Big Burke announcement

[VTKilarney]

Q Burke still shows midweek tickets for sale on Liftopia for the week of December 14th. Are they going to be open midweek, or is their marketing department asleep at the switch? If it is a screw up, hopefully nobody makes the drive only to find a closed ski area.

 

[thetrailboss]

Q Burke still shows midweek tickets for sale on Liftopia for the week of December 14th. Are they going to be open midweek, or is their marketing department asleep at the switch? If it is a screw up, hopefully nobody makes the drive only to find a closed ski area.

Think of the positives--plenty of room! Good snow! Good parking! :lol:


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[SkiRaceParent]

Think of the positives--plenty of room! Good snow! Good parking! :lol:


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I'm banking on it being open. If not, I'll be hiking!

 

[VTKilarney]

The storm that is arriving today is going to have a huge impact on opening weekend. Temps will not allow for snowmaking after the storm hits. It remains to be seen how much rain, if any, we will get. Hopefully there will be very little rain.

 

[SkiRaceParent]

The storm that is arriving today is going to have a huge impact on opening weekend. Temps will not allow for snowmaking after the storm hits. It remains to be seen how much rain, if any, we will get. Hopefully there will be very little rain.

Agreed. It should still open but the precipitation type will prob dictate whether we are skiing on 3 trails or ~10.

 

[VTKilarney]

We got snow followed by rain. Net result was a couple of very wet inches of snow. Hopefully the mountain fared better.


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[Masskier]

6" at mid Burke and more on top

 

[VTKilarney]

Pure rain now. Grr...


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[VTKilarney]

Here is a tentative list of trails that will be open this weekend:
East Bowl
Wilderness
Powderhorn
Carriage Road
Lift Line
Deer Run
Lower Doug's Drop
Mountain Marsh
McHarg's Cutoff
Dipper Doodle
Open Slope
Little Dipper
Lower Warren's Way
Upper Fox's Folly
Lower Fox's Folly
Upper Bear Den
Lower Bear Den
The Shoot
Upper Willoughby
High Meadows Pass
Sasquatch

The list seems somewhat ambitious given the damage to the snowpack that the rain has caused. I'm disappointed (for my children's sake) that the only trail serving the Sherburne Express will be High Meadows Pass. That makes for some VERY tedious skiing from that chair. I was also hoping to see either Willloughby or the Dippers from top to bottom. But... if they can manage it this is a very nice number of trails to have open for this time of the year.

 

[VTKilarney]

Article about Burke Mountain: http://www.skinet.com/ski/article/rebirth-burke

A couple interesting points mentioned in the article:
1) $105 million has been "committed" to the Burke project. This term is somewhat vague.
2) The mountain was renamed as a favor to the local community, to reassure them that the current owners are here to stay.

 

[thetrailboss]

Article about Burke Mountain: http://www.skinet.com/ski/article/rebirth-burke

A couple interesting points mentioned in the article:
1) $105 million has been "committed" to the Burke project. This term is somewhat vague.
2) The mountain was renamed as a favor to the local community, to reassure them that the current owners are here to stay.

http://www.skinet.com/ski/article/rebirth-burke?brn=ski&src=email&date=120314&lnk=text

You missed the BIGGEST part: the Bear Den will be saved!!!!!


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[VTKilarney]

Is the article paid for? It smacks of PR.

For some reason I thought that the Bear Den news had already gotten out there. My bad.

 

[thetrailboss]

Is the article paid for? It smacks of PR.

For some reason I thought that the Bear Den news had already gotten out there. My bad.

Speaking of PR, note who did the talking to Joe Cutts and SKI.

 

[Masskier]

JJ Toland, is Director of Communications for Jay

Burke is reporting 20" on the summit

 

[BenedictGomez]

Burke is reporting 20" on the summit

Holy smokes! They must have had some big-time banding.

 

[VTKilarney]

They say that they have 20 inches at the summit stake, not that they received 20" from this latest storm.

It's kind of like including your butt when measuring your privates.


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[VTKilarney]

JJ Toland, is Director of Communications for Jay

So Burke does not have someone of their own?

 

[VTKilarney]

I've seen the figure of $108 million bandied about many times for the total cost of the Burke improvement project. I had, however, never seen the cost of the hotel itself. I finally stumbled upon that today. In the following article, the contractor disclosed that the hotel will cost $55 million to build.

http://www.news7newslinc.net/index.php/around-the-nek/burke/891-q-burke-hotel-shaping-up

 

[xwhaler]

Excellent news abt the snow (and Bear Den!)
Will be at Burke next Saturday using my Fox 44 voucher. Had fears that only 1-2 routes would be open off the summit but now with cold next week looks like they could possibly expand beyond what they will open with this coming wknd.

 

[SkiRaceParent]

If you want to keep your ACLs you may want to rethink skiing in this stuff, unless we get more fluffier snow or the groomers can mix it all in.