Ski Sunday

steverandomno wrote:Has anybody oon here skied a skier only resort. Did it realy make any difference?

Yes, Deer Valley. And yes, it does make for something different. It basically removes teens and twenty somethings from the environment. So things are more civilised because most people there have fully developed frontal lobes. If you excluded everyone between 13 and 25 from any resort, it would have a similar effect on the experience. Nothing really to do with snowboards. As I mentioned above, there seems almost a class aspect to Deer Valley as well, just like an exclusive golf club.

OldAndy wrote:

steverandomno wrote:Has anybody oon here skied a skier only resort. Did it realy make any difference?

Only before boarding was invented :mrgreen:

Still the same issues ....
Some too fast and out of control and the ever present difficulty of the unexpected manoevre.
People stuck in the middle of pistes too difficult for them etc etc etc

I don't see this as an issue, if an area doesn't offer what you want then take the custom elsewhere - simples.

Bit like a watersports lake that doesn't allow powered vessels really. If you jetski then you go elsewhere.

Ha ha ... you got me there. How stupid of me to forget that all resorts were boader free before snowboards were invented.

Trencher wrote:

steverandomno wrote:Has anybody oon here skied a skier only resort. Did it realy make any difference?

Yes, Deer Valley. And yes, it does make for something different. It basically removes teens and twenty somethings from the environment. So things are more civilised because most people there have fully developed frontal lobes. If you excluded everyone between 13 and 25 from any resort, it would have a similar effect on the experience. Nothing really to do with snowboards. As I mentioned above, there seems almost a class aspect to Deer Valley as well, just like an exclusive golf club.

A bit of a generalisation :shock:, but I can see what you mean. It is basically a crude way of increasing the average age of the resorts customers. This is another reason why it won't last I guess.

I can't believe how elitist some of these opinions are!

Each to their own i suppose you are welcome to your opinion

rossyhead wrote:I can't believe how elitist some of these opinions are!

Each to their own i suppose you are welcome to your opinion

I don't understand. It's not elitist it is just straight forward discrimination. There is nothing elitist about discrimination.

Using phrases like a gentlemens club and upper class golf clubs makes me think of elitist views but that must be me.

Esp sweeping statements like-everyone under 25 causes all the issues and removing them makes the resort better

steverandomno wrote:
A bit of a generalisation :shock:, but I can see what you mean. It is basically a crude way of increasing the average age of the resorts customers. This is another reason why it won't last I guess.

Total generalisation of course, just trying to convey the atmosphere. Most of the people are very nice, but the lift lines look very different, both in the mixture of ages, and the mixture of people.

rossyhead wrote:Using phrases like a gentlemens club and upper class golf clubs makes me think of elitist views but that must be me.

Esp sweeping statements like-everyone under 25 causes all the issues and removing them makes the resort better

It was my opinion that these place are a bit elitist. I hope my opinions did not come across as elitist. There are few places in everyday America that you get a whiff of old time British class ism; it's normally only about the money. Deer Valley just has that feeling about it.

Ah ok, my apologies trencher!

Ive calmed down now anyway, just don't think there should be segregation and struggle to understand-I don think there are any boarder only resorts?