Originally Posted by
Tin Woodsman
Good question. The answer I heard from three different people/CB owners was that VH char failed inspection and is down for the remainder of the year. If this is true, it will be good to know whether they can reasonably expect to re-open it in future years until replaced but, either way, it's an unacceptable outcome. Sure could have come in handy Sunday morning when everything but GH and CR was on windhold to start off. Even after Bravo started up, the lines were nuts until after lunch. How does the mtn let this happen, especially in light of the inspection/software issues delaying things in December?
The other rookie move was the decision to close off all or most of BOTH Lower Snowball/Racers Edge and Spring Fling to the skiing public in favor of gates/racers. Those are without question the two most popular trails on that side of the hill and the only legitimate intermediate options to the skiers right of Murphy's Glade. How on Earth does the mountain make the decision to close these runs mostly or entirely on a busy March weekend? There really isn't much of an excuse for this. If the answer is "commitments to the racing programs", then you've got too many commitments - it's that simple. This sort of thing can work mid-week. Not on busy March weekends when you've received 3 feet of snow since Tuesday. I can't believe that a decision this poor and this antithetical to the skiing experience of the target demographic was made.
And then there were the gates set up on the bottom pitch below VH lodge for the kids. It was fun for them I'm sure, especially with Egan on the play by play, but with the lines for Bravo absolutely nuts, it didn't make sense - there was no room there at all. Of course, had the VH double been running, perhaps there would have been more room.....
I'm a big fan of Summit Ventures and what they are doing for the mountain, the valley and everything in between. But these issues are real disappointments relative to the standards they surely aspire to and, more importantly, to what SB customers should expect. It's not good enough to be in the lift maze directing traffic. It's just not.
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