Speaking of Lame Ski Sites. . .

Try checking out the mountain maps for Keystone:

http://vail.instawatch.com/Key0405Wi...r_content.html

Can any normal person actually use things like this?

On 2004-11-20, vbenares penned:
Try checking out the mountain maps for Keystone:

http://vail.instawatch.com/Key0405Wi...r_content.html

Can any normal person actually use things like this?


I doubt I'm normal, but I sure can't.

I ended up having to go to the resort and get a trail map directly =P

If that's not convenient for you, perhaps I can find last year's map and mail
it to you? Or even this year's, once I go there.

--
monique

I think it's pretty cool. Since the actual trail map is so huge, you really
can't get a readable version on the screen that gives you the full
perspective, so you just find where you want to go and used the arrows and
+/- keys to zoom in.

Unfortunately, I can't verify that it doesn't take a rocket scientist, since
I am a rocket scientist of sorts.... :-)

- Steve

"vbenares" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Try checking out the mountain maps for Keystone:

http://vail.instawatch.com/Key0405Wi...r_content.html

Can any normal person actually use things like this?

Why not have a link to a color pdf that can be printed?


On 11/20/2004 11:45 AM, Steve FZ1 wrote:
I think it's pretty cool. Since the actual trail map is so huge, you really
can't get a readable version on the screen that gives you the full
perspective, so you just find where you want to go and used the arrows and
+/- keys to zoom in.

Unfortunately, I can't verify that it doesn't take a rocket scientist, since
I am a rocket scientist of sorts.... :-)

- Steve

"vbenares" wrote in message
hlink.net...

Try checking out the mountain maps for Keystone:

http://vail.instawatch.com/Key0405Wi...r_content.html

Can any normal person actually use things like this?

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:25:42 -0600, wrote:

Why not have a link to a color pdf that can be printed?


Most folks would print it on an inkjet. Then the map would get wet
and run, the skier would get lost and either wind up on a slope that's
beyond his skill and get hurt, or have to overnight in a snowdrift and
lose a few toes to frostbite. Either one is bad for the resort's
reputation, so skier visits would go down, putting Keystone and
competing hills into a death-spiral of declining ticket prices that
would ultimately bankrupt a large swath of the industry.

Best to stick with the printed glossies they give out for free at the
hills, really.

bw

We went to Breck instead, since we couldn't figure out how large an area
was actually open at Keystone.

vbenares wrote:
Try checking out the mountain maps for Keystone:

http://vail.instawatch.com/Key0405Wi...r_content.html

Can any normal person actually use things like this?

vbenares wrote in news:J9xnd.30436$KJ6.19598
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Try checking out the mountain maps for Keystone:

http://vail.instawatch.com/Key0405Wi...r_content.html

Can any normal person actually use things like this?


I find it pretty easy to use myself.

Chuck wrote:
vbenares wrote in news:J9xnd.30436$KJ6.19598
@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net:


Try checking out the mountain maps for Keystone:

http://vail.instawatch.com/Key0405Wi...r_content.html

Can any normal person actually use things like this?



I find it pretty easy to use myself.

I found that I could zoom in, but never zoom out. Was that just me?

--
Mary Malmros
Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug.

Mary Malmros wrote:
Chuck wrote:

vbenares wrote in news:J9xnd.30436$KJ6.19598
@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net:


Try checking out the mountain maps for Keystone:

http://vail.instawatch.com/Key0405Wi...r_content.html

Can any normal person actually use things like this?



I find it pretty easy to use myself.


I found that I could zoom in, but never zoom out. Was that just me?


I didn't have any problems with navigating the map. Maybe older software
can't handle it?

Janet

vbenares wrote:
Try checking out the mountain maps for Keystone:

http://vail.instawatch.com/Key0405Wi...r_content.html

Can any normal person actually use things like this?


I can zoom in but cannot expand the map "window" - it occupies just a
bit more than a quarter of my screen with the rest being white. And by
the time I can read the names of the runs, there is no way to see where
the run starts and/or where it ends - that's kind of a big reason to use
a map.

What's wrong with a nice static jpg - at least as an option?