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Have you gone back to the Wachusett shop and asked for an adjustment ? I bought my last pair of boots at the highly-rated Nick’s near Mount Snow and couldn’t be happier. As I was breaking them in, I brought the new boots back a couple times for some free minor adjustments where the boots were a...

Thanks for the clarification … I was thinking about reservations to ski (like Loon and Windham) but hadn’t considered parking.

Of Alterra-owned resorts, only Deer Valley currently requires reservations, correct ?

If Alterra acquired POWDR or even just Killington, I would imagine they would make it unlimited on the full IKON pass ? Would be great not to have to manage my days so carefully over their long season. Likely to increase crowding though at start and end of season when they are the only game in...

The Update does mention “snowmaking projects over the off-season”

What was the OZ screw up ? Is it all the dead trees ?

Is construction actually commencing, or did Les just hire a couple of guys to look around for a few hours for marketing purposes ?

He was previously GM of Tenney from 2002-2004, so he does have at least a few years of ski area management background: https://www.saminfo.com/news/sam-headline-news/10399-extreme-skier-dan-egan-named-gm-of-reimagined-tenney-mountain

Photo by Jamie Walter @ Sugarloaf

New England Ski History is also a good source. For example, here is their page for Magic which contains maps not found on skimap.org such as 1978-79 https://www.newenglandskihistory.com/maps/mapsbyarea.php?filename=magicmtn&state=vt

Spain 2026 or Australia 2028 / 2030 could be good, stable counties known for sunny skies

Agreed … but what if you spend big bucks for an overseas trip with jacked-up hotel costs because of the eclipse, and then it is cloudy and/or rainy at the time of the eclipse ? Similar to planning a ski trip in advance, you can pick the spot along the line of totality that has the best average...

Don’t see a sign like this too often … Last chair 3:00, Final chair 5:00

Moderate traffic heading north on I91 this morning but no backups. Plenty of space still left in Burke Parking lot as of now