slatham
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Bromley. Firm and fast. Unfortunately none of the golden triangle resurface like Mt Snow does.
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Stratton Thread
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drjeff
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Just drove through a fairly decent snow band from Greenfield, MA all the way up to my condo at Mount Snow. Probably closing in on 2" so far. Winds are howling, and it almost looks like there's night skiing at Mount Snow tonight with all of the fan guns they have running. My son, who was out coaching the U14 race athletes today, said the surface was anywhere from "racer firm" to some nice, dry man made snow depending on where on the hill he was and the relation to the wind angle
KustyTheKlown
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1-2” of dust on crust but I’ve certainly skied much much worse snow
jaytrem
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Oddly enough I think Mount Snow skied better yesterday than today with the extra 3 inches. The fresh snowmaking was nice, not so much after they groomed it out.
Hastur
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golden T rumorville- So I heard that Strattons top 2 snowmakers moved onto bromley last offseason. And the new guys blew the pipe on blackbear and another spot since they don’t know what they are doing. Among other mishaps.
slatham
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Lots of truth in that rumor……..
Newpylong
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Hot charging can be very bad if you don't know what you're doing...
KustyTheKlown
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Closed things skiing well. Lower lifeline, dancing bear into the steep thing above snow bowl. Very nice. Skiers right of standard looks like it will ski great too. Stratton still very conservative about dropping rope
Edit - standard poach prob run of season so far. The New Year’s Eve dump sitting untouched the whole way down.
Edit - standard poach prob run of season so far. The New Year’s Eve dump sitting untouched the whole way down.
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ColdRain&Snow
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I’m digging in for the winter starting this rainy weekend, don’t want to come home unless absolutely necessary. Matt Jones is speaking at our hoa meeting, so maybe he addresses the snowmaking issues. It looks like they’ve got things going pretty good.
Operations Update: Snowmaking has been extra active over the past 48 hours, concentrating efforts on Stevek, World Cup, Churchill Downs, Lower Middlebrook, Upper Down Easter, Black Bear, Janeway Junction, Upper and Lower West Meadow, Lower Kidderbrook, Daniel Webster, Big Ben, Upper and Lower East Meadow, and Lower Wanderer. Forecasted warmer temperatures and the chance of rain will temporarily put guns on hold mid-week through this coming weekend. Once cold temperatures return, snowmaking will resume with the next round targeting Upper and Lower East Meadow, Bear Down, Upper Kidderbrook, Free Fall, Upper Standard, Rime Line, Supertrail and Big Ben. A brief warm-up is nothing new for our Operations Team, who will continue working around the clock to deliver the best possible conditions. Be sure to stay tuned to the Mountain Report for more snowmaking and operational updates to come.
Operations Update: Snowmaking has been extra active over the past 48 hours, concentrating efforts on Stevek, World Cup, Churchill Downs, Lower Middlebrook, Upper Down Easter, Black Bear, Janeway Junction, Upper and Lower West Meadow, Lower Kidderbrook, Daniel Webster, Big Ben, Upper and Lower East Meadow, and Lower Wanderer. Forecasted warmer temperatures and the chance of rain will temporarily put guns on hold mid-week through this coming weekend. Once cold temperatures return, snowmaking will resume with the next round targeting Upper and Lower East Meadow, Bear Down, Upper Kidderbrook, Free Fall, Upper Standard, Rime Line, Supertrail and Big Ben. A brief warm-up is nothing new for our Operations Team, who will continue working around the clock to deliver the best possible conditions. Be sure to stay tuned to the Mountain Report for more snowmaking and operational updates to come.
Newpylong
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Where/what is SteveK?
Also when did they give up making snow on Liftline?
Also when did they give up making snow on Liftline?
Stevek is a short piece of trail, basically the connection from Drifter to World Cup. Can't remember snowmaking on Liftline since the Snowbowl Express went in.
urungus
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urungus
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urungus
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But I guess that wouldn’t be right if they are making snow on it
ColdRain&Snow
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ColdRain&Snow
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Tried to do the afternoon shift. Skied across the lower mountain, but my ski buddy wanted to hit the eject button early. Lower Downeaster was like a luge run, really woke me up. Not sure if the upper mountain was worth it but it’s gonna be two cars going forward.
