11-20-2015, 06:32 PM
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#101
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Louise is a great resort overall that just doesn't get enough snow usually to realize its full potential. It has purple bowl and wolverine and hidden bowl as well. The extra road time is offset by the gondola up, as mentioned.
SSV is poorly laid out overall, and while the slackcountry is good in some areas it has the same snow shortage and thus the general resort's shortcomings show through more. Gondola only ticket is a good point, but I wasn't aware that it got you a single lift ride as well?
Plus, the Scurfields have made some, to put it kindly, questionable decisions in recent years.
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11-20-2015, 07:43 PM
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#102
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I wasn't aware that it got you a single lift ride as well?
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Yeah, IIRC it's $40 and you get a gondola ride and a ride up Wawa.
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11-21-2015, 04:07 AM
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#103
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Forgot to post this. If anyone was out for the opening weekend at Louise, Hep A warning:
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Officials are advising that anyone who dined at the Powderkeg Lounge and consumed hot food and drinks from November 6 to November 8, 2015, may have been exposed to hepatitis A through an infected worker at the establishment.
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http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/hepatitis-...sort-1.2666059
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11-21-2015, 10:45 AM
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#104
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Ummmmmmmmmm... yeah. That's not ideal
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11-21-2015, 11:50 AM
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#105
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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A bit off-side, but are there any mountains that have a more extreme or twisty tube run? I have been to Nakiska and saw the ones at Big White and Whistler and they are just straight down runs on bunny hills. Are there any in the country that are the kind of thing you could spend the whole day at and not get bored? Looking for something this winter for a diversion from skiing.
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11-21-2015, 12:20 PM
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#106
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Ski Magazine ranks Sunshine and Lake Louise 12 and 19 in Western North America.
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11-22-2015, 12:21 PM
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#107
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In the Sin Bin
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The new teepee chair is awesome. Heated seats aren't necessary but the cover from the wind and the seat not having a hole under the backrest (the backrest and bench are connected) is a massive difference.
I know people like to complain about resorts doing gimmicks like this and charging more for lift tickets cause of it but this is not one of those times. I really hope that this starts becoming a norm for all chairs that are exposed to high winds.
The difference is night and day.
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11-22-2015, 01:07 PM
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#108
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Maybe one day Louise will replace Paradise with something. Anything really.
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11-22-2015, 01:10 PM
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#109
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In the Sin Bin
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I can't imagine it'd be overly expensive to add those wind covers to the existing chairs.
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11-22-2015, 03:15 PM
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#110
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Yes, it's extremely expensive, and the money is better spent improving the skiing (by opening up new terrain, for the most part).
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11-22-2015, 03:33 PM
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#111
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Yes, it's extremely expensive, and the money is better spent improving the skiing (by opening up new terrain, for the most part).
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It's really really not. Covering windy chairs will probably improve your skiing experience more than what little terrain I'm assuming you could add using the equivalent amount of money.
I don't know if you're trying to be a skiing purist or something but it makes such a tremendous difference on windy chairs.
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11-22-2015, 06:22 PM
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#112
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First, I do actually think you're being a pansy, sure...  I don't care about covered chairs. But second, the cost of doing what SSV did there is enormous.
I can think of ten ways that money could be better spent for anyone but a casual tourist customer.
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11-22-2015, 06:48 PM
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#113
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Originally Posted by polak
It's really really not. Covering windy chairs will probably improve your skiing experience more than what little terrain I'm assuming you could add using the equivalent amount of money.
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If heated seats improves your skiing experience more than actually skiing, I question how much you enjoy the actual sport.
14 years ago Pano expanded and opened up it's former RK heli skiing terrain. That IMO was the single best thing that hill (or any hill around here) has done, made the hill a million times better, and opened up a ton of powder stashes.
I will take more terrain 10 times out of 10 over fluffily little gimmicks like heated seats. But I've also had some of my best ski days at resorts that don't have a lodge, and spent lunch with sandwiches and beer in the parking lot.
I'm quite content with the move though, maybe it'll keep the gorbys at Sunshine and away from the other hills. But if any chair needed a wind blocker, it was Divide.
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11-22-2015, 09:56 PM
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#115
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by kunkstyle
If heated seats improves your skiing experience more than actually skiing, I question how much you enjoy the actual sport.
14 years ago Pano expanded and opened up it's former RK heli skiing terrain. That IMO was the single best thing that hill (or any hill around here) has done, made the hill a million times better, and opened up a ton of powder stashes.
I will take more terrain 10 times out of 10 over fluffily little gimmicks like heated seats. But I've also had some of my best ski days at resorts that don't have a lodge, and spent lunch with sandwiches and beer in the parking lot.
I'm quite content with the move though, maybe it'll keep the gorbys at Sunshine and away from the other hills. But if any chair needed a wind blocker, it was Divide. |
First thing I said was that the heated seats are unnecessary. I like the wind sheild. I'm assuming the cost to install windshields on 2 or 3 of the windy chairs is less than an expansion like that.
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11-23-2015, 11:42 AM
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#116
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by kunkstyle
But if any chair needed a wind blocker, it was Divide.
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Case to be made for Tamarack chair at Castle? But no, I'd rather it's so uncomfortable that no one wants to ride it but me...
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11-23-2015, 05:56 PM
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#117
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Case to be made for Tamarack chair at Castle? But no, I'd rather it's so uncomfortable that no one wants to ride it but me...
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Haha I was keeping it to chairs at Sunshine, but yeah, that one's breezy. For the few days the wind is calm enough to even open the chair!
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11-24-2015, 09:22 AM
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#118
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Franchise Player
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I love that Tamarack chair. Being at the top of that lift is pretty intimidating, especially when it's windy. The Tamarack being so ghetto just ads to the experience!
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11-24-2015, 11:07 AM
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#119
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Winchestertonfieldville Jail
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I think it's paradise lift? at lake louise back side, now that is a freaky ass chair, so high up and windy as hell, and just an overall POS lift
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11-24-2015, 11:54 AM
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#120
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In the Sin Bin
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See.
Windcovers for all!
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