That is hilarious. Amateur hour continues. :sigh:
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That is hilarious. Amateur hour continues. :sigh:
If this were ANY OTHER business I might pull the trigger with a note saying "please do not process if you indeed intend to charge $5/each as opposed to $5/order". But given these bumblers that would be a HUGE mistake. Sadly I think they would take the $100 and not give it up w/o a huge fight. I have indeed been in a pass fight with the Ary crew and lost badly.
from_the_NEK
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Someone forgot to pump to refill the pond? The river is kind of low but it shouldn't be that bad. :-?
Whats the use of running more than 25 guns if you can't keep water available for them?
VTKilarney
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The big question is when will water levels rise to allow snowmaking again.
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The best part is that this great "deal" is guaranteed to fail. Perhaps it was meant to fail.
Serious question: do they have anyone left who KNOWS how to operate the system?
from_the_NEK
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I have a hunch that the crew has been thrown in the deep end (or is it the shallow end with no water in the pond). The lack of long time experience up there is disconcerting.
VTKilarney
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Here's another concern. Snowmaking opportunities will be limited at best before opening day. There is no snow on the lower hill and they have yet to complete a top to bottom run on the main hill. There is hardly any parking on the main hill. The only parking lot of any size is at the Sherburne base. So just to connect sufficient parking to the Mid Burke lift they still need to make a lot of snow.
I think it's a real possibility that opening day will be pushed back for a second time. I just don't see how they can get there with only 25 guns available and warm weather coming.
I think it's a real possibility that opening day will be pushed back for a second time. I just don't see how they can get there with only 25 guns available and warm weather coming.
Weather looks to be mid 30s to mid 40s the next 2 weeks with reasonable temps overnight to allow for some snowmaking. That is if they can get water and if they can get more than 25 guns going, btw has anyone confirmed they can only run 25 guns?
Right now that weekend of the 11th that is the big hotel opening weekend.....looks like low 40s with showers for 3 days leading up to that Saturday (including 40s and showers on Saturday)........right now that is a tough hand of cards to play with.
Right now that weekend of the 11th that is the big hotel opening weekend.....looks like low 40s with showers for 3 days leading up to that Saturday (including 40s and showers on Saturday)........right now that is a tough hand of cards to play with.
from_the_NEK
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I took a drive up around the mid-Burke area on Friday. There is a beautiful new bridge connecting the 3 1/2 tiered parking area between the groomer maintenance building and the Brookside condos. However, at least 1/3rd (probably closer to 1/2) of the potential parking is taken up by construction office trailers and construction equipment/supplies. Granted the supplies will probably be moved somewhere else by the start of the season but are those office trailers going to be moved anywhere? Right now I would be surprised if there was space for <100 cars up there (not including the 10-20 parking areas in the basement of the hotel).
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from_the_NEK
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Vouchers to the water park at Jay?:idea:
VTKilarney
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Didn't they said that there won't be much parking (if any) for day visitors at Mid-Burke. There certainly won't be enough.
FWIW there are now pics up from the night skiing experiment the other night for the Planning Commission. Literally like ten people attended. I am still trying to figure out "who" is going to night ski and ride at Burke.
from_the_NEK
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Would have been more interested to see what it looked like from off the mtn. Those pics look like they are standing under any random parking lot light.
+1. Looks like there is a shot of them on Darling Hill, but no photo of the demo. Q ran out of space on his iPhone. Too much techno music.
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VTKilarney
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Keep in mind that lights reflecting off of snow will be much brighter than off of grass.
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I was at Mid-Burke yesterday and there is virtually NO parking there - even the reserved BMA spots were totally blocked with construction "stuff"
Me too. It didn't work at Stowe and that was on a great 2000+ vert trail.
this is a total assumption on my part–but I bet last year ary was hanging with the asininely named"Team Beaverkill" and they told him it would be a great idea–that way they could go to the park after work. captain beaverqill not knowing any better and in desperate need of any friend he could get pushed the idea forward.
or night skiing is huge in china and they might get another eb-5 investor–either way seems plausible to me
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