Why Crystal sux

OK, if it's not the resort's job to teach them, then to whom does the responsibility fall?

Thanks so much for your excellent suggestion! However I already ski midweek regularly. I am also indoctrinating three sons to the sport which, at this time, requires me to also ski weekends. My complaints, by the way (had you read my previous post in the thread), stem not from weekends, but from midweek. Re-read (or read, period), and understand.

Are you really so narrow-minded as to believe that everyone has the same set of circumstances as you do and should just "call in sick"? Perhaps you're the one with the snow shovel who should have been managing the lift line that night at Acres.

Bottom line: it is the resort's responsibility to manage THEIR liftline on THEIR chairlifts so that THEIR customers who pay THEM $60 a day to ski do not have to stand unnecessarily in line. To even suggest otherwise is preposterous. Please.

I'm a schoolteacher, so I have only weekends to ski (except snow days, Monday 1/28 was fun omen all).  Here's my top ten ways of having a ton of weekend fun at crystal:

1) Get up early.  from 8:45 until 10:00 you can ski the mountain without crowds.  You can get a heck of a lot of vert in an hour and a quarter!

2) Ski North back.  Make the most of things by hiking out to Brand X or environs.  The new chair is hardly ever crowded and by hiking you get cardio and avoid the sidehill marginal Otto Bahn abortion

3) When south is open, hike the King.  5 or six of these on the weekend and you don't even remember you are there on a weekend

4) Put a sammy in yer pocket and skip lunchtime  (or go in early when crowds start to build at 10:30, then back out at 11:15 when the thinning begins).

5) Ski later, the crowds thin after 1:00.  Especially effective if you've done 2 or 3 above.

6) Take your skins for the 10:30 -1:30 crush and put in an east peak blast.  Then back for the p.m open lines.

7) Leave your urban rush rush attitude at home.  Tell some jokes when in line.  Talk to your neighbors on the flying couch.  Loudly proclaim how much fun you are having.

Break up your routine.  Be a kid again and do TLC to boondoggle (or fardoggle!).  Ski chair 4 (Quicksilver), never crowded and some exploration down in the gullies on either side can yield interesting freshies. Gold Hills is also rarely crowded and there's short tree shots by the old ski jump.

9) Ski Niagras, O-meadows, Keyway etc. all the way to E-lot and catch the shuttle.  There's a new trail that runs all the way to the Boulevard and it's fall line all the way. from Guntower ridge.

10) Walk out behind High Campbell base station to the glades above the lake. Stop and enjoy after the short hike and have a snack, smoke, drink, whatever floats your boat.

If you still think Crystal sucks on the weekend after trying these suggestions, I'm sorry.  Maybe you could find happiness by drowning kittens.  I will be skiing satsun and having a blast.

OK, folks some of you might be missing the point here, so here it is again (at least my side of it). The issue is a 6 person chair going up with 3 or 4 people on it when there is a LONG line and not just a few chairs it was like 3 out 5 and nobody who works there doing anything about it. As posted earlier they seem to have it dialed at Forrest Queen so why not Chinook especially with it being the main lift to get folks up the hill. Now with that said if you are just complaining about lift lines in general on weekends then yes that is a different story and you should take skifish's recommendations or just don't go on weekends.

Mom and Dad , ski instuctors, friends, can teach their compadre's how to get on and off chairs.

I don't know??? Maybe ski resorts should offer a class in chair lift loading and unloading.

But , how do you teach someone, standing in line, with a pair of earphones , looking at you like they have no clue as to what to do next.

It's like listening to Dustin Hoffman in Rainman.

"Who's on first? I don't know, who? No, that's what I just asked, No, who's on second.......................LOL!!

It's pretty hard to teach a retard new tricks.

I'll just ski midweek, Thank you!

OK, folks some of you might be missing the point here, so here it is again (at least my side of it). The issue is a 6 person chair going up with 3 or 4 people on it when there is a LONG line and not just a few chairs it was like 3 out 5 and nobody who works there doing anything about it. As posted earlier they seem to have it dialed at Forrest Queen so why not Chinook especially with it being the main lift to get folks up the hill. Now with that said if you are just complaining about lift lines in general on weekends then yes that is a different story and you should take skifish's recommendations or just don't go on weekends.

My suggestion to you is , get ahold of John Kirsher, owner. Tell him about your problem. LOL!

Hey, once they get your $58, it's a free for all. Lift line organization? What's that?

You can't discriminate against retards. They get to buy a lift ticket just like you. As long as there are retards skiing, you will have lift line chaos.

Have you ever watched a Warren Miller film?

His films are so funny, because he always puts a part in about lift line gapers. Or , retards, as I like to call them.

It's simple.

Midweek=Peaceful Skiing

Week End Skiing=Chaos, bad drivers, long lift lines, retards, gapers, tons of kids, smart asses, rude people, smokers, one piece fartbags with rear entry boots, feet together skiing like Stein Erickson..................

I don't know, you choose............

I'll take Midweek , please, thank you!

Fascinating reading and tangents.

Lest it be lost though, the original point:

1. When there are long lines at Chinook Express (Chex), many chairs are sent up unfilled thus making the wait unnecessarily longer. The solution: have the singles line end close enough to the gates so that when the chairs are unfilled, singles can fill them up*
2. Crystal's non-response and bureaucratic/large corporation features

*Note that Forest Queen, GV, and Rex's (though less so) singles lines are usually set up this way and even if no one is loading the chairs it is easier to fill them up.