drjeff
Well-known member
What a difference 60+ hours of full tilt snowmaking makes!!!
Mount Snow fired up there system full bore on New Years Eve afternoon, and the results have been impressive!! They were able to open Plummet and River Run on the Northface on Saturday AM, Nitro at Carinthia Saturday AM, Ridge mid morning on Saturday (had to close it back down early afternoon on Saturday because of a treacherous slick spot that needed more snowmaking and grooming before it reopened Sunday AM) and Snowdance mid morning on Saturday.
The guns have already moved over to Chute on the Northface, and Lodge/Exhibition on the main face, with Ego Alley and Freefall on deck soon. Nitro is likely going to be under the fan guns until Tuesday or Wednesday when they shut them (and Nitro) down for a full park build for next Saturday - I'd expect that Mineshaft and Inferno go under the guns once the Nitro run is done!
Crowds were light today, and it was nice to have Snowdance as an ungroomed mogul run filled with lots of low angle, soft bumps. Plummet had plenty of irregularly shaped and spaced stiffer bumps as the manmade snow set up a bit overnight. Ridge was fun corduroy that started to bump up a bit as the day went on, and Nitro was just covered in soft, creamy whales (a couple of sticky whales too) that was worth 9 laps on it for me today!!
Cascade/Canyon and Long John/Deer run, weren't bad, but after literally skiing the combo of those 2 runs over 150 times this season already, I've had enough of them for a while!!
Mount Snow is flexing its snowmaking firepower right now, and it even surprised me a bit when I got back to my condo after and found the temp on my digital thermometer on this overcast day was reading 30.7 degrees at 3PM and they hadn't scaled back snowmaking operations at all!
Mount Snow fired up there system full bore on New Years Eve afternoon, and the results have been impressive!! They were able to open Plummet and River Run on the Northface on Saturday AM, Nitro at Carinthia Saturday AM, Ridge mid morning on Saturday (had to close it back down early afternoon on Saturday because of a treacherous slick spot that needed more snowmaking and grooming before it reopened Sunday AM) and Snowdance mid morning on Saturday.
The guns have already moved over to Chute on the Northface, and Lodge/Exhibition on the main face, with Ego Alley and Freefall on deck soon. Nitro is likely going to be under the fan guns until Tuesday or Wednesday when they shut them (and Nitro) down for a full park build for next Saturday - I'd expect that Mineshaft and Inferno go under the guns once the Nitro run is done!
Crowds were light today, and it was nice to have Snowdance as an ungroomed mogul run filled with lots of low angle, soft bumps. Plummet had plenty of irregularly shaped and spaced stiffer bumps as the manmade snow set up a bit overnight. Ridge was fun corduroy that started to bump up a bit as the day went on, and Nitro was just covered in soft, creamy whales (a couple of sticky whales too) that was worth 9 laps on it for me today!!
Cascade/Canyon and Long John/Deer run, weren't bad, but after literally skiing the combo of those 2 runs over 150 times this season already, I've had enough of them for a while!!
Mount Snow is flexing its snowmaking firepower right now, and it even surprised me a bit when I got back to my condo after and found the temp on my digital thermometer on this overcast day was reading 30.7 degrees at 3PM and they hadn't scaled back snowmaking operations at all!