Hastur
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this little storm blew up quick.
ColdRain&Snow
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Great day today, mountain report says ten inches last three days, snowed pretty much not stop for two days while I was on blackout walkabout, and no wind so super long weekend. 
Got to meet Mr Matt Jones and Mr Kevin Booth at our hoa meeting, some takeaways include:
No tamarack replacement this summer.
They’re looking at ways to create exclu$ive spaces for premium fees, the stratton mountain club and its six figure entry fee has a waiting list in the hundreds. The “discount space” will be 10k entry and 4500/year. They want a high end hotel somewhere but maybe not at the sunbowl as in the master plan. The black bear lodge and the old employee housing next to it may be the site.
They own a lot of land around the sunbowl for development, and plan to develop it.
They made it clear getting more fat wallets on their property, on the weekends to a degree but definitely during the week. They say they turn away a lot of group/conference/wedding business.
The ikon pricing is to blame for the high priced everything else.
Stratton has invested heavily in employee housing, primarily in Manchester but also Londonderry. They’ve bought several rundown motels, gutted and rebuilt. They claim staffing shortfalls are primarily from trying to coordinate foreign worker arrivals.
The ursa rebuild was dopp and had hiccups last year, the Amex rebuild was alterra lift people from several resorts and hasn’t had the break in problems.
They are well aware of that Facebook post and dismissed it as internet nonsense from someone they claim they’ve fired twice, and the December snowmaking shutdown/pipe repair work was just old pipe failing. There’s a main water pipe to the sunbowl along the home run trail, the pipe has breaks regularly( multiple/yr) and is apparently undersized for the current use, definitely for future use, so it’ll be replaced with larger diameter pipe when they add snowmaking to the remaining sunbowl trails.
It also sounded like all of the water pipes run in loops ending between the stratton mountain club and gondola base, with some type of cap to allow water flow to keep pipes from freezing. Mr Booth implied it’s a mostly unmapped/undocumented area, and the caps have to be adjusted periodically but he kinda gave the impression the snowmaking snafu in December was related to these pipe ends.
Got to meet Mr Matt Jones and Mr Kevin Booth at our hoa meeting, some takeaways include:
No tamarack replacement this summer.
They’re looking at ways to create exclu$ive spaces for premium fees, the stratton mountain club and its six figure entry fee has a waiting list in the hundreds. The “discount space” will be 10k entry and 4500/year. They want a high end hotel somewhere but maybe not at the sunbowl as in the master plan. The black bear lodge and the old employee housing next to it may be the site.
They own a lot of land around the sunbowl for development, and plan to develop it.
They made it clear getting more fat wallets on their property, on the weekends to a degree but definitely during the week. They say they turn away a lot of group/conference/wedding business.
The ikon pricing is to blame for the high priced everything else.
Stratton has invested heavily in employee housing, primarily in Manchester but also Londonderry. They’ve bought several rundown motels, gutted and rebuilt. They claim staffing shortfalls are primarily from trying to coordinate foreign worker arrivals.
The ursa rebuild was dopp and had hiccups last year, the Amex rebuild was alterra lift people from several resorts and hasn’t had the break in problems.
They are well aware of that Facebook post and dismissed it as internet nonsense from someone they claim they’ve fired twice, and the December snowmaking shutdown/pipe repair work was just old pipe failing. There’s a main water pipe to the sunbowl along the home run trail, the pipe has breaks regularly( multiple/yr) and is apparently undersized for the current use, definitely for future use, so it’ll be replaced with larger diameter pipe when they add snowmaking to the remaining sunbowl trails.
It also sounded like all of the water pipes run in loops ending between the stratton mountain club and gondola base, with some type of cap to allow water flow to keep pipes from freezing. Mr Booth implied it’s a mostly unmapped/undocumented area, and the caps have to be adjusted periodically but he kinda gave the impression the snowmaking snafu in December was related to these pipe ends.
slatham
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Old pipe, disgruntled former employee, no management issues = corporate PR BS.
