Best Comment in a Ski Area Review
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JohnL
November 10, 2003
Member since 01/6/2000 🔗
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Came across this one on the Net; names deleted to protect the innocent and the not so innocent.

<quote>After a big storm, say two feet or more, the wind blows all the snow off of neighboring ***** Mountain directly to *****'s more deserving terrain and more deserving skiers.</quote>

Wish the reviewer was a bit more candid!

JimK - DCSki Columnist
November 11, 2003
Member since 01/14/2004 🔗
2,996 posts
Give us a few hints and see if we can guess. How about Smuggs to Stowe? Snowbird to Alta? Park City to The Canyons?
JohnL
November 11, 2003
Member since 01/6/2000 🔗
3,563 posts
Smugg's to Stowe (vice-versa from the author's viewpoint) is a good guess.

Give you three hints.
1) Same state as Smugg's to Stowe.
2) K-Mart is not involved.
3) *Less-deserving* mountain has created some controversial special-privilege (and very expensive) programs / organizations.

lbotta - DCSki Supporter 
November 13, 2003
Member since 10/18/1999 🔗
1,535 posts
Let's see:

1. Same as Smuggs and Stowe: Vermont
2. K-Mart not involved: Near Bennington (they had the common sense to tell the slave-labor company to buzz off)
3. Special Privileges: Stratton? Intrawest introduced the Deer Valley-like clubs where you plunk down 25K and get head-of-the-line privileges in this most-expensive-lift-ticket-in-the-USA resort.


Would it be Stratton to Bromley?

JohnL
November 13, 2003
Member since 01/6/2000 🔗
3,563 posts
Right-O on Stratton, but not on Bromley...

Actually the K-Mart hint was to eliminate a possible Killington (aka K-Mart) to Pico guess. Wouldn't surprise me that most Vermont towns would try to oppose K-Mart and Wal-Mart.

Norsk
November 13, 2003
Member since 05/13/2003 🔗
317 posts
Stratton to Magic Mtn? Magic would fit on terrain and old-school VT skiers, but its somewhat obscure.

Still the alternatives would be Mt Snow and Okemo, and both are implausible both geographically and as to terrain.

JohnL
November 13, 2003
Member since 01/6/2000 🔗
3,563 posts
Stratton to Magic - bingo!

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