free Drinking Water near lift mazes ?
When I received one of those Vail - Heavenly feedback emails this week, one of the write in suggestions I made was for resorts to provide drinking water up on slopes at some lifts so snow enthusiasts can re-hydrate thus not need to go into day lodging or back to their vehicles to drink whatever. During normal seasons, I always thought the reason resorts did such was to increases food and beverage sales. In fact, it would be difficult to find any obvious free water at some day lodges unless one drank out of restroom faucets (yuck) or asked a bartender. An issue I have with buying water or beverages in ski lodges besides the certain jacked cost is the size of most of average drink containers is usual a few times the amount I actually need and would rather sip a small amount over a couple hours versus swallowing a bunch. This season with the pandemic, many prefer to avoid going into day lodges except for possible restroom use. And honestly, some days I am just so into skiing, will tend to avoid taking time out, taking off skis, then going wherever to get a thirsty little drink.
Another issue this season for the minority of us that choose to pull masks down while skiing down is we need to stop before entering lift mazes in order re-position our masks. So also suggested resorts set up a safe from speeding traffic small roped off stations above lift mazes where those approaching lifts could stop to adjust masks before moving close to dense others that would also have one of those common water bottle with spigots along with a supply of small paper cups and a trash can. Of course on days well below freezing, a bit of insulation around a bottle might slow the tendency to freeze. Such consumer product water dispensers and small paper cups are of course quite inexpensive.
When I received one of those Vail - Heavenly feedback emails this week, one of the write in suggestions I made was for resorts to provide drinking water up on slopes at some lifts so snow enthusiasts can re-hydrate thus not need to go into day lodging or back to their vehicles to drink whatever. During normal seasons, I always thought the reason resorts did such was to increases food and beverage sales. In fact, it would be difficult to find any obvious free water at some day lodges unless one drank out of restroom faucets (yuck) or asked a bartender. An issue I have with buying water or beverages in ski lodges besides the certain jacked cost is the size of most of average drink containers is usual a few times the amount I actually need and would rather sip a small amount over a couple hours versus swallowing a bunch. This season with the pandemic, many prefer to avoid going into day lodges except for possible restroom use. And honestly, some days I am just so into skiing, will tend to avoid taking time out, taking off skis, then going wherever to get a thirsty little drink.
Another issue this season for the minority of us that choose to pull masks down while skiing down is we need to stop before entering lift mazes in order re-position our masks. So also suggested resorts set up a safe from speeding traffic small roped off stations above lift mazes where those approaching lifts could stop to adjust masks before moving close to dense others that would also have one of those common water bottle with spigots along with a supply of small paper cups and a trash can. Of course on days well below freezing, a bit of insulation around a bottle might slow the tendency to freeze. Such consumer product water dispensers and small paper cups are of course quite inexpensive.
