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Resort Improvements 2015

SIKSKIER

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The plan is to cut more slope to the right of the old t bar line. It looks like they left tree islands on the Facebook and just cleared the under growth.

Correct.You can see the island on the plan and clearly see how much further up they will be cutting if you compare my GE pic to this one.
 

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Puck it

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Correct.You can see the island on the plan and clearly see how much further up they will be cutting if you compare my GE pic to this one.

Did you look at the Facebook page for the Mittersill Improvements? One pic shows the old snowmaking ppes.
 
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xwhaler

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Okemo is putting in the first of 2 quad chairs in timber creek this summer plus upgrading the chairs on Jackson gore express to bubbles (not sure if they will be heated but orange canopies to match)

Ugh, not good.....now the JG lift probably gets more traffic due to the novelty of the bubble chair. Currently that is my favorite pod on the mtn to lap and almost never has lines.
 

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Believe it or not some of the first systems had aluminum piping. Ask Killington how that worked out for them.....
 

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So 1 decent looking trail and 4 others you would miss if you blinked?

Has anyone built a decently designed expansion pod recently?

Burnt Ridge at Gore has potential if built out more.
 

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So 1 decent looking trail and 4 others you would miss if you blinked?

Has anyone built a decently designed expansion pod recently?

Burnt Ridge at Gore has potential if built out more.

South Peak at Loon is probably the best new pod in new England built as of late. It is well laid out for cruising with no intersections. Jackson Gore at Okemo is ok as well.
 

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A minute from the Alta exit off the I-15!
So 1 decent looking trail and 4 others you would miss if you blinked?

Has anyone built a decently designed expansion pod recently?

Burnt Ridge at Gore has potential if built out more.

South Peak at Loon is the only good pod. A quiet pod opposite of the madhouse on the other side. I was able to ski it in 2011. Since then they've added trails and I've wanted to go back.

Jackson Gore is horrible, imo. There's too much traffic on Limelight with everyone coming from the Okemo side. Typically it's just Quantum Leap, Sunset, and Tuckered Out that get snowmaking and grooming, too little terrain for a hsq. The intersection between Okemo and Jackson Gore is one of the most dangerous in Vermont.

I'm being harsh because you'd think after 60 years the ski industry would know how to design a good trail pod.
 

deadheadskier

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Wildcat has only commented that they are working with the US Forrest service to try and develop more tree skiing. They're looking to hire full time seasonal employees to help with this. I asked if any of this would occur on the upper mountain and was told no, lower mountain only due to Bicknell's Thrush habitat.

I hate that god damned bird.
 

drjeff

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Wildcat has only commented that they are working with the US Forrest service to try and develop more tree skiing. They're looking to hire full time seasonal employees to help with this. I asked if any of this would occur on the upper mountain and was told no, lower mountain only due to Bicknell's Thrush habitat.

I hate that god damned bird.

If only "climate change" would cause that thing to have its habit move far away!! ;) :lol:
 

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Wildcat has only commented that they are working with the US Forrest service to try and develop more tree skiing. They're looking to hire full time seasonal employees to help with this. I asked if any of this would occur on the upper mountain and was told no, lower mountain only due to Bicknell's Thrush habitat.

I hate that god damned bird.
You sound like the surf fishermen along the east coast who hate Piping Plovers because they close beach access during the summer due their babies. Don't hurt striped bass though, that's sacrilege.
 

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You sound like the surf fishermen along the east coast who hate Piping Plovers because they close beach access during the summer due their babies. Don't hurt striped bass though, that's sacrilege.

I hate both of those birds.


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dlague

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Wildcat has only commented that they are working with the US Forrest service to try and develop more tree skiing. They're looking to hire full time seasonal employees to help with this. I asked if any of this would occur on the upper mountain and was told no, lower mountain only due to Bicknell's Thrush habitat.

I hate that god damned bird.

if that bird is so rare then why the heck does it show up every where?
 
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