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Yup, just saw that on their webcam.
Agreed.
Same, plan was to wrap season on monday but doubt it will be worth the drive. Friday will likely be decent but working, not interested in Saturday crowd. Probably my last season with a K spring pass, did not get value out of it this year.
Almost always has been that way. The flat section that the middle is, tends not to drain the melting water from the snowpack under it as efficiently and that serves to warm the surrounding ground quicker, thus increasing the melt rate (or atleast that's what I recall someone with a much greater knowledge of the SS melting process over on Kzone explaining a few years ago
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365 + 1 = 366
Agree, folks check their speed approaching the two towers after the "headwall". I've always wondered why not do this on Outer Limits. Butt, There's far more infrastructure below SS. Most skiers can't handle the steeps on OL. Give the people what they want.Almost always has been that way. The flat section that the middle is, tends not to drain the melting water from the snowpack under it as efficiently and that serves to warm the surrounding ground quicker, thus increasing the melt rate (or atleast that's what I recall someone with a much greater knowledge of the SS melting process over on Kzone explaining a few years ago
If that's the case, they'd likely have to put an extra 5 to 10 feet on that middle section to have it melt out to completion at a similar pace as the rest of the trail.
Maybe if they get a season where they're not in recovery mode as often as they were this year (one can certainly make the case that some upgrades to a good chunk of their snowmaking system currently may help facilitate the speed at which they can recover, let alone roll out terrain initially) they may be able to do that. Let's also not forget that it took a little while longer this season as well to get a decent window or 2 in that late Feb/early March timeframe when historically they really go after SS to build the depths needed to go deep into May and potentially June.
Almost always has been that way. The flat section that the middle is, tends not to drain the melting water from the snowpack under it as efficiently and that serves to warm the surrounding ground quicker, thus increasing the melt rate (or atleast that's what I recall someone with a much greater knowledge of the SS melting process over on Kzone explaining a few years ago
If that's the case, they'd likely have to put an extra 5 to 10 feet on that middle section to have it melt out to completion at a similar pace as the rest of the trail.
Maybe if they get a season where they're not in recovery mode as often as they were this year (one can certainly make the case that some upgrades to a good chunk of their snowmaking system currently may help facilitate the speed at which they can recover, let alone roll out terrain initially) they may be able to do that. Let's also not forget that it took a little while longer this season as well to get a decent window or 2 in that late Feb/early March timeframe when historically they really go after SS to build the depths needed to go deep into May and potentially June.
