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Ski Resort w the worst/longest lift line is....

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snowswinger
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Mar 17 2011 3:07AM
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Yung_Gnarley
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Breck.
No question.
Mar 17 2011 3:12AM
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Ducky.
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Whistler has some pretty damn long lines sometimes...
Mar 17 2011 3:13AM
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Yung_Gnarley
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Actually A-Basin early season might take the cake.
Mar 17 2011 3:15AM
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I.B
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Breck or yeah A basin
Mar 17 2011 3:21AM
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Squaw6
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Squaw is absolutely unbelievable on weekend powder days. Hour long lift lines everywhere. KT can get north of an hour. Vail is pretty bad as well.
Mar 17 2011 3:23AM
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skier_boy26
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Worst lines I've personally been in are at squaw, northstar, and blackcomb on opening day a few years back.

Mar 17 2011 3:25AM
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RudyGarmisch
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Northway at Crystal?
Mar 17 2011 3:29AM
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hjb
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This happened last year in Niseko when this was the only chair open. It's probably about 100m of vert.

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Mar 17 2011 3:50AM
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AA-Shred
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Squaw
Mar 17 2011 4:09AM
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hoodratz47
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early season at keystone.. 1.5 hr wait... rode up with olenick claim/
Mar 17 2011 5:40AM
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.spaghetticat.
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Wintergreen VA haha east coast lines are crazy we have 5 lifts it gets real crowded I have a question in April should I go to Breckinridge or keystone I'm looking for a better park
Mar 17 2011 6:49AM
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alexg1687
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Cardrona without a doubt
Mar 17 2011 8:20AM
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uosdwiSrjewoH
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pff, all you west coast kids. i used to wait half an hour to forty five at chicopee in ontario for less than 200ft. of vert.
Mar 17 2011 8:23AM
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Triple_Strum
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those indeed can be bad, but nothing compared to the crappy beginner slope lift at Massanutten on a bad day :) Yeah virginia.
Mar 17 2011 8:38AM
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TechnoPotamus
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breck. chair 8
Mar 17 2011 8:55AM
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Austeeze
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can't imagine if it was one of those weird single chairs they have :/
Mar 17 2011 9:01AM
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.Tom.
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Lines at cardrona never get over like 30-40 mins.
Mar 17 2011 9:03AM
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alexg1687
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cardrona NZ?!?
Mar 17 2011 9:05AM
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ORDEAL
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Vail, chairs 2 and 4. I dont even bother with those
Mar 17 2011 9:29AM
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jerm
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the mile and palmer at timberline can get pretty rough in the summer from about 9am to 11am.
Mar 17 2011 9:33AM
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yojimbo
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had some over an hour days at both sunday river and sugarloaf. holiday weekends with powder and windhold=terrible lift lines
Mar 17 2011 9:47AM
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.Tom.
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Yeh, in my season there the line never got out of the general area for lines. There are pics here of lines going up slopes.
Mar 17 2011 10:01AM
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willy_baller
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Where is chair 8? I have skied over 50 days at Breck this year and have yet to see a chair 8...
Mar 17 2011 10:13AM
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Scott0_robot0
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longest line iv ever been in was at mommoth but i dont htink it tops any of these.
Mar 17 2011 10:30AM
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Brenone
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Ive spent an hour+ at Killington before but the longest I ever saw was Heavenly on a Saturday afternoon.
Mar 17 2011 10:30AM
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PON3
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i had not one bit of trouble at vail. but i was in the backbowls the whole time.

and i would say breck
Mar 17 2011 10:35AM
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Karma_Police
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And you didn't hike because?
Mar 17 2011 10:37AM
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Gharf
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whistler peak chair opening ?
Mar 17 2011 11:26AM
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Yung_Gnarley
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haha seriously.
most people can hike 200 vertical no problem.
Mar 17 2011 11:28AM
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Drail
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not the "longest", but back in Ontario I've had 45min lift lines at Blue Mountain some weekends which is saying something because it was for a 6 man chairlift where it takes 2min to get up the hill and 1min to get down.

That's a lot of down time in a day.
Mar 17 2011 11:28AM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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the bowl lines at vail can get ridiculous come late morning when everyone starts to filter back.

breck is nuts if you don't know where to be and when.


Mar 17 2011 11:32AM
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JRyder
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Northway? Really? Whenever I've been there's 10 ppl max
Mar 17 2011 11:34AM
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kootenayklaus
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Bahahahaha I was at this hill called Uplands in Ontario... No park, 80 feet of vert (top to bottom in 19 seconds) and the liftlines were 30 minutes... Yeah, I just hiked to the top.
Mar 17 2011 11:39AM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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holy shit. it took you 19 seconds to ski 80 feet? you ski too slowly. :)
Mar 17 2011 11:44AM
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kootenayklaus
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I straighted it. The hill isn't steep, it's really mellow. They call it a beginners hill, one for people to learn on.
Mar 17 2011 11:46AM
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Dhane
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mountain creek NJ. one resort for the entire state and NYC. things get hairy on any day of the week
Mar 17 2011 11:57AM
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ThaLetterM.
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definitely not Park City, fuck all you line waiters
Mar 17 2011 11:57AM
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Evilchris
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I've seen a 1:15 hour wait at blue hills in MA. I took the lift once that day and spent the rest hiking then park
Mar 17 2011 11:59AM
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.jersey
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Yup. A couple years ago before they got a new skye peak quad chair it was pretty routine to wait 30+ minutes in line, not to mention you spent about 15 minutes on the lift, which now is about 5.
Mar 17 2011 11:59AM
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k.perkins
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ya
Mar 17 2011 12:00PM
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monkatizer
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thats rediculos, who would wait in that line??!!
Mar 17 2011 12:02PM
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skichicky3
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to everyone thats saying Breck, thats b.s. I was just there for a week and the lines were nothing compared to the lines at Sugarloaf. This is the line I waited in two weekends ago, its so long that you can't even see the lift.

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Mar 17 2011 12:06PM
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pink_squid
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^^ u kind of haft to.....it was the only one open

Mar 17 2011 12:06PM
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doGelyst
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the thing is, as huge as these pictures seem, its really only one line of people. remember that breck has several lanes that all funnel down to the actual lift.

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Mar 17 2011 12:28PM
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PON3
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when i was at breck later in the day i was at peak 10 and i had less than a 10 min wait if that. and that was during like 2-4 pm

but when i want to peak 6 and 7 is was soooooo fucking packed
Mar 17 2011 12:42PM
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LO_GO
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Breck on the weekends. I hate it cause the park is on peak 8 and that also happens to be where schoolmarm is
Mar 17 2011 12:46PM
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Davy.Crockett
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i am by no means a local ive only skiied whistler four times, but it was over winter break. i was expecting the worst, but i never had to wait for more then five to ten mintues. there was also decent snow, but not an epic pow day. ive had worse lines at my own home mountains 
Mar 17 2011 12:57PM
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Reed.
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schoolmarm is a run at keystone.
Mar 17 2011 1:11PM
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k.perkins
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Hi Reed. Mrowwww
Mar 17 2011 1:15PM
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KAS
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Damn, I heard about that the other day. Superquad can get pretty big, but I have never seen it that big.

There's actually big lines at CB now cuz of all the damn texans are here for break this week.
Mar 17 2011 1:31PM
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