Mount Snow 2009/2010

[drjeff]

I fully understand that, otherwise I'd be driving up from CT just to hit it...

Despite that it's the bunny hill it's still really good stoke for area skiers and it gets people thinking about skiing. Donating all the proceeds to the food pantry really tops it off IMHO. :beer:

Not that I'm biased or anything , but Mount Snow just gets it!

 

[Glenn]

Deerfield Valley Chamber of Commerce just sent an e-mail out about Mt. Snow. 8)

 

[vcunning]

Deerfield Valley Chamber of Commerce just sent an e-mail out about Mt. Snow. 8)

Available for viewing here.

Of course, the press release is from Vinnie who love Guinness, so one can only guess what state of mind he was in when he posted it.

 

[Rambo]

Interesting indeed:

 

[jaywbigred]

Interesting indeed:

Wow, where'd you get that?

Anyone else having trouble with Mt. Snow's new website? Also, it seems like a downgrade from the prior one....

 

[Rambo]

Wow, where'd you get that?

Anyone else having trouble with Mt. Snow's new website? Also, it seems like a downgrade from the prior one....

From Mt. Snow's website. Bottom left corner under media gallery. Here are 2 more pics:

 

[drjeff]

From Mt. Snow's website. Bottom left corner under media gallery. Here are 2 more pics:

Ken Gaitor, the grinning guy in the top photo, and one of the guru's behind Carinthia, looks mighty happy to have some snow to play with! I'm guessing that he's really hoping for another good night or two of fan gun production so he can hop in his Pisten Bully and play in the snow, rather than just using human power to set up the features for Saturday's rail jam!

 

[Rambo]

Mount Snow promo vid:

http://vimeo.com/7086395

 

[Glenn]

Mount Snow promo vid:

http://vimeo.com/7086395

Nice find!

Great pic of Gaitor! I'd say he's just as excited as we all are.

 

[drjeff]

Nice find!

Great pic of Gaitor! I'd say he's just as excited as we all are.

Can't wait for the AM update, based on random webcam look ins last night, and seeing the glorious lights of the fan guns on, I'm guessing they had another decent night of production!

FYI, in having their webcam up this AM, the Fan Guns ran until about 10AM

 

[Glenn]

I'd love to make it over there this weekend. But we're not heading up until Saturday AM...and I have a ton of stuff to do around the house.

 

[Newpylong]

Why do you think they put effort into a beginner trail? never made sense to me...

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

growing up in CT, MT Snow was our home mtn, only 2 hrs away, I remember the outdoor pool and the lift with the bug-eye'd shield that closed around you.....went back about 4 years ago (2x in one season) and was put off both times, havent been back nor do we have plans too...maybe the new mgmt turned things around....

 

[Newpylong]

growing up in CT, MT Snow was our home mtn, only 2 hrs away, I remember the outdoor pool and the lift with the bug-eye'd shield that closed around you.....went back about 4 years ago (2x in one season) and was put off both times, havent been back nor do we have plans too...maybe the new mgmt turned things around....

Did any ASC mountains ever not put people off?

If you're not looking for any couloirs (ha), Mount Snow pretty much has something for everyone and I think it would be tough to be turned off nowadays.

 

[drjeff]

Why do you think they put effort into a beginner trail? never made sense to me...

It's really quite simple. A very large portion of one of their target markets now is the park/pipe crew. It doesn't take a lot of time/effort to show off the power of the fan guns in weather like this to make enough to get a small park open which they can pretty much guarentee will be filled with lots of folks hitting the features this weekend. Great PR. Gets the internet buzz going both for the in a few weeks "real opening" parks crowd, AND gets the non parks crowd excited about the fan gun firepower to come hopefully in the next 10 days or so!

I'm quite sure that even if it is just on launch pad with some park features, the revenue they'll generate from the buzz of being able to say open for lift served on October 17th in the coming weeks will more than offset the cost of making the snow.

 

[RootDKJ]

Why do you think they put effort into a beginner trail? never made sense to me...

Is the bar going to be open?

 

[Glenn]

Did anyone venture over there this weekend?

 

[drjeff]

Did anyone venture over there this weekend?

Apparently close to 1000 did, however I'm not sure if anyone from AZ was part of the adolescent rail fest!

Over $5000 in cash and lots of cans of food raised for the Deerfield Valley Food pantry! Great job!

 

[Glenn]

I read over on the Mt. Snow site that MommaBear made it over there. I'll also check out the TR in the TR forum.

 

[jaywbigred]

Mt. Snow not opening this weekend bc of NFP in forecast.

http://mountsnow.com/snowreport.php

Did get a kick out of this though:

Weather: partly sunny skies

Acres of Skiing:
0
Miles of Skiing:
0
Percent Open:
0
Acres We Plan to Have Open This Weekend:
0
Primary Surface:
grass
Secondary Surface:
snow
Number of Lifts Open:
0
Number of Lifts Open This Weekend:
0
New Snow In the Past 24 hrs:
0 "
New Snow In the Past 0 days:
0 "
Grooming:
0
Snowmaking:
0
Base Temperature (7AM):
45°F
Summit Temperature (7AM):
38°F
Average Base Depth:
0 "
Summit Base Depth:
0 "