Loon South Peak Expansion

[urungus]

Sunset and the summit cafe deck are the only places where you can get a good look at the entire pond.

Thanks for the tip @127y … While checking out the view from the summit cafe deck yesterday I noticed a group of skiers on the pond. A ski patroller told me there is a tradition that once a year this group will make a happy face in the pond with their tracks and I just happened to be there on the right day !






Later in the day I returned to see the completed image:



It’s a little hard to make out, but at the top of the circle, they made a set of googles, then beneath that the nose and then the smiling mouth. Please post if you have a better picture of the final image (or images from previous years), I couldn’t find anything on Loons official channels.

 

[1dog]

Thanks for the tip @127y … While checking out the view from the summit cafe deck yesterday I noticed a group of skiers on the pond. A ski patroller told me there is a tradition that once a year this group will make a happy face in the pond with their tracks and I just happened to be there on the right day !

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Later in the day I returned to see the completed image:

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It’s a little hard to make out, but at the top of the circle, they made a set of googles, then beneath that the nose and then the smiling mouth. Please post if you have a better picture of the final image (or images from previous years), I couldn’t find anything on Loons official channels.

Thats cool - you need to ski with a rather expensive drone ( this way you can have it follow you down) I'm sure they are not allowed at ski areas but these are cool:

 

[Smellytele]

Thats cool - you need to ski with a rather expensive drone ( this way you can have it follow you down) I'm sure they are not allowed at ski areas but these are cool:

Saw a drone following someone down a trail at pats peak a month or so ago. It was a green trail.

 

[machski]

I thought the new Loon run/owned base lodge would be built over at the base of the Timbertown Lift. This may change with the housing being propsed over there along with the trail expansion. Trail expansion and lift I would assume some of that would be on Forest Service land, so approvals may take a few years. Add in Boynes financal suprises over the last few years, who knows when this will take place. I rode the Timbertown lift yesterda and very few over there. It looks like at least one new house is now occupied, could be why the lift is now open 7 days a week. Snow was very good. A small storm may add to that tonight,

Finally got into Timbertown and rode the lift. That is the perfect beginner pod. Plunk a lodge down, set up a few progression carpets on its own run and this area would be one of the best learning areas in NE. If they do build another South sized pod west of this, they had better cut routes around T-Town to preserve the learning pod feel and protection from high speed connections

That said, researching on South Mountain Resort's site, sounds like they intend to build a base village down at the bottom of Timbertown and the Transfer Gondola will be open to the public to link the base village with the Mill, town and River's Edge. From the sounds of it, that will be a three way partnership with South Mountain, River's Edge and the Mountain.

 

[oldfartrider]

Thats cool - you need to ski with a rather expensive drone ( this way you can have it follow you down) I'm sure they are not allowed at ski areas but these are cool:

I saw a drone following someone at Bolton yesterday

 

[127y]

Not sure if it has been mentioned but it seems the Little Sister double is dead. Has not ran once this year or last year since they got rid of tubing so I guess the mountain decided it wasn’t worth running.

 

[machski]

Not sure if it has been mentioned but it seems the Little Sister double is dead. Has not ran once this year or last year since they got rid of tubing so I guess the mountain decided it wasn’t worth running.

So what, it serves two trails (Little Sister and the bottom of Seven Brothers. They are now running Timbertown 7 days a week. If it's staffing that or little sister, I'// take Timbertown.

 

[skef]

Important new documentary:

 

[127y]

Important new documentary:

He’s not wrong, maybe a little over exaggerated but not wrong.

 

[machski]

Super nice spring day today but man does this resort need to let a snowmaking trail or 2 go ungroomed. Especially in the spring. Groomers are nice but just that all day gets pretty boring.

 

[thebigo]

Super nice spring day today but man does this resort need to let a snowmaking trail or 2 go ungroomed. Especially in the spring. Groomers are nice but just that all day gets pretty boring.

There is a brutal monsoon underway in the western whites. Grooming gives snow a better chance at survival this time of year.

 

[machski]

There is a brutal monsoon underway in the western whites. Grooming gives snow a better chance at survival this time of year.

Please, this isn't limited to late season at Loon. It is a groomers paradise all year round if we don't get the natural runs in play.

 

[bigbob]

Please, this isn't limited to late season at Loon. It is a groomers paradise all year round if we don't get the natural runs in play.

Earlier in the season they would not groom some of the trail edges and let them bump up. Example would be skiersright on lower Flume. I was there yesterday and if it wasn't groomed, it was closed. And the groom took place before it froze, so chatter roy surface. They did do a second pass on some trails, which produced death cookies. so no win situation no matter what they did. It was skiable, but the wind picked up after lunch and stripped the frozed granular off some of the more exposed trails. Not a bad day, no lines, bright sunshine started around 10 AM and empty trails. Parking lot was full between the lodges however. Earlier in the week the report said South Peak would be open Friday, but that changed and was closed.