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The NEW Magic Mountain

prsboogie

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Finally got to Magic for a few runs on New Years Day, including a couple with JM. Wow they were so close to having some solid skiing over the holidays. The late sale - the last affect of the previous knucklehead regime - hurt for sure. But even with all that they offered some good, challenging, old school variable skiing with the most honest snow report around. Show Off was simply prestine, deep base and edge to edge carvable groomed skiing. If they had a couple more days the upper mountain would have been the same. As it was they did a good job connecting Upper Carpet to Medium and Up Your Sleeve, both of which had leftover powder shots plus the overnight 1-2" blown in (lower UYS was actually really sweet by any standard). Lower Carpet was groomed natural, thin but very skiable. Vertigo had shots to skiers left. Kinderspiel was also very nice and skied like a typical mid winter day.

Trick was trickier, as the snow that was made was variable up top, though still skiable and skill enhancing. Lower Trick had been groomed and skied very well if thin in spots. The section of Wand connecting to Show Off was in mid season form.

Per Dave, Red is "purring like a kitten" and certainly felt smooth to me. Apparently Black is close to being load tested, and the beginner handle tow was back running with several customers.

As for snowmaking, there were new HKD's everywhere- land guns and portable towers scattered about, with tower guns on Trick, Magic Carpet and Medium (and off in the distance on Tali). A couple of Ratniks too for good measure. According to JM they just got a 3rd leased compressor, so I would expect some serious snowmaking later this week when true arctic air returns.

Overall, the 'statistics' of skier visits and open terrain etc vastly underestimate the amount of progress. And I haven't even mentioned BLT....

If there's a picture here it's Up Your Sleeve.....

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UYS looks great and I can't wait to get up there in February! Would love earlier but we have a couple weekends planned and then our week in Bartlett end of January.


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Finally got to Magic for a few runs on New Years Day, including a couple with JM. Wow they were so close to having some solid skiing over the holidays. The late sale - the last affect of the previous knucklehead regime - hurt for sure. But even with all that they offered some good, challenging, old school variable skiing with the most honest snow report around. Show Off was simply prestine, deep base and edge to edge carvable groomed skiing. If they had a couple more days the upper mountain would have been the same. As it was they did a good job connecting Upper Carpet to Medium and Up Your Sleeve, both of which had leftover powder shots plus the overnight 1-2" blown in (lower UYS was actually really sweet by any standard). Lower Carpet was groomed natural, thin but very skiable. Vertigo had shots to skiers left. Kinderspiel was also very nice and skied like a typical mid winter day.

Trick was trickier, as the snow that was made was variable up top, though still skiable and skill enhancing. Lower Trick had been groomed and skied very well if thin in spots. The section of Wand connecting to Show Off was in mid season form.

Per Dave, Red is "purring like a kitten" and certainly felt smooth to me. Apparently Black is close to being load tested, and the beginner handle tow was back running with several customers.

As for snowmaking, there were new HKD's everywhere- land guns and portable towers scattered about, with tower guns on Trick, Magic Carpet and Medium (and off in the distance on Tali). A couple of Ratniks too for good measure. According to JM they just got a 3rd leased compressor, so I would expect some serious snowmaking later this week when true arctic air returns.

Overall, the 'statistics' of skier visits and open terrain etc vastly underestimate the amount of progress. And I haven't even mentioned BLT....

If there's a picture here it's Up Your Sleeve.....

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Wow the 2 inch refresh went a long way.


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keyser soze

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I'll be going there with my ski club in a couple of weeks. Very muck looking forward to it.
 

JoeB-Z

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Great reports from the last few posters. Using my Freedom Pass due to my Magic season pass I went to Dartmouth on Saturday. Wonderful on a natural snow base that was too low for the inversion plus new natural. I caught a snow snake in the last three turns of a tree run on the Holt's Ledge side and dislocated my damn right shoulder. First injury in 30 years. So if you see a grizzled old guy with lop sided pole plants next weekend at Magic, that's me.
 

