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To other east coast skiers, stop bitching about having Shite snow, small vertical, etc. Instead you should be building a mountain. get someone to haul dirt up mount snow during the summer and add an extra 6000 vertical, the season would be way longer, would only cost a couple billion dollars
I will always have love for east coast skiing and know what to expect (low vert, shit snow, great rails, etc) but what gets me is the cost of lift tickets that’s comparable to vail resorts which is already overpriced imo, on top of insanely long lift lines. I grew up in the Alps and the most we pay for a day pass is 50$ for 1000% more terrain.
I mean while it was only a couple hundred feet Mount St Louis Moonstone already did this, raised the vert of each peak and took out almost all the dead spots on the mountain. The quarry is now lined with like a tarp I believe and they collect rain/meltwater to use for snowmaking and lower expenses. Pretty cool story if you look into it.
"In the 1970s Virginia Beach, VA, built Mt. Trashmore, a former landfill that transformed into a mountain, with a skatepark next door, a lake with paddle boats in front and July 4th fireworks held at Mt. Trashmore every July 4th and New Years Eve. It has picnic grounds, bike paths, walking paths, playgrounds with swings, jungle gyms etc. etc. It sounds gross, but it turned a huge, stinking eyesore, into a recreational destination."
"In the 1970s Virginia Beach, VA, built Mt. Trashmore, a former landfill that transformed into a mountain, with a skatepark next door, a lake with paddle boats in front and July 4th fireworks held at Mt. Trashmore every July 4th and New Years Eve. It has picnic grounds, bike paths, walking paths, playgrounds with swings, jungle gyms etc. etc. It sounds gross, but it turned a huge, stinking eyesore, into a recreational destination."
Not really that gross considering dirt is dead and decayed organic material. No difference once grass grows over it
Or we could make a high ambitious indoor ski resort on top of a parking garage in an area where no one actually skis just as a big middle finger to west coasters in the summer.
I know people already mentioned digging down and they mentioned building up. What i'm saying is dig down and use said dug down ground to build up the top and boom. You got extension on both ends.
