Hitting Meadows on Tues

Kataku2k3 · Since 14 Aug 2005 3754 Posts PDX-LA Videographer

My gf and I stayed over on HRM most of the day... Around 2:15 we cut back to Mt. Hood Express, waited in line forever, then took Ridge Run/Buttercup out (since I was parked 5 rows from the back) and I saw it just as we passed Cascade's terminal.

mschulz · Since 29 May 2007 530 Posts Reno, NV Addicted

Meadows is like the USPS. You either love them or hate them. They seem to be late adopters to everything, and then make the same mistakes other resorts did because they don't do their home work. I also don't think they care. They have cornered the market.

forrest · Wed Dec 31, 08 10:40 am

Hein, I ride jib boards that have 2.5 degree bevel off the base, plus I also round my edges over. I keep a completely different board for sessioning rails than the board I ride regularly in the park and just take two boards to the mountain. I think with skis its more about keeping you skis at an angle to the rail, but I dunno, never skied.

Meadows has high demand. My opinion is that they need to raise their season pass prices to be more inline with other resorts, and use that revenue to drastically improve the experience of their users.

genek · Since 21 Jul 2006 2165 Posts East Po KGB

pdxmonkeyboy · Wed Dec 31, 08 11:08 am

yeah, I think the biggest thing as they really don't give two shits about what you think. If you live in portland or HR, where else are you going to go? Ski hole?

wakeup · Since 11 Sep 2005 328 Posts always Obsessed

after sooo many years of the same dumb stuff that they do, i have had enough.

several people said it on here--"meadows just doesn't care what people think"
and it is true, they still have 10000 people ready to throw down for a pass

i still go there on occasion(and like hein said --it is what you make it) but i don't count on it as my main winter riding addiction fix anymore, or give them much more of my money---they don't deserve it.
as a consumer i am not going to keep giving someone my money if they give me crappy service time and time again

if the snow level is low ski bowl has the best terrain on the mountain, by far
and hardly anyone rides the goods there
i choose the hole over ghettos anytime it is good

pdxmonkeyboy · Sun Jan 04, 09 2:33 pm

Yeah, I just don't board that much anymore because I'm pretty much over Meadows and can't tolerate the slow lifts at ski bowl. Its nice to be infected by stoke from the likes of Kramer and company but when I show up and upper heather is closed and they come drag me away when I am hiking up to super bowl, its hard to stay jazzed.

If only we lived closer to Bachelor. Now THAT is the shit over there. Wide open bowls with no damn groomers and seriously steep pitches with a proper amount of trees with good spacing. Man I love that place. it gets hella windy, but it is still the best resort in oregon by a long shot.

Matt E. · Since 22 May 2008 318 Posts West Coast Sales Rep Obsessed

Yeah I never due anything to my ski edges and eventually they wear down and work great on rails.

genek · Since 21 Jul 2006 2165 Posts East Po KGB

blowhard · Since 26 Dec 2005 2027 Posts Windward

Flatular,, for east side snow

Anthony Lakes
for better east side snow