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Competitive-Boat4592 t1_j5o9zfa wrote

As possibly the only masshole that has never and MAY never ski or snowboard, even I feel for you guys lol

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MeEvilBob t1_j5qtw3d wrote

You'd be surprised. I've worked at various ski areas and resorts around New England and a running theme in Massachusetts is lift operators who have never attempted to ski and have no desire to, they just like working the lifts because it's easy work if you don't do more than the bare minimum.

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somegridplayer t1_j5ua29d wrote

>a running theme in Massachusetts is lift operators who have never attempted to ski and have no desire to

Aren't liftees in MA the same as everywhere else? Like 5 locals and 25 foreign kids on vacation?

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MeEvilBob t1_j5w2duk wrote

At larger mountains many of the lifts start further up the mountain, so they require all lift employees to be able to ski safely enough to get from one lift to another easily. With the exception of Wachusett, most places in MA have all the lifts starting at the base level so anyone can walk up to them.

There's also a lot more people in MA who want easy consistent seasonal work than there are avid skier/snowboarders who don't mind making minimum wage. With the work being seasonal they get away with not paying overtime, so many of the lift operators/attendants are working open to close 7 days a week

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somegridplayer t1_j5w41fw wrote

SR has a couple lifts that either liftees walk to or get a ride on a sled to. Not allowed to ride or ski on the clock.

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LongHaulTruckerHat t1_j5re10g wrote

Some of them don’t even do the bare minimum…..that’s how accidents happen.

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[deleted] t1_j5t3oev wrote

That’s just how this entire society of broken capitalism is structured

Maybe if we paid people more than slave wages things would be better

But nope, gotta pay for the wealthy’s yachts and jets, and put up with people and their sniveling bootstraps brainrot of rugged individualism for the poor and govt welfare for the wealthy

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Roff_Bob t1_j5s2b17 wrote

You are not alone.

In winter '67 a college classmate said to a group of us "You gotta be crazy or drunk to ride down a mountain on a pair of sticks". Words to live by.

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CC_Ramone t1_j5p7wh4 wrote

Dude what the fuckkkk I was finally gonna be able to use my season pass today

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SeaworthinessLeft88 t1_j5oomns wrote

I mean, they just groom it all down there anyway 🤷‍♂️ . It will be in the same exact state tomorrow as it is today.

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MeEvilBob t1_j5qunzm wrote

FWIW, every ski area in New England makes most of the snow themselves.

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funsk8mom OP t1_j5pc3at wrote

A lot of schools have ski club tonight that now have to cancel

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AutomaticMidnite t1_j5pci9v wrote

When we were poor college students sometime in the early 2000s a friend of mine and I went to Wachusett and climbed up the hills to then snowboard down. We did this for most of the day until a justifiably irate man met us at the bottom of a run and told us to get off his mountain.

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bjanas t1_j5piwmo wrote

I'm not sure about Wachusett but if I'm not mistaken a whole lot of resorts are actually located on public land and just have like, some type of easements or something so they can run the equipment on it. I'd wonder what the rights are as far as just hiking it.

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fetamorphasis t1_j5r59jj wrote

Most of the mountains you’re thinking of have leases from the National Forest Service. These leases allow them to block access to the ski area when it’s operating in the winter because they are doing things like grooming and making snow which are dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. They can also stop you from skiing down their trails, even if you hiked in on public land, because if you get injured, you’ll still use ski patrol resources. You’re also using man-made snow and grooming. In practice very few of them actually enforce this, but the possibility is there if people abuse the access.

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[deleted] t1_j5t3sqr wrote

Who cares haha do it anyways

They usually don’t groom during active hours anyways unless they close the trail down for that etc

Easy to walk up for free, make ‘em stop you

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MeEvilBob t1_j5qu1gt wrote

> a justifiably irate man

Miiiiister Crowley, what you done in your head?

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Lurker_wife t1_j5qgn07 wrote

Yup. No school today in Princeton due to major outage.. it’s back as of 15 minutes ago.

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tjlightbulb t1_j5o9zos wrote

I got lucky and went for the snow storm on Friday

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SundanceKidZero t1_j5s58ih wrote

Not the first time that's happened. In January 2011 or 2012 I was on that hill for night skiing when the power went out around 7PM. People were skiing down the mountain and suddenly were plunged into darkness, people were stuck on the lifts for maybe an hour? My friends and I hiked up Indian Summer by the Monadnock lift and road down in the dark. Wildest sensation I've ever felt.

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nquinlivan55 t1_j5t9vl4 wrote

I was there when it went out, luckily I have a season pass but I feel bad for all the day passers they just told to go home

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julesiex t1_j5qg73u wrote

Possibly no power until 6:30 tomorrow AM. I live at the top of the mountain. There is some sort of major outage in Princeton. Hope people check before they drive there

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funsk8mom OP t1_j5qhe3d wrote

They posted that power was restored at 4 but that Polar Express would be closed

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julesiex t1_j5qhiwp wrote

Oh great! Hopefully power comes on sooner for everyone then 😁 thanks for the update

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somegridplayer t1_j5u2cmk wrote

Welcome to ski season 22/23. If its not the snow, its the resort.

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