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Skiing after closing

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GoCougs77
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I was wondering if you can ski after the 3:30 pm lift close time by hiking. Like if I was already just hiking the park can I just stay up there as long as I want?
Aug 14 2013 5:55PM 54 3
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cultrara
Posts: 5132 - Karma: 46,597
You can stay as long as it takes for someone to kick you out /thread
Aug 14 2013 5:57PM 18 0
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a_burger
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^Which may be rather fast because park crews (at least around here) like to fix the lips and stuff before everything freezes overnight.
Aug 14 2013 6:01PM 1 0
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YewTard
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Probably not. Patrol runs sweeps at the end of every day to make sure everyone is off the mountain to enable the groomers, etc to start their shift for the night- if you were to get hurt after closing the resort could still be liable depending on state law, which is obviously something they don't want.

At least in Utah some the resorts are cool with letting people hike pre-season or even during normal operational hours, but that's about it.

Aug 14 2013 6:12PM 2 0
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PsychedelicMoose
Posts: 792 - Karma: 3,552
I keep hitting til they tell me to leave.
Aug 14 2013 6:20PM 2 0
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WavyHairDon
Posts: 53 - Karma: 255
had to go to skier safety awareness class cause me and a homie wanted a few extra laps through A51. get caught again and we get our passes clipped
Aug 15 2013 3:24AM 4 0
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Lord.Quasimoto
Posts: 958 - Karma: 28
Not on resort property, no
Aug 15 2013 3:46AM 1 0
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Pipe_Munky
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there's thing thing called trespassing...a lot of resorts don't like it and some call the police
Aug 15 2013 10:41AM 1 0
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schism
Posts: 1701 - Karma: 375
Most ski hills will have there groomer ready to go right after closing, so unless you want to piss the groomer off, I wouldn't go out after closing.
Aug 15 2013 11:01AM 1 1
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gusestomp
Posts: 1377 - Karma: 746
PA reppin where the mountain closes at 10PM
Aug 15 2013 12:05PM 9 1
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Profahoben_212
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We were building I kicker in some trees one day....lost track of time and came down at like 6:30....just waved at the patroller and left. Nobody seemed to care.
Aug 15 2013 1:53PM 0 0
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jordy19
Posts: 2550 - Karma: 427
might work on small mountain. but me and my friend tried to hike a rail in park city right outside the marriot and they threatened to call the police because it was trespassing. they also almost clipped our 3 day tickets
Aug 15 2013 1:56PM 0 0
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.bo.
Posts: 444 - Karma: 105
Did it multiple times this spring once sunday river started closing at 4. Got kicked out once, was told that if i get hurt that no patroller will help me but i can stay as long as I want once, and no one said anything to my friends and I the third time... depends on the mountain I guess
Aug 15 2013 2:32PM 0 0
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CaptainObvious.
Posts: 5694 - Karma: 20,327
Get hired on a park crew. Then this thread is moot.
Aug 15 2013 2:41PM 0 0
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d00d
Posts: 2686 - Karma: 7,038
10 pm on the east coast is where it's at. But most places will just ask you to leave when closing. I'm sure they would get pissed if you tried to sneak up there to hike a feature and doesn't really seem worth it at that point.
Aug 15 2013 2:44PM 3 0
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freestyler540
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I always try to go for the last lift. Then, I smoke a few dewbs and relax until I decide its time to go.
Aug 15 2013 2:49PM 1 0
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saxon
Posts: 1159 - Karma: 549
HA. I wish we had that problem !
Aug 15 2013 4:00PM 3 0
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Ankilla
Posts: 506 - Karma: 2,374
My moauntain closes at 12 am and another one near me in columbus closes at 2 am so that is unneeded haha
Aug 15 2013 4:30PM 2 0
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AlexFogo85
Posts: 550 - Karma: 7,319
My home mountain, Crotched, reppin staying up to ski til 3am
Aug 15 2013 5:44PM 0 0
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caucasian_chad
Posts: 4078 - Karma: 3,610
In the park or on a run, no. Patrol or park crew will want you to leave. You can hole up in a smoke shack for a while and ski down later though. It's fun ski down when there's no one else on the mountain.
Aug 15 2013 9:05PM 0 0
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Pancake_Fucker
Posts: 1833 - Karma: 1,895
There were a few times in revelstoke when we took last chair and hit slack country, and came back just before/after dark. The ski patrol there is pretty lax and they just waved and asked how the day was. I don't think a lot of resorts are like that though. If they see you on the runs they usually tell you what time it is and tell you to ski down to the bottom because theyre closed.
Aug 15 2013 9:37PM 1 0
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LiquorLanch
Posts: 1909 - Karma: 1,037
That place sucks
Aug 15 2013 9:57PM 1 0
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razors-chaz
Posts: 2255 - Karma: 1,245
Tried doing this in verbier in january and patrol came and checked in case someone was hurt but was cool about it otherwise. Then the park crew and groomer came and kicked us out as they wanted to do shaping. Then got a tow along a flat xc track from one of the resort managers on his snowmobile.
Aug 16 2013 1:43PM 0 0
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Shabangarang
Posts: 949 - Karma: 156
at last call the bar is usually calling my name..Fuck skiing
Aug 16 2013 3:14PM 1 0
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Dr.Dickless
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yeah, just don't do it

nothing pisses me off more than getting assigned to the park for sweep and there's three 13 years olds hiking a fucking flat box and then they refuse to leave

Bitch, I've been here since 5 this morning, I just want to go home
Aug 16 2013 3:38PM 1 0
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Chubz.
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hahaha
Aug 16 2013 4:17PM 0 0
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