Translated: the snowmaking budget is small. Let's be honest, labor costs when it comes to snowmaking is a very small component in comparison to the electricity and diesel costs. I don't expect Sunday River snowmaking budgets for Wildcat/Attitash, but with how slow Attitash was getting going and the amount of prime days Wildcat has skipped out on it's clear that they are not maximizing the resources they have and it shows.
Conditions at Wildcat were perfect for snowmaking today. Great temps, little wind, full pond. It would have been nice to see them blasting all day on Cheetah or Alley Cat to expand terrain for later in the week. The terrain they do have open was skiing absolutely terrible, so guns should be going full bore all night to resurface the problem areas - Middle Lynx, Catapult below the Lift Lion intersection and Bobcat were really bad. Sections of Polecat too. Not a single gun turned on. That's not a good plan for a holiday week when you're likely to see new customers who are ripe for first impressions.
Over at Attitash for the afternoon and there are limited guns going here too.
It's a shame. Both areas have the resources to do so much better, but they choose not to and likely lose a lot of business to competitors.
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It seems like Peaks is treating Wildcat just as another mountain to have on the pass, and they don't really expect half their passholders to actually go there. Also, remember that there is no condos at Wildcat. No condos=No reason in their mind to keep the snow quality good. They will still make money off the daytrippers without refreshing snow quality (the daytrippers will only realize it sucks after they buy a ticket). Basically to Peaks wildcat is useless except as another mountain to market on the pass and to boast how early the season starts by snowmaking on Lynx early season.