I joined there in 2002 and was an active member for a couple years before discovering FTO, at which time I bailed.

jamesdeluxe wrote:I joined there in 2002 and was an active member for a couple years before discovering FTO, at which time I bailed.
jamesdeluxe wrote: BobMc: the first person I ever skied with via an internet connection/EpicSki: April 2002. As you can see, I regret it to this day.
jamesdeluxe wrote:As was noted at the time, VR wanted the Epicski name and had always planned on killing it.
The EpicSki forum will no longer be available after April 28, 2017, due to our current hosting provider discontinuing its forum services. We appreciate and thank all of the forum members, moderators and site managers for your years of dedication and contribution to the conversation and community. Those EpicSki members who would like to retain their photo albums, unofficial guides, and all other content should download that to their personal storage device by no later than noon MDT on Thursday, April 27, 2017.
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The Mountain News Team wrote:We have worked out an agreement with our forum hosting provider to extend the closing of the EpicSki forum for an additional two weeks, until May 12, 2017.
We listened and heard you loud and clear that many would like to move the content to another provider. Unfortunately, there are a number of operational, legal and other considerations that make selling or giving the archive to someone else very difficult. The two-week extension is intended to give you more time to download your content before the forum closes.
Those EpicSki members who would like to retain their photo albums, unofficial guides, and all other user content should download those items to their personal storage device by no later than 11:00 am MDT on Friday, May 12, 2017. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
We know this news came as a surprise and we empathize with those who feel we didn’t provide ample warning to users to download their content. We appreciate our forum hosting provider for working with us to extend the site closing date for an additional two weeks to give users more time to make arrangements.
Your passionate, thoughtful posts, guides and photos have been inspirational to the community. We will miss the conversation and appreciate your participation and input on EpicSki.com over the years.
Current EpicSki Admin wrote:The downside to the stay of execution is it seems execution is indeed inevitable. They've told me that they've explored several options and received offers and really tried to find something, but there are legal hurdles that are insurmountable, so May 12th will be the last day for EpicSki as it is. However hopefully the efforts to make an archive are able to benefit from this reprieve. I think it would be best for whoever considers it to consult a lawyer. Each user theoretically owns their content, so I'm not really sure the implications.
Patrick wrote:You know what I think about this. So much information risks disappearing.
Marc_C wrote:This set of search results might be of some use, but I suspect that a discussion forum would exceed the capabilities of most if not all of the free solutions (or make the effort intractable):
https://www.google.com/search?q=website+scraping+software&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
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