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Today me and jake arrived at Eldora around 2:45 hoping to just session the park for a few runs and then head back down to boulder. Both lifts at the park were closed and they seem to have gotten rid of their pipe. Jake bums a ticket and shows it to the lifty, the lifty freaks, calls ski patrol who then proceeds to almost knock jake over stepping on the back of his bindings and taking his skis to the ski patrol shed so we can't leave and taking down my liscense plate number. We offer to just buy two half day tickets and like 4 eldora dudes split us up and force me to pay 106 dollars for 2 FULL day lift tickets and still wont let us even ski or leave. Then they get the manager and he wants us to pay for two full day adult passes each (a total of $212) and still not let us ski but instead make us head back down to Boulder. He black mails us saying unless we pay it he will call the cops. I requested to see their policy sheet which they kept claiming said that you have to buy 2 full day passes and then you have to leave if you try to get on a lift without paying. No where on there did it say anything about that at all, infact they had only broken a few of their own rules that I read through. So they call the cops up and we nearly get arrested by a bullshit ass officer and he took down all of our information plus school name and everything. I ended up paying 53 dollars (adult full day) for standing at the base of eldora watching jacob ask the lifty if we could catch a ride up the lift cuz it was the end of the day (close to 3:00) with a bumed ticket and I never even bumed a ticket or even asked the lifty for a ride up, yet they said I was trespassing for standing in their parking lot like everyone else does before they buy their tickets. They claimed that my intention was to go up the lift without paying which it was but I was just gonna ask the dude without buming to see if he would be chil and if not go buy a half day. They said that that was proof enough so me and Jake each payed 53 bucks and wasted like 3 hours of our lives driving and arguing and never even got to ski at all just because one person tried to use a ticket which someone willfully gave to him at the end of his day of skiing. Plus their weren't many people there so no one would have had to wait in line any longer because of us or anything, jake was just replacing someone who had bought a full day ticket. The whole situation was just so impractical and bogus and the people that worked at Eldora were ALL fucking twats, everysingle one of them was a dick that could not be reasoned with or spoken to logically. And so was the cop who would't even listen to us and just heard false shit from the ski patrol who were practically physically keeping us there when he arrived. FUCK THAT MOUNTAIN I AM NEVER GOING BACK. Except maybe to do some shit to it or the employees that we dealt with today. And I want my 50 bucks back without having to deal with court or anythign because I did not breach any laws. There's no way they can prove that I wasn't just heading up to buy a ticket and even so, I was just gonna ask the dude if it would be chil to ride up without a ticket without trying to bum or anything which they said would have been illegal (which it shouldn't be just to ask) and based there charge on that assumption and the cop said that was fine. So fuck the police and fuck eldora mountain. Josh you should deffinately buy that place cuz it is a chil ass mountain and has terrain park potential plus a few steeps out by westridge and is super close. The management is just so gay i now know why like half my friends refuse to ski there. We weren't trying to be that sneaky or anything we just dind't wanna pay 42 bucks for 2 runs so we thought the dudes might be chil and understand. We have both bought passes in the past and stuff it was just this time. If Eldora were run well that could be one sick ass place.
I'll try and talk to someone there for you to see if I can clear it up. I'm doubtful I can get much though, they haven't been too easy for me to work with. They really just don't care about freeskiing.
yeah I know it was illegal of them but taking it to court is just a waste of more time and money. plus I don't want to get our school involved because it happened during our free period.
Fuck Elshitra. Such a shitty ass park not even worth the 30 minute drive up. That sucks tho. The couple of time's I've been up there they havn't been checking passes at the lift over to the left of the park looking up at the mountain. Its doesn't go all the way up but nothing up there anyways.
the only lifts open at the bottom were the bunny hill and cannon ball, niether of the two lifts by the park were running. they said they are starting to check passes now because of "punk kids like us who come up from boulder and ski for free" hahah.
Fucking Assholes! I hope thier fucking hippe ass houses in Ned burn the fuck down and when i see thier tall lanky ass homeless under a fucking bridge in boulder i will fucking set them on fire and piss in thier charred eye sockets
we talked to the guy at echo, its supposed to be feb. 1st, thats not gonna happen, but maybe 2 - 3 weeks from then. but its almost an hour drive to echo
haha, punk kids eh? They should be honored that we actually ventured up to there shitty ass park. Word to those who havn't been up there.... those jumps are A LOT smaller than you think they are. I learned the hard way.
So you are pissed because you tried to cheat the system and got caught? That is ridiculous!! You know what you did was wrong, and regardless of how they handled the situation (it sounds like they handled it pretty poorly), you have to "Man-Up" and take responsibility. None of this would have happened if you had not tried to cheat the system. I know that is not what you want to hear, but the reality is that ALL of this started with your decision.
^ He's got a point, but seeing both sides of the story, I'm still more inclined to relate to you. El Dora sucks for pulling that shit on you, then again, they can say the same thing about you guys. Whatever. lesson learned... never go to El Dora
I am from Boulder and I have had a similar run in as a highschooler, you should always bail, even if you steal shit or do someting illegal, if they chase and stop/physical attack you, they are done. Buddy of mine pretty much had to jack a Yellowstone ranger, people like this (patrol, admin, rangers) cannot do a damn thing. Eldora is pretty sad place these days.