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NBensonVail resorts sucks. I live in Colorado and thankfully some mountains avoid vail resorts and A Basin made the right move to drop the epic pass. Vail and epic piss me off. Make skiing great again and ban vail
Chubz.Seeing as Big Boulder is Jack Frost's sister resort i wouldn't expect vail to change anything with big boulder. The entire mountain is a terrain park for a reason. If you're going to travel to the poconos to ski park, big boulder is the destination and has one of the top elite parks on the east coast. They do large park shoots with Snowboy & Ski The East every single year and unless they fire Pat Morgan in the next couple months which i really do not see happening the parks at big boulder will not change.
It's called the content factory for a reason, a ton of their marketing is park oriented.
hootsquadI saw the news about big boulder this morning. Really hoping it doesn't effect much with management because the park crew does an amazing job building a fun park and scene in general
NBensonVail resorts sucks. I live in Colorado and thankfully some mountains avoid vail resorts and A Basin made the right move to drop the epic pass. Vail and epic piss me off. Make skiing great again and ban vail
theabortionatorWill probably suck as far as $$$. The drifter pass was a killer deal for peak. I wish they had had that or mt snows $300 ish for anyone under ___ (that was offered before) a few years earlier. Used to ride mt snow a ton. Never made it to BB woulda def if I had a peak pass.
As far as the parks I think it will be okay, at least I hope so. That was my thoughts with BB and Mt Snow being east coast park powerhouses. Hoping they stay legit. Vail still lets keystone get pretty rowdy and Northstar and PC have a decent amount of park funding.
It's cool being 12 I guess. The worst part of the Vail Resorts in CO isn't vail, but their proximity to Denver. This recent purchase is a little tough, but most of the vail haters don't have shit for a good argument.
With the big corporate mtns in CO is wouldn't make a big difference whether Vail owned them or not. People just love to jump on the VR hate bandwagon.
StaticIt's not people getting on the hate bandwagon, it's people seeing actual changes after the acquisitions. Bunches of resorts have been bought up by now and there is a laundry list of transgressions at each one.
**This post was edited on Jul 24th 2019 at 4:54:05am
Chubz.Seeing as Big Boulder is Jack Frost's sister resort i wouldn't expect vail to change anything with big boulder. The entire mountain is a terrain park for a reason. If you're going to travel to the poconos to ski park, big boulder is the destination and has one of the top elite parks on the east coast. They do large park shoots with Snowboy & Ski The East every single year and unless they fire Pat Morgan in the next couple months which i really do not see happening the parks at big boulder will not change.
It's called the content factory for a reason, a ton of their marketing is park oriented.
KilaTsunami"Big Boulder"
"Top Elite Park"
L.M.A.O
Chubz.Lol.....
compared to anything else on the east coast the only place with a better park is mt snow & maybe Killington..
KilaTsunamiIm only clowning on ur phrasing bcs im at BB legit every weekend and its just so ratchet sometimes lol
Chubz.🤷🏻♂️ Went there once in March and it was pretty good considering the conditions
StaticThey have made negative changes at literally every level. Parking, grooming, lift maintenance, lift ticket prices, age threshold for lift tickets, snow reporting manipulation, changes to the pow cam, removed of shots on mountain, grooming, HR, employee benefits, employee rules, ticket prices, reduced seasons, terrain opening, capital improvements.... Seems like willful ignorance to not notice any of that shit.
Chubz.Seeing as Big Boulder is Jack Frost's sister resort i wouldn't expect vail to change anything with big boulder. The entire mountain is a terrain park for a reason. If you're going to travel to the poconos to ski park, big boulder is the destination and has one of the top elite parks on the east coast. They do large park shoots with Snowboy & Ski The East every single year and unless they fire Pat Morgan in the next couple months which i really do not see happening the parks at big boulder will not change.
It's called the content factory for a reason, a ton of their marketing is park oriented.
StaticThey have made negative changes at literally every level. Parking, grooming, lift maintenance, lift ticket prices, age threshold for lift tickets, snow reporting manipulation, changes to the pow cam, removed of shots on mountain, grooming, HR, employee benefits, employee rules, ticket prices, reduced seasons, terrain opening, capital improvements.... Seems like willful ignorance to not notice any of that shit.
SkiBum.Vail fired Park Cities park Manager about 5 months in. Then hired a cheaper replacement. Then downsized parks.
theabortionatorThe mtn vibe/character/c harm whatever you want to call it takes a hit. They've improved grooming, so not sure where you're going with that. I never worked lift maintenance but they're far more likely to install some new lifts than a lot of the mountains they buy. Snow report manipulation? Not sure specifically what you're talking about, but a giant amount of resorts including some of the smallest ones are full of shit on their snow reports. Same as it ever was'd. They've been doing some whack shit with HR recently which isn't very chill. Employee benefits are pretty shot across the ski industry. I don't get comps any more. I did get a $525 pair of Scarpas for $100, a free or dirt cheap pair of $170 steel toes. And got some pretty solid deals on some touring gear. 40%-45% off. Missed out on getting it even cheaper.
The housing situation sucks and has been ignored places, but a lot of mountains are doing the same or don't offer employee housing.
Day tickets will likely go up, they didn't spike too ridiculously at the smaller mountains but it still sucks in terms of getting new people into the sport. The passes at a lot of those mountains stayed the same or got cheaper.
Most mountains close early because people don't give a fuck about skiing. Vails been decent about early openings, and Breck was still riding into mid June.
Are there negatives to Vail? Of course, but people will never talk about any of the positives. I'm not even stoked on this deal, but flipping through these threads and facebook it was more of the "Everything everywhere was perfect before Vail, and every small ski area is run amazing" and that simply isn't true. Call be ignorant, whatever.
SkiBum.I personally don’t go to their resorts and my 2-5 vacations a year are not Vail ones and I give my money elsewhere. But you just pointed out a bunch of bullshit
KilaTsunamiNah its true, Big Boulder is a DOPE place to go shred on the weekend and its very easy to forget all the bad during the off season, but there is a massive list of shit WRONG with places like Big Boulder that money would fix easily like there slow motion lift service lol
StaticThe overwhelming majority of local resident skiers ("SkiBum.s" if you're familiar with the term) think a Vail take over is bullshit and would happily have the shitty old owners back. Since you admittedly don't ski live or work at any of their resorts you might want to consider how well informed your opinion actually is.
