They have community white boards at Alta at the main lift.Taking off from @litterbug 's post... Installed on the ski lift, as chair comes in on the other side from where you're standing there waiting to it, a big blower to dry off the seat with one or two strong blasts of hot air.
For the cell phone-challenged set, community chalk boards for communicating with lost ski buddies.
I would like a mountain divided into areas - with a base lift in each area - all accessing different peaks - to spread out the arrival crowds. At least one of those should be a gondola. RFID access for sure. Plenty of different spots to eat also spread out around the resort. I would also like if each area had variety of terrain to allow friends of differing abilities to ride the lift up together, but still split off to ski. Of course, I would place this resort in a major snow zone so there would be fantastic conditions. I would also add an excellent demo department with well maintained skis. Reasonable lift prices, free parking, cheap beer/wine, good food at reasonable prices. Truthfully, if I have all that...I'm good to go. I don't need anything else.
Boy would I love to do that! First I need to get my DS through university. Then I may actually have "disposable" income!Come to Europe. This is pretty much how it is over here, though parking can be busy...
RFID access for sure.
It may be snowboarders, but my guess is that they're groomed out because most skiers don't like them or just can't ski well on them. That leaves the bumps on ungroomed black runs that are steep enough to add exposure to the challenge of the bumps. People still seem to learn; from the chair I see people picking their way one turn at a time, which is probably the only way I'm going to learn to ski them. I'll get some instruction first, although at this point that's likely to consist of working on short turns.I 2nd the idea of grades of bump runs. I haven't been able to teach DS to ski bumps at all in SoCal. There aren't any bump runs at the local mountains anymore. I'm not sure why because there used to be. Snowboardering maybe?