Mount Snow 11/10-11/11....

[motionxxusxx]

anyone know when the will get their live cams up and running. Dueing the passholder meeting, they mentioned that these cams would go live soon.

 

[Greg]

With the forecast..maybe there'll be an extra trail open for Sunday and Monday...

Do you think Mount Snow will announce their opening on Thursday???

It's too early to speculate, but you can't ask for a much better forecast than this:

Tonight: A slight chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. West wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Wednesday: A chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 34. West wind between 10 and 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 20. West wind between 3 and 11 mph.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 34. Calm wind becoming west between 4 and 7 mph.

Thursday Night: A slight chance of light snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 20. Light north wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Friday: A chance of snow, mixing with rain after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Friday Night: A chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 22. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 35.

Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 21.

Veterans Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 37.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 24.

Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 40.

That's significantly better than the last time I looked. There are some stretches in there where they can go around the clock, at least at the summit. Trust me; I will get early word and you all will know when I know.

The issue is for Snow that they have limited water. The fans will pump out a lot snow, but suck Snow Lake down pretty quick. If they're spinning fans on the Canyon/Standard line as well as the terrain park on Carinthia, it doesn't leave a lot of water for much else.

If they can do it, they'll go with River Run and then Chute on TNF. They opened Chute early last year, but that was with downloading on the Canyon quad. They didn't have the chance make an lower elevation snow except for Launch Pad. The fan guns changes this.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I need to look at a trail map for Mount Snow..

 

[drjeff]

It's too early to speculate, but you can't ask for a much better forecast than this:



That's significantly better than the last time I looked. There are some stretches in there where they can go around the clock, at least at the summit. Trust me; I will get early word and you all will know when I know.

The issue is for Snow that they have limited water. The fans will pump out a lot snow, but suck Snow Lake down pretty quick. If they're spinning fans on the Canyon/Standard line as well as the terrain park on Carinthia, it doesn't leave a lot of water for much else.

If they can do it, they'll go with River Run and then Chute on TNF. They opened Chute early last year, but that was with downloading on the Canyon quad. They didn't have the chance make an lower elevation snow except for Launch Pad. The fan guns changes this.

Here's the afternoon snowmaking plan update:
"Here’s the plan: tonight we light up the fan guns on Upper Canyon, Canyon, Standard, Launch Pad, Long John, Nugget and, oh yes… our new terrain park Vermontster. Depending on how well the weather cooperates, we may even blow on Snowdance and River Run later this week."

I'd bet that you see Snowdance and maybe even Stugger's Chute before the Northface gets going, afterall this way they can show off what the fan guns can do early on and then use that to build word of mouth repeat business throughout the season. I'd guess that riverrun and the part of long john that they're scheduled to work on will have the high priority air/water gun status to show off the new truckload of SMI Viking tower guns that you can see in the snowblog photos that arrived last week. Bottomline, especially through x-mas week Mount Snow will be big about marketing the new stuff from fan guns to different opening strategies to the updated base area facilities to show the customers how they're different and better now