I’m ok with solid green opening. Tough weather pattern.
Have they stated one plan vs other yet?
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Have they stated one plan vs other yet?
Newpylong
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Unless weather turns for the better IMO there aren't enough snowmaking hours for even a Green opening any time soon. A couple short windows that dip into the low 20s later this week and that's it. The rest is junk, but hopefully that changes.
slatham
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Planned opening day is the 15th, so 10 days. 12 to the weekend.
Forecast model mayhem is causing even the medium range to be in question. For instance Saturday at 4am Euro has Rutland at 23, GFS 37! That is THiS coming Saturday, not the 17th! This is all caused by the long awaited but delayed pattern change that the models have been having trouble with. Pro meteorologists think the pattern does change and it gets colder and snowier, maybe starting this weekend. But jury is still out…..
One reason they may go for summit is because they may get windows up top while lower mountain temps are marginal, so better to make snow only up top than not at all. Obviously either way they need good temps down low. But I agree that if time is short and temps are good down low, focusing on Wand to Showoff off of Green makes sense.
Fingers crossed on pattern change. Some scenarios if it were to happen are rather fun……
Forecast model mayhem is causing even the medium range to be in question. For instance Saturday at 4am Euro has Rutland at 23, GFS 37! That is THiS coming Saturday, not the 17th! This is all caused by the long awaited but delayed pattern change that the models have been having trouble with. Pro meteorologists think the pattern does change and it gets colder and snowier, maybe starting this weekend. But jury is still out…..
One reason they may go for summit is because they may get windows up top while lower mountain temps are marginal, so better to make snow only up top than not at all. Obviously either way they need good temps down low. But I agree that if time is short and temps are good down low, focusing on Wand to Showoff off of Green makes sense.
Fingers crossed on pattern change. Some scenarios if it were to happen are rather fun……
KustyTheKlown
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yea, single chair weather blog was getting super excited about blocking over Greenland forcing storms to stall over the northeast. but so far we just have today and tomorrow rain sitting on us.
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Personally, if I was calling it I'd go for Green to Showoff first, but with rats up top to prep for a Plan B of Trick to Showoff. That's about the least snow possible to get both chairs viable, it lets you run a bunch of low E towers on middle/lower Trick potentially plus your portable low E and fans on Showoff as the weather improves, and if you end up not getting temps down low one day you just keep running the top of Carpet and Trick.
Just go out willing to shut off any Trick/Summit guns you need to for air to connect Green to Showoff to Green loading area, since you have to have that to open either option.
Just go out willing to shut off any Trick/Summit guns you need to for air to connect Green to Showoff to Green loading area, since you have to have that to open either option.
NYDB
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Looks like about 48 hours of snowmaking temps from now until 15th. Wand To show off is about all they’ll be able to get I would think, if they are even able to open.
would love to see a route from the summit but I don’t think that’s possible with the current forecast.
would love to see a route from the summit but I don’t think that’s possible with the current forecast.
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Well according to their alpine update they can't make snow anyway because the pipe from pond to pumphouse is partially plugged, so the temperatures are a moot point.
In other good news, Pfister has apparently stopped returning their calls.
In other good news, Pfister has apparently stopped returning their calls.
NYDB
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Yeah wtf? I doubt pfister gives a shit but it seems super unprofessional to post that on your website. Frustration getting the best of them.
NYDB
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Yikes. Anyone hear anything about how the welding on the red chairs is going?
Agreed...the right way to say this would have been something more along the lines of "As for the quad, we're waiting to hear back from Pfister on a date when they will be able to resume working on it".
Newpylong
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That is bad... on the language and the pond.
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Hugh Conway is never wrong.
Fact.
Fact.
jimmywilson69
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wow... I guess their trying to show their faithful they are equally as frustrated but that is closed door shit not for public consumption.
drjeff
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My hunch is that no news likley isn't good news on that front all things considered.
Throwing a line in like "the the work on the Red is done and it will be ready to spin when the snow is there", or something similar would of been atleast something postive ops wise in that blog
With the snowmaking pipe feed from the pond, since based on pcitures I have seen posted, it doesn't seem like some large branch would of been close enough to the pond to be drawn into the feeder pipe, so I am wondering if it's something like not letting the soil in the base of the pond settle enough before filling and thus a bunch of mud got drawn into the pipe and created an obstruction, or maybe some rocks that may have been placed on the base on the pond near the intake were drawn into the pipe and created the obstruction?
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