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This happened in November but I missed it. VR hasn't printed any maps for a while due to covid, and they've decided to end it entirely and have us use their app. Trend or one-off? We'll see.
I dig trail maps, so add another to the growing list of things I don't like about Vail Resorts.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hope that's not a general trend. Apps are all well and good until you forget your phone or it runs out of charge. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Seems like a no brainer for resorts. Saves money, can be promoted as a green initiative, and they can sell piste map goggle wipes.
I personally do like a trail map, so a little disappointed to see them go, make for a nice souvenir. That said they get wet and soggy and flap about in the wind, a phone is much better (battery issues withstanding).
I wish all resorts put a trail map on the chairlift bar and in gondolas.
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| boarder2020 wrote: |
| ... I wish all resorts put a trail map on the chairlift bar and in gondolas. |
Which VR do. So it's not an issue for most of us.
You do, of course, have to put the bar down to see them 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I’ve a treasure trove of paper piste maps, gathered on our travels.
I hope they remain, elsewhere.
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I like the boonmaps trail map I just downloaded for Red mountain - makes way more sense to me than the paper one due to the 360° nature of the skiing there - unless you chop up the paper one and roll it into various cones 
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I go boarding with a couple of people who are essentially human piste maps so I don't tend to get one and I'm happy to follow them.
On the occasion I want to look at a map I use the Bergfex app on my phone or one of those big ones at the top of lifts.
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| Scooter in Seattle wrote: |
This happened in November but I missed it. VR hasn't printed any maps for a while due to covid, and they've decided to end it entirely and have us use their app. Trend or one-off? We'll see.
I dig trail maps, so add another to the growing list of things I don't like about Vail Resorts. |
I second that. And aside from Whistler and Kirkwood their hills are lame compared to most Ikon hills.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Yes phones make terrible maps outdoors. Difficult to read and no context. Also a good chance of dropping them.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Which would you rather fumble & drop whilst on a chairlift - a free paper map or your phone? And which is easier to replace whilst in resort? And on the Green front, which is the more biodegradable when the snow melts?
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You know it makes sense.
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The best trail maps are the ones mounted on safety bars
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| philwig wrote: |
| boarder2020 wrote: |
| ... I wish all resorts put a trail map on the chairlift bar and in gondolas. |
Which VR do. So it's not an issue for most of us.
You do, of course, have to put the bar down to see them |
But when you sat at the end of a 6 pack, you can only see the edge of the map. That's a quarter of the mountain!
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Poster: A snowHead
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| boarder2020 wrote: |
Seems like a no brainer for resorts. Saves money, can be promoted as a green initiative, and they can sell piste map goggle wipes.
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VR did a few other "green" changes too. Such as not making snow pre-Christmas (or actually, not making snow at all regardless in many smaller local resorts they own)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| abc wrote: |
| boarder2020 wrote: |
Seems like a no brainer for resorts. Saves money, can be promoted as a green initiative, and they can sell piste map goggle wipes.
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VR did a few other "green" changes too. Such as not making snow pre-Christmas (or actually, not making snow at all regardless in many smaller local resorts they own) |
Yeah and not generating carbon emissions by running lifts or groomers or enough buses from the parking lots...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Possibly so for tourists, but the majority of skiers at VR are locals |
Sod the tourists then! 
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Bansko also stopped paper maps for what it is worth.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Discovered at New Year that the Crystal Ski app* has a nice feature - it has the piste maps of all the resorts they go to, which is pretty standard, but it also shows your location with a dot when in resort, on whatever lift or piste you are on, which I found remarkable given how fast and loose most piste maps play with the actual geography. Helpful should you find yourself temporarily geographically embarrassed.
*You don't have to be travelling with them to use it
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