MEtoVTSkier
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Trail count down to 17/50
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Big Burke announcement
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So this is now where we will get more insight into the intentions of Q......they have a melting mountain, just before the last big ski weekend/vacation period. If they are truly committed to running the mountain as a viable ski resort for years to come, they will double down on the snowmaking on not just the race trails, but some other terrain as well.
The weather past next weekend looks to be prime for snowmaking, especially at night and you know other areas will be ensuring they do whatever they can to keep folks from canceling their Feb vacation plans. I anticipate other mountains to be public and aggressive with their snowmaking effort.
I'm not sure a FB post of "we got 29 guns blazing away" will really fire up hotel reservations, drive day pass sales or keep 2015/2016 passholders from defecting to Cannon, Bretton etc.
This next 5 week period could mean the difference between losing some season pass sales next year or a ton of season pass sales.....
The weather past next weekend looks to be prime for snowmaking, especially at night and you know other areas will be ensuring they do whatever they can to keep folks from canceling their Feb vacation plans. I anticipate other mountains to be public and aggressive with their snowmaking effort.
I'm not sure a FB post of "we got 29 guns blazing away" will really fire up hotel reservations, drive day pass sales or keep 2015/2016 passholders from defecting to Cannon, Bretton etc.
This next 5 week period could mean the difference between losing some season pass sales next year or a ton of season pass sales.....
so they "found" the other 14 trails? They could only find 36 the other day in the paper.....lol
VTKilarney
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It's a screen shot taken from my iPad. For some reason, on the iPad you can expand the camera view so it takes up the whole screen on the iPad - but not on a Windows computer. To take the screen shot, you hit the home button and the power button at the same time.
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VTKilarney
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In this morning's emailed snow report they stated 34 trails open today. Why is it that the right hand never knows what the left hand is doing? Or was trickery their strategy?
17 trails and the thaw is far from over.
River19, unfortunately they just don't have the snowmaking power to do anything meaningful prior to President's Day weekend. There isn't a ton of snow even on the snowmaking trails. Nothing has been refreshed. They've made the bare minimum amount of snow and then moved on to the next trail.
Their only defensive tactic has been to be very aggressive with opening trails that have thin cover. Well... that plan isn't looking too good right now as those trails are roped off.
VTKilarney
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BTW, at the last passholder meeting, Ary said that he was duped when he bought the ski area. He says that he was mislead as to the skiable acreage and the percentage of snowmaking coverage. (Nice due diligence, Ary.)
He said that he was told that snowmaking coverage was 80%. He told passholders that in reality it is 60%.
Apparently it's fine when Ary is the one doing the duping. Their website says that they have 70% snowmaking coverage.
He said that he was told that snowmaking coverage was 80%. He told passholders that in reality it is 60%.
Apparently it's fine when Ary is the one doing the duping. Their website says that they have 70% snowmaking coverage.
VTKilarney
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They have 36 trails and 14 glades. Somebody in marketing must have screwed up and used 50 instead of 36. As a general rule, they only include the glades in their overall trail count when the glades are open. It's just more manipulation.
Depends upon how one calculates it--is it % based upon number of trails covered or number of acres? I believe that the standard is the latter. I know that they significantly increased snowmaking coverage (and being creative to include trails such as Boarderline, Toll Road, Upper Lift Line, Middle Fox's, etc. They used to stretch hoses and cover trail sections to open them. Now they don't have enough staff to even do jack.
MEtoVTSkier
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VTKilarney
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I was at the mountain yesterday. There is absolutely no way anyone believed that the trail count would be 34 today. I actually laughed when I saw the email.
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from_the_NEK
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Sweet, one of my Burke photos was used for the cover story about Burke in the North Star Monthly!
from_the_NEK
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Can you give us a link to the article? Looks like they have an article from last month online.
from_the_NEK
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The hard copy just came out. And the articles are behind a paywall.
Geesh, you are worse than Masskier with his teases of articles that we can't see
If you bought it, would you recommend one get a copy of it for the Burke article?
from_the_NEK
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Geesh, you are worse than Masskier with his teases of articles that we can't see
If you bought it, would you recommend one get a copy of it for the Burke article?
Yes I would recommend it. The article revolves around an interview with Ford Hubbard and goes through the history of Burke ownership. Although it treads pretty lightly on the current ownership.
from_the_NEK
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Geesh, you are worse than Masskier with his teases of articles that we can't see
If you bought it, would you recommend one get a copy of it for the Burke article?
And for the record, I can't see the article either. I bought a copy at the grocery store at lunchtime.
VTKilarney
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You can get a free copy at the back entrance to the comfort inn in St. Johnsbury. I'd be happy to scan the article for you, Trailboss.
EDIT: Wrong paper. I was thinking of the Northland Journal.
EDIT: Wrong paper. I was thinking of the Northland Journal.
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