Mohawk (night): Saturday, 12/1/2007

[Greg]

The (not so)Accuweather 15-day forecast looks great with nighttime snowmaking opportunies this Friday through Sunday nights. Nighttime snowmaking looks to be able to resume next Friday after a brief midweek warm-up next week. I've seen adequate snowmaking to open up Sundown in a 60 hour window so I don't think an opening on or before 11/28 is that much of a stretch.

If they're open by then, I'm there. How about you?

 

[Grassi21]

I really don't plan on missing a Wed this season. Do I have to keep replying to these threads? ;-) :lol:

I'm upping my goal to 30 days. Gotta keep with these Wed to hit it.

 

[Greg]

Do I have to keep replying to these threads?

Yes! I need you to help me round up a few more suckers...

 

[severine]

I just found out I'm not working that night. Maybe I'll make Brian stay home with the kids so I can go.

 

[MRGisevil]

For some reason I have a feeling I'm doing something on the 28th... but if I'm not you can count me in! I'm really eagre to start practicing bumps because I suck at them right now :???:

 

[Greg]

For some reason I have a feeling I'm doing something on the 28th... but if I'm not you can count me in! I'm really eagre to start practicing bumps because I suck at them right now :???:

Well, don't count on bumps that early. They need to open Tom's Treat first before they'll seed which is not normally among the first trails to open. If the forecasted cold holds true though, I could envision seeing bumps in mid-December.

Still a good opportunity to do drills on the flats that help in the bumps.

 

[MRGisevil]

Well, don't count on bumps that early. They need to open Tom's Treat first before they'll seed which is not normally among the first trails to open. If the forecasted cold holds true though, I could envision seeing bumps in mid-December.

Still a good opportunity to do drills on the flats that help in the bumps.

Hey, anything's a start! :-D

 

[Greg]

Heading up to the mountain with my daughter in about 20 minutes to pick up our passes!

 

[bvibert]

I just found out I'm not working that night. Maybe I'll make Brian stay home with the kids so I can go.

Have at it! You can stay home with them once the bumps form...

 

[Greg]

Have at it! You can stay home with them once the bumps form...

Seems like a fair compromise to me...!

 

[Greg]

Heading up to the mountain with my daughter in about 20 minutes to pick up our passes!

The mountain looks great. We took a walk about halfway up Exhibition. The place is littered with Pole Cats and HKDs, many of which had the hoses connected. Brian, you'll be there tomorrow, right? You'll have to give us a snowmaking update (with pics, of course...).

 

[bvibert]

The mountain looks great. We took a walk about halfway up Exhibition. The place is littered with Pole Cats and HKDs, many of which had the hoses connected. Brian, you'll be there tomorrow, right? You'll have to give us a snowmaking update (with pics, of course...).

The snow guns were all out and ready two weeks ago during the ski swap. Yes I'll be there tomorrow, and I will get pics if there's anything to get pics of.

 

[Greg]

Where's your geeky Sundown temp chart thingamajiggy?

 

[bvibert]

Where's your geeky Sundown temp chart thingamajiggy?

I was looking at it the other day, but now I notice that their weather station thingy seems to be broken... or turned off...

http://www.skisundown.com/conditions/



Once they fix their end and I figure out how to setup the CRON job again I'll post a link.

 

[bvibert]

"Conditions" information will be back up and running soon. Our weather station is under repair...please bear with us!

That answers that... Hopefully they fix it soon!

 

[Greg]

32F here. It's usually 2 degrees colder at Sundown. Gotta be getting close to firing up the guns!

 

[bvibert]

The snow guns were all out and ready two weeks ago during the ski swap. Yes I'll be there tomorrow, and I will get pics if there's anything to get pics of.

They did fire up the guns last night, but didn't get more than a frosting on the ground before having to turn them off. I don't know the details as to why they didn't get much accomplished, but I did hear something about a pipe bursting that they were fixing today...

I did have an good conversation with Jarrod though, he's definitely on board for getting the bumps formed sooner rather than later. He was talking about some ideas for the mogul comp at the end of the year.

 

[Greg]

They did fire up the guns last night, but didn't get more than a frosting on the ground before having to turn them off. I don't know the details as to why they didn't get much accomplished, but I did hear something about a pipe bursting that they were fixing today...

I did have an good conversation with Jarrod though, he's definitely on board for getting the bumps formed sooner rather than later. He was talking about some ideas for the mogul comp at the end of the year.

Well, not so good news on the lack of snow made, but good opportunity to get the bugs out early. Great news on the bumps. Chris and Jarrod both seem to be pretty serious about them this year. Perhaps our feedback is indeed being considered. Can't wait to see what they come up with this season!

 

[bvibert]

Well, not so good news on the lack of snow made, but good opportunity to get the bugs out early. Great news on the bumps. Chris and Jarrod both seem to be pretty serious about them this year. Perhaps our feedback is indeed being considered. Can't wait to see what they come up with this season!

Jarrod struck up the conversation about the bumps with me and mentioned your name and AZ, so I'd say that you/we definitely have some influence...

 

[Greg]

Jarrod struck up the conversation about the bumps with me and mentioned your name and AZ, so I'd say that you/we definitely have some influence...

Awesome! While I love Nor'easter and even the Ex bumps, I have an ulterior motive. As we all know, they want to expand, and I would love nothing more than to see part of the expansion include a semi-narrow down the fall line seeded bump run cut skier's left of Gunny. I figure encouraging their mogul philosophy in some small way might help achieve something like that.