jaytrem
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I suspect it will be pretty quiet on Wed/Thur.
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2016-2017 Resort Opening Dates
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I suspect it will be pretty quiet on Wed/Thur.
I am not a huge fan of the place, but there's a chance I will be there. Seems like it will be a lot better than your standard Black Friday WROD.
4aprice
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No way for this weekend. I was looking at the 3rd & 4th, I think they can do it, but a person I know in management said on Saturday, probably the 9th. I don''t know if he was just downplaying it or what, they were making snow on Honeymoon Lane all day today and they certainly have the system to get it up and going fast.
2 week forecast that JB was showing was showing cold and some snow for PA while NNE looked to get some good snow. December is a very busy time of the year for me, maybe I can get a day or 2 up north, but I really hope we can get local skiing going fast this year.
Alex
Lake Hopatcong, NJ
Any regular Mount Snow skiers been there for opening day? I don't know what to expect.
From my experience elsewhere: Sunday River has been a zoo for a mid-week or weekend opening day. Wildcat and Bretton Woods are always empty, even on a weekend opening day.
sull1102
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Weekday+possibly a good amount of terrain should make for an excellent Opening day.
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ss20
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I have done the weekend after and it's not bad. The Bluebird gives a bit too much uphill capacity to ski two ways down. Yet again, not every chair typically goes up full. Yet again, there hasn't been some crazy cheap pass available in past year. So who knows what crowds will do. Then they usually run the Canyon quad if they have the snow and the demand.
That being said, I'm gonna be a total hypocrite... thinking about making the trip up for Turkey Day and then again on Sunday.
SIKSKIER
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drjeff
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Historically
(Gotta do this is multiple lines as the reply with quote tab is doing it's no spacing between words thing again now
)Historically though, midweek openings at Mount Snow really aren't too bad. They'll be a bit of a crowd at opening bell, but them once the lifts have been spinning for a little while, the crowd tends to spread out a bit and the lines become fairly minimal.
Their new opening scheme, especially in how they handle Carinthia now, where they spin the Heavy Metal Double instead of the Nitro quad, and open up Deer Run instead of the section of Long John from the near the top of Carinthia down to the top of Heavy Metal, really helped last year, and they will be doing that same set up this year as well until some terrain expansion gets going - the larger crowds, tend to be at Carinthia, using the park set up on Gulch. The Bluebird tends to have it's line thin out quickly for those lapping Cascade to Canyon and Long John to Deer run
Weekend openings tend to historically be more of a consistently higher crowd volume all day
Smellytele
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Crotched and Pats Peak were blowing last night and this morning
xwhaler
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Pats has announced a 12/3 opening, Crotched's site says "first week of December"
Smellytele
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With Pats they could see rain Friday into Saturday (40-50% chance) so I see why they say 12/3. But if the forecast shifts they could open earlier.
dlague
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I think Cannon will be putting up a really good offering for opening day on Friday. Multiple lifts and several trails with something for everyone. It will promote distribution of people.
Snowmaking continues to blast away and it's looking like there will be skiing/riding on 7-10 trails via the Zoomer, Eagle Cliff and Brookside Chairs on opening day 11/25.
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Snowmaking continues to blast away and it's looking like there will be skiing/riding on 7-10 trails via the Zoomer, Eagle Cliff and Brookside Chairs on opening day 11/25.
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That would have been tempting if my skis were here in NJ instead of up in VT...haven't been to Belleayre in years.
+1000 I'm very excited about the way they're doing this. A good chunk of the early season last year was confined to a middle cannon WROD. It was so bad.
dlague
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wtcobb
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SR opens tomorrow but no ability to purchase a ticket for 11/23 or 11/24 on their site.
Yeah, I skied the one trail last year in Dec., but I was already in the area and it was only an extra 45 minutes. Trying to decide if 1 trail is worth 3 hrs each way.
I mean, I know logically of course it's not. But I'm trying to decide if I'm going anyway!
bdfreetuna
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Early season struggle is real!
