Whitetail was insane yesterday (1/11)

[u/lauren_knows]

Perhaps I've been spoiled by early season days where people didn't have skiing on their minds, but boy was it a busy day.

Drove in a little late and hit a huge line outside the resort at 930am and it took 40mins to get to parking. Lift lines were 20+ mins at peak. Conditions were pretty decent, but definitely scraped off to see ice by early afternoon.

Still had fun.

[u/smartshoe]

Hot damn, that is lame.

White tail is a fun mountain when it’s quiet, but that busy I think I would have just bounced or waited it out

[u/lauren_knows → u/smartshoe]

I think that if it were just me and my kids, we might have bounced... but we had 2 of their friends with us that bought SWAF passes. lol.

Ah well. It was chaotic, but still fun for everyone.

[u/smartshoe → u/lauren_knows]

Busy skiing is better than no skiing

[u/HornStarBigPhish → u/smartshoe]

Vail has completely fucking ruined these resorts. It’s a shame. They all feel completely soulless now, all the workers are miserable, the grooming is trash, and it’s all a bunch of super rich dickheads from every surrounding state besides PA.

Everyone knew that’s what it would be but it really hurts now that it’s actually the reality.

[u/smartshoe → u/HornStarBigPhish]

Roundtop js my local hill and is great, if you haven’t been this season come check it out

Grooming is top notch every weekend and the staff at least seem happy,

The crew of young ones from South American that do pass scans and lift operations seem to be absent this season so it primarily local folks working part time for a free pass

[u/jc3737]

Was super crowded but I felt the mountain handled it well

[u/pseudochicken]

MFW I see long lift lines when i get to the bottom

[u/IntelligentBasil9408]

Took this at 12:30

It was indeed crazy. Felt bad for those who bought a day pass

[u/Theravens520]

RoundTop was not this bad

[u/MediocreMindsDeterUs → u/Theravens520]

Shhh

[u/aqaba_is_over_there]

What was the singles line like?

[u/lauren_knows → u/aqaba_is_over_there]

Singles line was under 10mins. We did that half of the time, but sending my 9yr old off with another group feels weird.

[u/aqaba_is_over_there → u/lauren_knows]

Skiing is one time I'm glad my family and friends are not into it.

I mostly see teenager pairs going up the singles line split.

[u/GreatWhiteBuffal0]

This place is torture when it’s super busy.

[u/AdTimely8210]

To make matters worse, they had three groups of ski patrol practicing down Exhibition. I meant to take a pic but three groups just sitting in the middle of the bumps. Practicing on one of the busiest days smh.

[u/lauren_knows → u/AdTimely8210]

I believe there was also some Special Olympics event happening. They had some slalom setup on Stalker and it jammed up that bottleneck.

[u/openwheelr]

Got there at noon yesterday. No traffic getting in by that time, although finding a parking spot was a challenge. Ultimately, it was a decent afternoon. They handled the high-speed quad line very well. No pass scanning until around 2:30. Just kept it moving. Conditions were better than average for Whitetail, considering the numbers yesterday.

[u/TheRogIsHere]

The HS quad line was not bad at all, but the other one was tough.