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Speedy recoveries to MSB and Joe. Let's make 2017 a healthy ski season for every one. But, the BLT is not a bad place to heal...


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Speedy recoveries to MSB and Joe. Let's make 2017 a healthy ski season for every one. But, the BLT is not a bad place to heal...


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Just returned from the hand specialist, broke the 2nd and 3rd metacarpal in-line. Looks like there will be no need for surgery. Big props to Magic ski patrol who made me a splint asap and prevented any further damage!

If all goes well I should be back on the hill in six weeks. In the meantime, I'll be at the BLT.



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Just returned from the hand specialist, broke the 2nd and 3rd metacarpal in-line. Looks like there will be no need for surgery. Big props to Magic ski patrol who made me a splint asap and prevented any further damage!

If all goes well I should be back on the hill in six weeks. In the meantime, I'll be at the BLT.


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That is good news! Hand surgeries are hell.

Side note, talk about dodging a bullet. Instead of 1"+ of rain and starting from scratch, 2-4" of sloppy cement last night and the quick dropping temps make one hell of a needed base.
 

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That is good news! Hand surgeries are hell.

Side note, talk about dodging a bullet. Instead of 1"+ of rain and starting from scratch, 2-4" of sloppy cement last night and the quick dropping temps make one hell of a needed base. "


Yes that is good news. With a serious cold snap coming they should really be able to put the snowmaking investments to work. Just have to get a snow storm to deliver!
 
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That is good news! Hand surgeries are hell.

Side note, talk about dodging a bullet. Instead of 1"+ of rain and starting from scratch, 2-4" of sloppy cement last night and the quick dropping temps make one hell of a needed base.

I know, I broke it just above my old hardware from a 2011 surgery. Glad the weather is coming around!


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Just returned from the hand specialist, broke the 2nd and 3rd metacarpal in-line. Looks like there will be no need for surgery. Big props to Magic ski patrol who made me a splint asap and prevented any further damage!

If all goes well I should be back on the hill in six weeks. In the meantime, I'll be at the BLT.



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Glad you don't need surgery. Big props for planning on coming to BLT anyway as that temptation to get out there will be killer.

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That is good news! Hand surgeries are hell.

Side note, talk about dodging a bullet. Instead of 1"+ of rain and starting from scratch, 2-4" of sloppy cement last night and the quick dropping temps make one hell of a needed base.
It was a blessing! That cement should do a nice job of locking the work road rocks in place.

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My understanding is that the load test went well. It was running full speed (not loading) on Sunday. Fingers crossed it's up and operational in the very near future.

From the website..."As many people noticed this past weekend, we did perform some load-testing on the Black Chair. While all of the considerable planned repairs to the grips and bullwheels are all working well, new and different issues have arisen from the load-testing that need attention which our chairlift contractors and employees are now working on. Safety and reliability are the watch words for us bringing back this chair to operation. We are working it hard and in detail--hopefully we will be bringing Black back within the next couple of weeks."

Hopefully Mother Nature will get on board. I'd love to see the hill start to get some big snow just as the Black Chair comes on line.


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From the website..."As many people noticed this past weekend, we did perform some load-testing on the Black Chair. While all of the considerable planned repairs to the grips and bullwheels are all working well, new and different issues have arisen from the load-testing that need attention which our chairlift contractors and employees are now working on. Safety and reliability are the watch words for us bringing back this chair to operation. We are working it hard and in detail--hopefully we will be bringing Black back within the next couple of weeks."

Hopefully Mother Nature will get on board. I'd love to see the hill start to get some big snow just as the Black Chair comes on line.


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That's exactly what Geoff and crew need - a major pattern change with a couple of dumps right along with the Black Chair being certified and then an awesome Presidents week to make everyone forget about the January thaw........
 
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That's exactly what Geoff and crew need - a major pattern change with a couple of dumps right along with the Black Chair being certified and then an awesome Presidents week to make everyone forget about the January thaw........

Yes like the 13/14 season. That started terribly but from president's day weekend onward was great.


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