Arrowhead Claremont NH Cat Skiing

[skidmarks]

We saw this area on our way to Mt Sunapee and it looked interesting. Checked it out on the way home.
Turns out the Town owns the area now and it's run by volunteers. They offer Snowcat tours for $5.00 per ride! They took the poma down since it couldn't pass inspection but they do have 2 cable tows on the lower Mt.
http://www.arrowheadnh.com/snowcat.htm
More info on the NELSAP site:
http://www.nelsap.org/nh/arrowhead.html

 

[UVSHTSTRM]

Hahaha, this is too funny. I actually live at bottom of Arrowhead. My wife and I bought the house about a year ago. Although nothing above the current rope tows is skiable/ridable at this point it is cool.

A little info on the area in regards to terrain and what could be.

At this time nothing above the rope toes is ridable due to lack of natural snow this year, however last year we got a bunch of early season snow and nothing after March 1st (to speak of) and when my wife and hiked up in early April there were several trails that could have been riden and hadn't been touched the whole season. That day I wish I had hiked up the snowmobile trail with my board. There had to be at least 18 inches of untouched snow. However I blew it and missed out. Several of there trails are very cliffy, proabably black diamond when snow is available. The cliffs would be awesome and parts are quite steep...probably would be the steepest 300 ft of vert for a small hill. Anyhow this is cool that somebody mentioned it. Hopefully with the purchase of snowsleds by the wife and I and some good late season snow we can give some of the upper trails a whirl. At this time there is the tubing area and lower hill open with good coverage. Claremont has some of the best parks for a small town including the Arrowhead ski area. They do have a fan gun that gets used to create the base for the lower part and snow tubing.

Anybody have a ballpark figure as to what a new poma lift would cost to run to the top? I would guess total length would be 1000ft.

 

[BushMogulMaster]

Hahaha, this is too funny. I actually live at bottom of Arrowhead. My wife and I bought the house about a year ago. Although nothing above the current rope tows is skiable/ridable at this point it is cool.

A little info on the area in regards to terrain and what could be.

At this time nothing above the rope toes is ridable due to lack of natural snow this year, however last year we got a bunch of early season snow and nothing after March 1st (to speak of) and when my wife and hiked up in early April there were several trails that could have been riden and hadn't been touched the whole season. That day I wish I had hiked up the snowmobile trail with my board. There had to be at least 18 inches of untouched snow. However I blew it and missed out. Several of there trails are very cliffy, proabably black diamond when snow is available. The cliffs would be awesome and parts are quite steep...probably would be the steepest 300 ft of vert for a small hill. Anyhow this is cool that somebody mentioned it. Hopefully with the purchase of snowsleds by the wife and I and some good late season snow we can give some of the upper trails a whirl. At this time there is the tubing area and lower hill open with good coverage. Claremont has some of the best parks for a small town including the Arrowhead ski area. They do have a fan gun that gets used to create the base for the lower part and snow tubing.

Anybody have a ballpark figure as to what a new poma lift would cost to run to the top? I would guess total length would be 1000ft.

A NEW poma lift? $650,000-800,000. Just a ballpark. The engineering and design is a huge cost, regardless of the type of lift. Plus, Poma doesn't manufacture surface lift components in the US, so they would be coming from Leitner in Italy. That means more money.

 

[UVSHTSTRM]

A NEW poma lift? $650,000-800,000. Just a ballpark. The engineering and design is a huge cost, regardless of the type of lift. Plus, Poma doesn't manufacture surface lift components in the US, so they would be coming from Leitner in Italy. That means more money.

Thanks, guess I can not expect anything like that anytime soon. Especially considering a new $15 million + rec center is in the works and a new $25 million highschool is also on the docket. Not sure how smart it would be to build one anyhow, expecially without more snowmaking for the upper part of the hill.

 

[marcski]

Thanks, guess I can not expect anything like that anytime soon. Especially considering a new $15 million + rec center is in the works and a new $25 million highschool is also on the docket. Not sure how smart it would be to build one anyhow, expecially without more snowmaking for the upper part of the hill.

Why new?

http://resortboneyard.com/list.php?category=12

Look, the 2nd listing is Plattekill's T-bar. 1000' $10K

 

[threecy]

Why new?

http://resortboneyard.com/list.php?category=12

Look, the 2nd listing is Plattekill's T-bar. 1000' $10K

You'd still likely be nearing six figures after transport, engineering, and install.

 

[marcski]

You'd still likely be nearing six figures after transport, engineering, and install.

Right, but still sure beats $650-800K!