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#1 ·
Just booked a bus trip to mt snow for sunday (thanks NYC meetup thread for the idea) :yahoo:


i was there before christmas and they didnt have much open, hopefully this storm really dumps. what are some of your favorite parts of the mountain to ride? i definitely want to check out the north face and see how my Pocono talents hold up on a real slope. also i noticed the trail map doesnt have glades marked...what do you guys recommend for trees?


if anyone else is headed up feel free to hit me up, i'm taking the ovrride bus
 
#3 · (Edited)
My Saturday trip to Okemo was cancelled so I rebooked an Emilio's bus for Mt Snow on Sunday as well. :thumbsup:

I've never been to Mt Snow so I'll take any hints I can get. I just checked out the trail map and was shocked at the lack of black diamond runs. I imagine I'll be on the North Face most of the day.
 
#6 · (Edited)
I was actually pretty surprised how mellow most of the mountain was. The North Face was icy as FUCK though. Took a nasty spill around noon on what looked like an ice river on my first run on the North Face. Rocked my head (with helmet) and tail bone pretty hard. Couldn't stop myself and kept banging my legs/hips on the icy rocks as I fell :dizzy: Shook my confidence for awhile.

All of the blues on the main face turned soft and moguly (is that a word) later in the day which was nice.
 
#7 ·
Totally agree!!



I was on the override bus from nyc to mt snow on Sunday. I totally agree with you the whole north face being icy as "FUCK". I spoke with a Mt Snow instructor on the lift and she explained they had 60mph winds on Saturday. There were HUGE ICE SPOTS! Not to be a snow snob but I dont ski snowboard in these types of conditions but i already woke up at 4.30am. Im glad someone agrees with me. The whole bus thought the conditions were just the best ever! Oh well! Im a snow snob.
 
#8 ·
I was on the bus too. Got on at the Blades West stop with my younger brother. We stayed on the main face all day as it was only his second time riding. I ended up playing more of an instructor to him for the day but I still had a GREAT time. Snow was moguled from all the people chopping it up BUT it was still nice and soft. I loved it.
However had I not already had my Saturday trip to Stratton switched to Mt Snow I would have definitely jumped on the opportunity to jump on the Killy day trip
 
#10 ·
The North Face was wayy too icy. The only run that was decent was Olympic on the far left. Everything else had spots where it was nothing but ice for 20-30 feet leading directly into a mogul field. The rest of the mountain was in pretty good shape, especially early.

I was disappointed with ovrride. I emailed them early on Saturday to ask if I could cancel or reschedule because i woke up with a cold and felt like shit and they said it was too late and they would charge me the whole bus ticket price and only give me a partial refund on the lift ticket. normally i'd accept that policy but when they were on twitter all day talking about how big the waiting list was and how they were trying to add more buses because so many people wanted to go, I thought it was fucked up they were still going to charge me knowing they would fill my spot instantly :thumbsdown: so fuck em, i won't ever use ovrride again...a free muffin and a beer doesn't make up for that
 
#12 ·
If I were yall I wouldn't be so drastic in your decision to never use them again. They are still the best company to ride with and I don't think one bad experience should negate their service.
But its up to yall. I just know the amount of money I save riding with them versus going myself is ridiculous.

And a partial refund is better then no refund. Check out Emilio's policy
 
#14 ·
The policy wasn't the point. The point was them being as strict as an airline company about enforcing it in situation where they wouldn't have lost any money by refunding me. They were all over twitter and facebook talking with people who were trying to get on a bus because Sat's trips were cancelled so they could have filled my seat in a second with someone off the waiting list. Instead they wanted to pocket my entire bus fair and turn around and charge someone else full price for that same seat. in a different situation where the bus wasn't sold out i wouldn't have a problem with it, but oh well..hopefully none of you were sitting close to me
 
#15 ·
Well you feel how you feel. I was just trying to say that if this was your first trip with them that you should give them another chance. I am slower to anger because I work for an airline in customer service and I know all to well how people react when an irregular operation occurs. Everyone wants their situation to be handled first in exactly the way they think it should go. Understanding and patience usually go out the window.
From what I heard they got flooded with so many emails that some starting bouncing back to the sender :dunno:what are ya gonna do? I was lucky that I got a quick response and they agreed to switch me to the Sunday trip with no problems. But this is the first time in 3 years that I have been using them for trips that I have ever seen any problems with them.
 
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