mount snow to install a bubble 6 pack next year!

[Smellytele]

Saw it first hand yesterday...it is really big!

I'll leave this softball pitch alone

 

[k123]

When I was on the Mount Snow site yesterday i came across the image by accident. It looks like from the summit cam recently-edit: never mind not recent- since you can see the tower footings.

link

 

[drjeff]

When I was on the Mount Snow site yesterday i came across the image by accident. It looks like from the summit cam recently since you can see the tower footings.

link

Guarentee that pic isn't a recent one - more likely a late May/Early June pic by the looks of it. If it was a recent pic, you'd be seeing a nrelativley recently blasted and graded "ski under" trail in the area of where that 1st capped lift tower from the summit local. The trail would be running from right to left on the screen and will get people over from where the Bluebird Express will unloading facing "old faithful, the grand summit express over to the Cascade and Drifted trails without having to climb up to get there!

 

[k123]

Guarentee that pic isn't a recent one - more likely a late May/Early June pic by the looks of it. If it was a recent pic, you'd be seeing a nrelativley recently blasted and graded "ski under" trail in the area of where that 1st capped lift tower from the summit local. The trail would be running from right to left on the screen and will get people over from where the Bluebird Express will unloading facing "old faithful, the grand summit express over to the Cascade and Drifted trails without having to climb up to get there!

Oh yeah forgot about that part of the construction.:???: That really was a pain have to climb up and over the ridge by the summit triple to get to cascade. It was really random that the photo showed up out of nowhere. Too bad they didn't set up the summit cam somewhere else so we can watch the construction from the top

 

[Glenn]

Those looks like the same wooden coveres they had over the tower bases when the snow was still on the ground. That's odd that the pic came up on the site. It does look to be the summit cam; which isn't there currently because there's no top terminal at the moment.

 

[vcunning]

October 5th Helicopters

Mount Snow announced the the tentative date for the tower helicopter fly-ins is October 5th.

More info here.

 

[oakapple]

If you want to whet your appetite, here's a video of the towers being helicoptered in on Hunter Mountain's west side.

 

[WoodCore]

Watching on the web-cam.......Looks like the first tower is going up!!

 

[Nick]

I have seen people mess up the conveyor many times. Once while in Chamonix they had one and it had a 4 foot drop at the end of it so if you got on too early you would plummet off the end - so they didn't have to stop it.

That's ridiculous but hilarious at the same time.

 

[Nick]

Watching on the web-cam.......Looks like the first tower is going up!!

Sweet!

 

[vcunning]

Mount Snow announced the the tentative date for the tower helicopter fly-ins is October 5th.

More info here.

Postponed until Thursday, October 6th . . .

 

[k123]

From twitter: Best case scenario the helicopter will be here to fly lift towers Thurs afternoon & Fri morning. Please keep checking back for updates.

 

[k123]

the towers arent going up until tomorrow.

Update

 

[dennis]

Towers are up, sorry if you missed it

 

[k123]

Pretty awesome videos:
link

 

[drjeff]

After seeing them 1st hand (and looking across the street at them from my deck right now) they are massive! Noticeably larger than any other lift towers at mount snow

 

[k123]

current view of the towers:

 

[Newpylong]

jeez those things are massive.

 

[Glenn]

Wow! It's going to look a lot different! My wife and I are hoping to head over this weekend for a look. If we do, I'll take pics.

 

[jimmywilson69]

they almost look like they could string up two quads on those things. Breckenridge and Seven Springs, Pa are the only places I have been on 6 packs, and I did not notice the towers and sheeve tops being noticably larger than a regular lift.