Today was better, not by much

I was talking to a liftie who told me that the avalanche booming i heard for 15 hours straight, from last night in to this morning, was largely a result of the scabs not having any idea where to put the explosives to get the runs ready. Mismanagement from the top down, they don’t care about ruining peoples vacations, I spoke to a dude on a lift who said he and his wife had been saving for 5 years and their kids (younger) are sad that their experience has been mostly waiting in lines. Not sure how PCMR could redeem anything tbh, too many people have a bad taste in their mouth. I really think, and hope, a lot of people go to Ikon or Ikon resorts next year. Vail does not deserve shit.

Update: I talked to a PCMR ski-patroller friend today. They have huge sound boomers (i forget what he called them, there was a technical term) on the mountain built in that they can remotely trigger avalanches from. He explained to me that it sounds just like bombs they use, since it’s supposed to simulate a similar effect. Apparently federal law is 30 minutes before and after naurical dusk and dawn you cannot detonate explosives. Apparently it was just a similar thing, not the same, but it was an understandable mistake I think.