Talk:Heavenly Ski Resort

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[edit] Sonny Bono

In trying to pin down more details about Sonny Bono, those sources that do cite a location all say "Orion" (e.g. CNN). A check of the current (2004/5) trailmap shows two blue runs with "orion" in their name, both off the "dipper express" chair. Only the "Orion Wave" one is high on the mountain, as several sources claim Bono was. I deliberately didn't put "Orion Wave" in the article, as resorts are prone to keeping the overall name of features but changing details, particularly after they've changed how a run is set out; so it's quite possible the run was called Orion Somethingelse back when Bono died. If someone has an old Heavenly trailmap, or can remember better, we can change the article to show the real name of the run.

I also didn't put his time of death. Several reports say he was reported missing to ski patrol at 4.30, but that's the end of the day (and you'd generally not report someone missing for a couple of hours, particularly someone skilled like Bono). So he quite possibly hit the tree after lunch and laid there all afternoon. If I remember the scenery there, it's quite possible to mess up, ski off the run into the forest, and no-one would ever chance upon you. -- John Fader (talk · contribs) 20:34, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It was between Big Dipper and Orion above dipper bowl. -Paul Zander —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.251.54.163 (talk) 05:05, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photos

Hi all. I've got several photos I took at Heavenly this February. If any are of use to this article, please let me know and I will upload them. Heavenly and Lake Tahoe photos Stitched panoramas, including from the Heavenly lookout (All are ©2005 All Rights Reserved unless uploaded and tagged by me) --ChrisRuvolo (t) 23:00, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

They'd make nice additions to the Lake Tahoe page, but as one really can't see the ski resort I guess they're not ideal for the ski resort. Heavenly is rather hard to photograph, because it's the convex surface of the mountain (as opposed to a bowl place like Squaw). I did make a rendering using NASA World Wind, which is sufficiently detailed that one can see the individual ski runs. To make it useful I'd have to hand annotate the render and maybe draw on the skilifts, but I've not gotten around to doing so. It turns out to be very hard to correlate things on the satellite photo with the (very schematic) Heavenly trail map. -- John Fader (talk | contribs) 23:37, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Duh, I didn't realise you'd also linked to normal (non panorama) photos. I recon [1] and [2] give a reasonable reflection of the place. -- John Fader (talk | contribs) 23:55, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Here is the first one. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 06:22, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Here is number two. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 16:35, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hated the place

Went there last summer. The gondolas kept randomly stopping at the start. They then decided to let us go up, where it started happening again. It took us 2 hours to reach the 1st stop. We were going to go back down, but they told it would be fixed soon. We ate then started going to the 2nd stop. That took another hour. The entire ride back down was a bit faster - about an hour and 15 minutes. We were offered no refunds, no explanations, not even an apology.

Just had to get that out, it put a dent on an otherwise great trip. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.181.94.126 (talk • contribs) 03:16, April 19, 2006

Re: Just out of curiousity, who goes to Heavenly in the summer? I mean, it's a beautiful place and all, but it was designed with winter snowsports in mind, not summer sightseeing. Please don't say you hate the place until you have experienced everything it has to offer by going skiing or snowboarding there. As an avid skiier, in my opinion, it is the best ski resort in the US west of Vail.