Mount Snow 12/20/10

[skidmarks]

Big improvement from last week! They are making lots of snow and should have a bunch more slopes open soon. Skied Plummet this afternoon snowmaking whales and all! Light was a little flat but the overall conditions were great.

Boy do I remember some fun rides in Mount Snow's old Bubble Gondola Chair back in the day.

 

[Glenn]

Here's to hoping Ripcord opens in the next day or so....

 

[skidmarks]

Here's to hoping Ripcord opens in the next day or so....

They just started to make snow on it from the looks of things

 

[drjeff]

They just started to make snow on it from the looks of things

And the ripper is usually about a 3 day "project" since there's some "technical challenges" about covering basically a cliff with snow in a way that the snow will stick and not slide.

First they basically need to make a really wet layer so that it will basically freeze/bond to the ledge that is the headwall and then once they've got that layer done they gradually start backing off on the the water content to create a thick top layer that will both "bond" to the base layer and also leave a skiable surface over all that ledge.

But whenever opening day is for Ripcord that's a GREAT day as skiing it when it's covered with big whales of cream cheese like snow is really awesome!

 

[Newpylong]

I dont know how they do it but the snow on Ripcord is usually incredibly good for how steep it is. Very edgable...