New Lift for Blue?

[toast21602]

1 hour ago, JFskiDan said:

They painted the little building by the lift.  looks spectacular.  

Stunning. 

[AtomicSkier]

11 hours ago, Benm said:

@enjoralas tbh i have no idea what i'm talking about lol. it looked like the thick direct burial electrical wire. i didn't realize telecom could be so fat. 

I've seen 1800 pair cable.  Shit is thiccc.  

[JFskiDan]

1 hour ago, toast21602 said:

Stunning. 

Stunning will be when it has some my little pony stuff on it. 

[JFskiDan]

Some big news this week?  Oh man, i cant wait.  

i did find this comment interesting though.  

Not that it pertains to us, but i was really looking forward to the shit show that will ensue with paid parking.  

[toast21602]

I think the excitement that a business gets from "big news" is going to be a lot different than the excitement that a bunch of grungy parking lot rats gets from "big news"

[Benm]

i'm like 99% certain they will be rebranding.

not the name or anything, just color palette maybe logo.

i just went to the actual FB post instead of looking at Dan's clip.

yup

Edited October 4, 2022 by Benm

[NMSKI]

I'm hoping the news is the announcement of a silly mascot.  

[JFskiDan]

9 minutes ago, Benm said:

i'm like 99% certain they will be rebranding.

not the name or anything, just color palette maybe logo.

i just went to the actual FB post instead of looking at Dan's clip.

yup

This is most likely it.  I forgot to use my sarcastic font, but i wasnt expecting anything earth shattering.  

[Larchmont]

I can imagine paid parking once they repave some of the Valley lot or, especially, if they expand the Valley lodge footprint even more and lose spaces in the convenient lots. There's corporate involved, you don't get something for nothing.

[saltyant]

35 minutes ago, Larchmont said:

I can imagine paid parking once they repave some of the Valley lot or, especially, if they expand the Valley lodge footprint even more and lose spaces in the convenient lots. There's corporate involved, you don't get something for nothing.

If they do paid parking I'm never skiing at Blue Mountain again!

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

1 hour ago, Larchmont said:

I can imagine paid parking once they repave some of the Valley lot or, especially, if they expand the Valley lodge footprint even more and lose spaces in the convenient lots. There's corporate involved, you don't get something for nothing.

They have the huge overflow lot in the back they rarely use and across the street. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

43 minutes ago, saltyant said:

If they do paid parking I'm never skiing at Blue Mountain again!

Salty, you can carpool with PARidge

[Larchmont]

48 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

They have the huge overflow lot in the back they rarely use and across the street. 

Yep, they're not often going to turn people away, paid parking or no. There's even the fields behind Tubing - those have been used on occasion. But fencing off one lot of paid premium parking right next to a brand new shiny six pack or a brand new hotel lodge (but they're reserved for our overnight guests!) feels exactly like what Camelback started their paid parking with.

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

25 minutes ago, Larchmont said:

Yep, they're not often going to turn people away, paid parking or no. There's even the fields behind Tubing - those have been used on occasion. But fencing off one lot of paid premium parking right next to a brand new shiny six pack or a brand new hotel lodge (but they're reserved for our overnight guests!) feels exactly like what Camelback started their paid parking with.

Where do you think the hotel lodge will go?  I’m still waiting to buy my condo at the Vista lodge.  

[saltyant]

1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Salty, you can carpool with PARidge

Great idea, we bonded when PARidge drove my Sonic around the parking lot on Gaper Day.

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Just now, saltyant said:

Great idea, we bonded when PARidge drove my Sonic around the parking lot on Gaper Day.

I remember that, you two have a lot in common…you both breath oxygen and both ski.  Also both coffee drinkers. 

[saltyant]

2 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

I remember that, you two have a lot in common…you both breath oxygen and both ski.  Also both coffee drinkers. 

Maybe this Gaper day PA Ridge will let me drive his Ridgemobile around the freshly paved lower parking lot of Blue Mountain and make lots of donuts and burnout rubber marks.

Edited October 4, 2022 by saltyant

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

There’s an 8 minute long Blue mountain infomercial on blues FB page from 1987 when it was called Little Gap.  It’s rad…my first day skiing Blue was January 4th 1991

[Larchmont]

There are a bunch of operational and logistical and political reasons to build the big lodge in the valley, and there's just about only two reasons to build it at the summit - the view, and Slopeside.

Now, if Blue gets froggy about more on-prem lodging, I could absolutely imagine a tiny home "community" or a much smaller lodging facility springing up in the "water park" area where the old summit entrance was.

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

32 minutes ago, Larchmont said:

There are a bunch of operational and logistical and political reasons to build the big lodge in the valley, and there's just about only two reasons to build it at the summit - the view, and Slopeside.

Now, if Blue gets froggy about more on-prem lodging, I could absolutely imagine a tiny home "community" or a much smaller lodging facility springing up in the "water park" area where the old summit entrance was.

They need ski in ski out lodging. That’s not gonna be the case in the water park area.  Maybe they should build a water park in the water park area. 

[Benm]

branding is updated

[Benm]

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Just now, Benm said:

branding is updated

Thanks can you provide an example and are you impressed by their new branding?

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

As for example sorry didn’t see your second post. 

[enjoralas]

3 minutes ago, Benm said:

Looks really familiar