Sunday River 22-23

[deadheadskier]

I get that the Locke download situation sucks, but I also think Jordan has too much terrain to cover for day 1. Between that, no lodge, crappy parking location and the longer drive over to Jordan, it just makes little sense to me to have the season start over there.

 

[machski]

I get that the Locke download situation sucks, but I also think Jordan has too much terrain to cover for day 1. Between that, no lodge, crappy parking location and the longer drive over to Jordan, it just makes little sense to me to have the season start over there.

I think if they want to be in the first to open race, they have no choice other than Locke. Gun spacing is far too wide in Jordan for a rapid assault and open, not to mention the length of runs. However, they will pivot once Jordan is ready, put public over there and racers on Locke. But if you saw this morning, they already started making snow on lower DD and AmEx. This season it looks like they will have temps on their side, so a high chance the West and East are linked across Aurora and Spruce by Thanksgiving weekend. That has been the goal since the snow making upgrades have been put in.

 

[thebigo]

few pictures from today

 

[machski]

Did you adventure ski down below the midstation?

 

[machski]

Jordan opens Friday with all three primary runs open. Rogue and Lolla will be fully groomed, Excalibur will be whale skiing.

 

[kbroderick]

Jordan opens Friday with all three primary runs open. Rogue and Lolla will be fully groomed, Excalibur will be whale skiing.

Rogue was 10/10 first thing and still pretty darn good after that; I don't know if it was the timing of the groom or the time they spent, but the surface was incredible. Excalibur was really fun adventure skiing. I went out thinking I'd grab a few runs to encourage my legs to be ready for more volume in December, and I ended up with 10.

 

[machski]

They are pushing hard. By Thanksgiving it looks at a minimum it will be interconnected from Jordan to Locke and Barker. Spruce Triple may only serve the amount interconnection if temps don't cooperate as I do not think they have done anything more off the top of that than Sirius to this point.