Mad River Glen To Open Saturday!

[Zand]

From the website: FINALLY!!! Mad River Glen will open for the season this weekend! We will begin operations at 8:30 AM on Saturday with the Practice Slope lift only! We will open the main mountain as soon as Mother Nature allows. Our plan is to operate for the weekend only and we will play it by ear for the midweek period. Lift tickets will cost $20 this weekend and the Season-long kids programs will be kicking off their ski season. Thanks to all of our skiers for your patience this year. Trust us, no one wants to be open more than us! Over the past few days we have received 6" plus of good "basebuilding" snow. It currently snowing and it looks like things are FINALLY beginning to look up. We still need quite a bit more natural snow to open the main mountain for the season, and trust us, we'll do whatever we can to get things cranked up for the season! Stay Tuned...! This weekends naturalist programs will be going on as scheduled. The MRG_Tubbs Snowshoe Festival originally planned for Saturday has been postponed until February 17th.

 

[SIKSKIER]

I love MRG but in this day and age,I don't know how you guys can make it without snowmaking.Good luck and MRG more than anybody is praying for snow!

 

[Newpylong]

Meet ya there, not

 

[hiroto]

I found error in MRG weather report:

... Whatever snow does fall early Tuesday will not officially get us out of the woods.

I think it should read "into the woods" ;-)

 

[David Metsky]

Yee freekin' haw. Finally, a start to this winter. I don't know how many days I'll get at MRG, but they're always worth it.

-dave-

 

[gores95]

I love MRG but in this day and age,I don't know how you guys can make it without snowmaking.Good luck and MRG more than anybody is praying for snow!

I agree 100%. Forget replacing the single chair and start investing in more extensive snowmaking. By not substantially upgrading their snowmaking capacity, the wave of the future could see MRG's season being only a month or two long. Way too short by ANYONE's standards.

 

[kcyanks1]

I agree 100%. Forget replacing the single chair and start investing in more extensive snowmaking. By not substantially upgrading their snowmaking capacity, the wave of the future could see MRG's season being only a month or two long. Way too short by ANYONE's standards.

There is no concern about that happening anytime soon; this is just one unreasonably warm winter so far. MRG is more enjoyable without snowmaking. When I go to other areas (SB, Jay), I intentionally spend most of my time on trails without snowmaking. There is no reason for them to add it at this point, and if they were to, it should only be increasing capacity on lower mountain, high traffic trails, so that when they get snow up top they can still stay open with top-to-bottom skiing. Leave the good terrain alone.

 

[kcyanks1]

I agree 100%. Forget replacing the single chair and start investing in more extensive snowmaking. By not substantially upgrading their snowmaking capacity, the wave of the future could see MRG's season being only a month or two long. Way too short by ANYONE's standards.

Also, they can't forget about the doing something to the single chair entirely. I think they will have issues with it passing inspection in a couple years if they don't make major changes or replace it.

 

[millerm277]

The main mountain is opening tomorrow with at least 18 trails.