I understand that it’s comfortable and fast and all but believe me when I say that it really ruined the skiing experience. When I started skiing there, they had a double and a triple that went to the top and that was nice. Did that double get uncomfortable on sub zero nights when it was storming, my jeans were wet and it stopped for five minutes halfway up? Yeah, absolutely, but you know, whatever. Except for a few choke points, Jiminy never felt crowded back then. When they added a fixed quad for the expert runs down the middle of the hill and another quad for the Widow White’s Peak expansion, it started to feel a little crowded on that side of the mountain. Holidays started to get a little crazy. When they replaced the original Riblet double with that six pack, it was all over. Now Jiminy may as well be Hunter or Windham. It didn’t used to be that way. It used to be cool. They could have at least just put in a HS quad. It still would have doubled the base-to-peak uphill capacity and it would be too many skiers on a busy weekend but, you know, can’t stop progress I guess.. They replaced a fixed grip Riblet double with a HS six pac. It’s the very definition of too much lift capacity for the terrain. Jiminy just isn’t big enough to absorb that lift. It never will be.
