need a cheap-asses trying to save $50 thread.

Wanna just give us both $50?

Woah woah woah, I just though of a loophole. What if you are teaching the classes......

Trust me, I'm in Business School, it all checks out in my spreadsheet.

I heard Dr. Toast is going to tank a project or two so he can milk that for an extra semester and the sweet sweet discount.

Looks like Saturday might be it for Mt. Blue. Lots of rain in the forecaast for Sunday. It'll be almost 70 on Saturday so break out the sunscreen and vests again.

And with no high speed lifts it would keep certain parking lot dancers away.....

I asked for a possible different location and/or day at Wegmans when I got my first and got a hard no.

Completely agree. Realistically 90% of "improvements" a mountain could make would actually be detrimental to PASRs. The perfect mountain for PASRs would be Mount Cain on Vancouver Island. It's got two t-bars, a group of volunteers to man them and places to park and camp. Oh and some gnarly rocky mountain terrain.

Everyone is getting all worked up about this company coming in and dumping some cash on both CB and Blue. The odds of anything changing from a high up level is extremely slim. Saying that "This company owns both Blue and Camelback" is like saying a credit union owns both my car and the guy's down the block. Technically true but it doesn't matter to the operation of either vehicle.

Next year could really be Ep... er I mean amazing

Complete uneducated guess here but I would imagine that that chair was just in the exact wrong place at the exact wrong time and some sort of resonance got involved and swung it all the way up due to a hard stop or a drive surge or a combination of the two. I'm sure the sudden force and the fact that it swung so high was just too much for the parts that clamp the chair onto the cable, they are designed to release after all so they aren't exactly welded on there, and the chair just came off. Resonance is a hell of thing and if that chair was a few feet up or a few feet back we might not be talking about this today.

I was considering the halfway house, not the group home. Thanks for the info though

Epic seems great but their offerings in Utah are kind of lacking

Back in the day at Montage they had huge orange banners up on poles that stretched the whole width of the trail, probably 20 feet in the air that said something along the lines of "Expert terrain only beyond this point" to try and turn people before they went down lower runaway and lower fast track. It would take a herculean effort to cut a blue trail down to the bottom of Montage, the mountain just naturally takes a nosedive down there and there are some major rock formations and cliffs off to the far skiers right that would make it very tough to add a mellow trail out there. I love Montage but at the end of the day it's 4 little mountains all tied together since each lift skis like its own little pod. Welcome @abe!

This hotel at Montage would be 100% sold out for all concerts at the mountain and they could probably charge a ton for those nights. Since there's no public transportation up there it can be assumed that any hotel guest would need a car which would not really make an expensive slopeside place a lot more appealing than a much cheaper option 5 minutes away.

I could aVAIL myself to this if it is true, especially if there is a student discount offered as well.

They have at least a 18 months to two years in design time ahead of them on this project. Don't expect to be sitting in a rooftop hot tub at Montage any time soon.

If you use that guy standing under the lift as a rough guide and assume he's around 6 feet tall, that chair would have fallen around 35 feet.

If that rendering is any indication they are about 74 years from this actually becoming a reality.