So ummmmm anyone else notice something on Saturday???
I have no problems with lifts being closed for windhold/safety reasons. That's out of the mountains control, but what was up with North Lynx and Valley House? A dozen or so yellow jackets up in the top with wrenches flying seems less like wind issues. Why do we have so many maintenance issues with the lifts? Instead of dropping coin on a cat to bring people up for dinners, adding more lodging, anti-PITA day care, etc how about spending some time/money on the lifts. I'm certain that's an unfair statement and money and time is being spent, but what is the dollar amount associated with getting them running a couple weekends in a row without issues and where's the hat being passed around to support it. I say put all other planning on hold and get the lifts running consistently. The lines this weekend were crazy and only exasperated by the fact that lifts were down for mechanical issues.
As an attempt to deter the normal posted comments that would follow a post like this:
- No the lifts were not down for just 5 minutes and yes it did effect the overall wait times. Especially when you hear rumors/statements that lifts are back up, you run over to them to ride up and they're down again.
- On a normally crowded day my lift management plan is to head over to North however I definitely wasn't expecting such a big crowd with Prez weekend next weekend so I started at South and when I wanted to get over to North the SBX was down (surprise) and the North Lynx was down so I couldn't scoot through the trees to get there. No way I was standing on the bus to get over. My friend did de-boot and drive over and said the lines were better, but come on. If all the lifts that could have been running given conditions were running then silly work arounds like that wouldn't be necessary.
- To be honest I'm starting to doubt some Wind Holds. Sure Saturday was windy and I believe everything was on wind hold legit, but I've seen North Ridge go on "Wind hold" and saw people toting parts down on a snow mobile from it. It's creating a Boy Who Cried Wolf effect for me.
There. It's been said. Sorry, but it's what was on my mind and many others. To take a hockey term I'd say this Saturday was Bush League. Apologists have at me.
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