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This. I demoed the Mantras. I found that they carved and ripped the groomers better than skiing pow and trees. Very heavy, damp, and stiff ski. I am glad I demoed it when I was considering buying it; I would have been sorry had I purchased them. I am having a hard time coming up with any...

Not only is the current weather pattern looking poor for Thanksgiving skiing, I would advise caution for any skier looking for any beginner terrain in November. Most ski areas just try to get open for Thanksgiving and ski areas don't usually open with much if any beginner terrain. They will try...

For what it is worth, I have the Garmont Radium and at 205lbs they are fine. I prefer the beef of my alpine boot but am willing to sacrifice some beef for tourability. Significantly less sacrifice on the down compared to the G-Ride. I ski pretty hard, too. I think Garmont's beefier end (which...

I am not sure there is too much negativeness. Honestly, I am surprised there has not been more negative mud slinging. And only one commie reference is absolutely impressive given the slant of the FTO forum crowd, bravo for a mostly civil discussion I say! =D> The majority of posts seem to be...

Wowzers, thanks for the beta. Looks like there will still be plenty there for this coming weekend. Color me "stoked" for this weekend if Chin Clip is still 50% in.

Perhaps instead of looking at the resort model as dead, perhaps the question should be is it evolving/changing and into what? What are the big resorts doing in Vermont right now? Building huge honking hotels and timeshares slopeside. Not in the traditional condo sprawl but huge honking slopeside...

That is not what you wrote above.... Local vacation home owners are NOT the same as remote die hard skiers driving up from out of state. Of course the local skier is going to protect their investment and of course they are the one's buying shares. I just want to see some data backing up your...

Ah, thanks for the quick correction! I saw that name kicked around a few times in the thread and made an erroneous conclusion, my bad!

The MRG Coop is 15 years old now and hardly an indication of current trends. This is not a trend any ways. There is a saturation point on people willing to invest in unique niche ski operations. Magic is still trying to hit their minimum number of shares needed. How many ski areas are unique...

I will vouch for the summit measurement though I think an average of 12" is more realistic for the overall upper mountain area. If they got 6" at the base, it melted by the time I got there. About 0-3" of wet snow at the base on the grass though it increased to a solid 6" after not too much...

Appreciate the update!

C'mon Geoff, live a little. I bet I will be having more excitement tomorrow than whatever you'll be doing. :-({|= \:D/

Any one have any stats regarding how much carbon the resort puts out compared to how much carbon its visitors put out to go skiing? The biggest issue obviously here is travel (car, plane, or both) but I suppose you could go so far as to look at all the gear each patron has bought (which incurred...

Some business practices from MRA: Most of this stuff requires more expenses on the resort end of things. Also, some of these goals reduce revenues. I don't see MRA working from the financial perspective. This is way too idealistic and not multi-dimensional enough. If they want to do a Coop...

But this is not a ski model. This is a captive vacation audience staying on mountain with something to do when they are NOT skiing. And it is four season in giving folks a reason to visit Jay when they are not there for skiing. This is a resort model but it is a resort model based on captive...

Doesn't the very nature of a fire sale (i.e. market correcting for overly inflated prices) make it more easily to sustainably operate profitably? That should reduce the debt load on the incoming ownership compared to the past ownership. One would think that hopefully the market corrected the...

I am far from a Killington authority so take my thoughts for what they are worth. Last season, Superstar held snow better than Canyon. Which probably means they blew the piss out of Superstar and not as much on Canyon. But the point is that give Killington closed with Superstar fully covered...

The catwalk does not eliminate the need for extra snow making because they need to make snow up there any ways to get the K1 and top to bottom going. K would open top to bottom if they could, temps dictate otherwise so this gives them the upload option from the K1 with a ski down to the North...

Looks enticing. Not a huge Loaf fan but I could see that disposition changing significantly. That is certainly my type of setup with 2 (or 3 depending how far you go) lifts to cycle and lots of elbow room and lots of lines to dig through. Don't see a clean line, just traverse. The Cat idea is...

Not to say that is small, but I am surprised it is not bigger.