Weather

[Shirley]

Dang.

Blizzard conditions here over the weekend. Roads were awful, then got worse after the crazy winds turned all the plowed surfaces to ice. Lots of cars in the ditch. The highway through most of the county was closed.

You've got legal pot, so stop complaining.

[ousdahl]

Didn’t Michigan also go recreational yesterday?

[Shirley]

Didn’t Michigan also go recreational yesterday?

That might explain Michhawk's posting today, but not retroactively.

[Deleted User 89]

60” up at Alta

[Shirley]

60” up at Alta

Wow, Alta. I first skied Alta back in the late 80s. I'd fly out and stay with my sister for free, take the bus up Little or Big Cottonwood Canyon for $1.00, ski all day and be home just as my sister and her husband were getting home for work. At Alta during the week, there we no lines. You'd ski down and get on the lift without waiting for a second, ride it up the mountain, and do it again. The amount of time on the slope, as opposed to standing in the lift lines, was out of this world. And a lift ticket on weekdays was only $10, $12 on the weekend. What great memories!

[ousdahl]

$10 lift tickets, holy moly!

nowadays a day pass at Alta will run you $125. Vail is over $200...

[Deleted User 89]

and alta is the cheapest of the 4 up in the cottonwood canyons (i think)

you get raped by park city lift ticket prices

[Shirley]

and alta is the cheapest of the 4 up in the cottonwood canyons (i think)

you get raped by park city lift ticket prices

Yeah, but when you end up sharing a lift with Jim Nance and his wife at Deer Valley and he notices your KU attire then recounts calling the '88 National Championship game at Kemper Arena in great detail, it's almost worth the price of admission.

#almost

[ousdahl]

regarding lift ticket prices, how did it grow so exponentially?

Is there anything else that costs 10+ times as much today as it did 30 years ago?

and I know that resorts have upped the amenities, such as faster chair lifts and more slopeside bloody mary bars and stuff, but as a whole is the ski experience really 10 times what it was 30 years ago?

[ousdahl]

oh, and if you wanted to do something as financially reckless as park your car at the resort while you ski, then you might as well go park at Arrowhead Stadium.

[NewtonHawk11]

Is there anything else that costs 10+ times as much today as it did 30 years ago?

I mean college education, healthcare and many other things, but that's for a different bored.

[defixione]

I skied Heavenly Valley in the late 70s and early 80s. Lift tickets were $7.50.

[TDub]

regarding lift ticket prices, how did it grow so exponentially?

Is there anything else that costs 10+ times as much today as it did 30 years ago?

and I know that resorts have upped the amenities, such as faster chair lifts and more slopeside bloody mary bars and stuff, but as a whole is the ski experience really 10 times what it was 30 years ago?

Imagine if everyone there was making $15/hr. Lift tickets would go up another 50%

[Deleted User 62]

regarding lift ticket prices, how did it grow so exponentially?

Is there anything else that costs 10+ times as much today as it did 30 years ago?

and I know that resorts have upped the amenities, such as faster chair lifts and more slopeside bloody mary bars and stuff, but as a whole is the ski experience really 10 times what it was 30 years ago?

Imagine if everyone there was making $15/hr. Lift tickets would go up another 50%

Yeah, the slopes are already pretty loaded up with folks rolling in dough at $600.00 income per week.

[TDub]

Huh? I'm saying lift ticket prices would increase even more. Not saying more people would be "loading up the slopes"

[MICHHAWK]

Skiing ain’t cheap. But it sure is fun.

High prices keep the riff raff off the slopes.

[ousdahl]

high prices don't keep the riff raff off the slopes, it just means the riff raff is drunk off better booze.

[jhawks99]

Wind and rain....

[ousdahl]

So how is it in your neckada woods? Didn’t kc get dumped on?

The resort here reported 31 inches. Praise Ullr!

But now it’s cold. Like negative double digits cold. Just dumb cold.

[Deleted User 89]

we didn’t get shit in SLC...other than some flurries

supposed to snow early next week, but clear and cold til then. though, nowhere near as cold as you’ve got it