Recent content by danimals

https://openskimap.org/#2/40/-100 I can spend hours on this page. This site has links to each area's skimap.org page.

I moved on. I’ve been riding hunter since the late 90’s but this year was just a giant piece of concrete rebar piercing the coffin. Im sure there were great days on the hill, but each day I went was sub-par, even for this year. Terrible grooming, garbage snowmaking. Snow reports saying x y and z...

Is snowmax really toxic? i know a company doesnt want to ever admit that their product is bad but based on 20 minutes of internet research it seems to an irritant at high quantities. sounds more like vail doesnt want to pay for it.

Never thought i would hear about an expansion possibility at plattekill.

I live right across the river from philly, and it seems almost weekly we get a tornado warning, often with shelter in places notifications happening. two years back we had a tornado cause significant damage to the areas just south of me. I have footage from the security camera of a nearby...

I know the source isn't the best, but appears to be movement in some of the planned improvements. https://unofficialnetworks.com/2023/06/15/west-mountain-2025-expansion/

you must of missed the ten page discussion already ongoing about this.

I have skied the bowls, smuggs, Stowe and some other lines. I didn’t think about people riding the gondola watching people enter those zones. Does kind of sound like a disaster. Wonder if the addition of “western”style backcountry gates could help. Either way, I doubt the owner of smuggs or...

Just looked at the area on google maps. They make it sound like the pond is in some pristine wilderness area, yet it's sandwiched between ski trails with snowmaking infrastructure, and the sterling lifts all but goes right up to the pond. based on the renderings, you would see part of one tower...

I hate to be that guy but here goes: In the era of mega passes, this makes sense. It makes sense that vail will buy smuggs, and it makes sense that smuggs would want to sell. Most skiers want the high speed lift, high amenities of what Stowe offers. And those people are in their 30's now, and...

Blue mountain in PA installed a six pack last season, and nothing but trees and groundwork were completed by November. It didn't open for opening day, but it opened.

Subaru has been using Platty as a test course

This is true. Snowboarders were allowed to ride the double but not the single (which IMO is a design flaw if a boarder can de rope a chair lift because then its possible a skier could too). Some snowboarders approached Betsy in a grocery store. the interaction was filmed, and it really wasn't...

I hope they post the blackout dates for base pass before the renewal period ends

Same. I come from south jersey, and hunter always takes a bit longer than belleayre regardless of what maps says at the start. Especially on a pow day, the road to hunter can be pretty wild.