Big Burke announcement

[thetrailboss]

100 to go

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[skiNEwhere]

I think this concept has already been explored.....


http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php/28162-Count-to-One-Million/page166

 

[BenedictGomez]

that Hotel just drastically increased their operating expenses just to be "open" for a week/weekend......if they were just developing the resort (ie.snow making infrastructure, downhill MTB trails, better lifts, better food, etc.) chances are the 3 season revenue might have a chance to throw some actual cash to the bottom line. Add in that huge hotel and the operating expense of it.....I think the math gets fuzzy, and it isn't a hard proforma to build on this either.....

Sure, build a aquatic center, bike park, tennis center etc. and they might bring in some incremental folks....but they also just jacked up the operating expenses a bunch again, staffing, utilities, maintenance, insurance (those aren't low insurance businesses).....will the incremental visits cover that expense increase plus throw coin to the bottom line?......

That will be someone else's problem to deal with once QBurke gets sold (yet again).

 

[whiskey jack]

How close?

It looks like they shut down this am and I would imagine it will be pushed out tonight. It will probably take a few nights of grooming to get it up to par for them. I heard they wanted it fore the 15th of Jan.

 

[Smellytele]

95

 

[from_the_NEK]

Still the upside down snowpack with packed powder over powder today
Lots of grooming going on too.

Good morning riders and skiers,
Today we’re skiing 33 trails, 11 glades, and 2 terrain parks, with 5 lifts in operation. We have just added some new groomers to our list Wilderness, Mountain Marsh, McHarg's Cut-Off, Upper Fox's Folly, and Dipper Doodle! More groomed trails include Carriage Road, Upper Dipper, Big Dipper, Open Slope, Lower Warren's Way, Lower Bear Den, Upper Willoughby, Lower Willoughby, High Meadows Pass, Binney Lane, Bunker Hill, Carter Country, and Dashney Mile. Snowmaking operations will continue on Upper Warren's Way and Upper Bear Den today. The snow condition is primarily packed powder over powder.

 

[from_the_NEK]

I actually like it groomed--it is fun to ski it fast.

One of those pictures seems odd--like there is a new knoll or a trail cut. It looks like it is the first pitch and that clearing on the right is where one of the mountain bike trails used to cut off. Or is this just a different trail altogether?

OK, now that I look at it this appears to be an optical illusion. This is the first pitch where the trail goes slightly to the right in this picture.

Just a view you don't usually see since the photog went almost all the way across the top of the trail to where you go into the trees. Here is almost the same view that I took several years ago.

 

[thetrailboss]

Thanks FTN.

And sorry to hear that the storm was upside down.

Glad to hear that they got Upper Warren's covered and that it is curing.

 

[from_the_NEK]

And sorry to hear that the storm was upside down.

It wasn't (last storm was 6 inches of powder). Today's snow report has the "Packed powder over Powder" conditions again today. I'm still not sure how that works .

 

[thetrailboss]

It wasn't (last storm was 6 inches of powder). Today's snow report has the "Packed powder over Powder" conditions again today. I'm still not sure how that works .

I bet that someone has seen the "PP/P" notation and is misstating it as "packed powder over powder" instead of saying that primary conditions are packed powder, secondary conditions are powder.

 

[VTKilarney]

The powder is long gone.


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[from_the_NEK]

The powder is long gone.

Duh! It is hidden under the packed powder! :lol:

 

[BenedictGomez]

I bet that someone has seen the "PP/P" notation and is misstating it as "packed powder over powder" instead of saying that primary conditions are packed powder, secondary conditions are powder.

That's a clever deduction, I bet you're right.

I also bet that whoever is doing that has never skied a day in his/her life.

The powder is long gone.

It's still there, it's UNDER the packed powder.

 

[from_the_NEK]

It's still there, it's UNDER the packed powder.

Beat you to it

86...

 

[faQ]

I bet that someone has seen the "PP/P" notation and is misstating it as "packed powder over powder" instead of saying that primary conditions are packed powder, secondary conditions are powder.

Brilliant, that's it.


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[thetrailboss]

Brilliant, that's it.


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Thanks. I should be a snow reporter

 

[thetrailboss]

So has anyone sprung for the $699 season pass special?


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[from_the_NEK]

So has anyone sprung for the $699 season pass special? 

Break even point for full price adult day ticket: 699/64 = 11 days

Break even point for Vermonter price adult day ticket: 699/52 = 13.5 days

I may still be worth the investment to some people but that window is closing pretty quick.

 

[from_the_NEK]

Winds are honkin again this afternoon. MBX is on hold and likely not going to open again this afternoon looking at the forecast.

 

[dmw]

Winds are honkin again this afternoon. MBX is on hold and likely not going to open again this afternoon looking at the forecast.

What kind of wind speed and direction is most likely to cause holds there? I'm planning to drive up there for the day tomorrow but may reconsider if holds seem likely.