MRG Suspends Operations Until January 9th

[thetrailboss]

Just read on their site that due to the weather, MRG is closed until Friday. The high school race this week is still on. I had heard that they closed for a bit last week, and were down to just the Practice Slope. Fingers crossed for snow!!!!!

 

[billski]

It's a real struggle. Contrast to Mt. Snow, Stowe, Loon, Stratton, etc. Good illustration of what big money will give you in terms of snowmaking and grooming. Magic is in a similar pickle. While open, it's limited to tubing and other small stuff.

 

[awf170]

Friday is going to be so money. I know I'll be there.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

They need to install some top to bottom snowmaking..and also a gondola for cold days..

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

But by all means keep the snowboard ban as I enjoy being rejected for who I am ..

If they allowed snowboarders..they could make enough revenue to join the 21st century..

 

[Greg]

If they allowed snowboarders..they could make enough revenue to join the 21st century..

The fact that you don't like it means they are doing exactly the right things...

:razz:

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

The fact that you don't like it means they are doing exactly the right things...

:razz:

I like MRG..just being goofy...wow AZ is busy today..

 

[Marc]

Bummer, but probably won't affect my strategy this year of saving myself for the better late season conditions. I'm using chainsaws to produce firewood and scare small woodland creatures in the mean time which is almost as satisfying.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Bummer, but probably won't affect my strategy this year of saving myself for the better late season conditions. I'm using chainsaws to produce firewood and scare small woodland creatures in the mean time which is almost as satisfying.

Have you been out skiing at all this season?

 

[loafer89]

My son and I stopped by Mad River Glen's southern cousin, Magic mountain, yesterday and they are barely opened for skiing. Without the limited snowmaking they had done, skiing for the most part looked very iffy on natural snow.

 

[Marc]

Have you been out skiing at all this season?

Once.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Once.

Seems like a good start..:-o wow and I feel guilty skipping skiing today in favor of gambling..

 

[Marc]

I'm sick of crappy conditions. I want good conditions and I want it to be natural. If I have to wait so be it. No more sufferfests. Well... maybe one or two... but that's it!

 

[dmc]

I could head up there with my snowboard friends and we could losen up some of the "coral head" by sidslipping...

 

[billski]

I'm sick of crappy conditions. I want good conditions and I want it to be natural. If I have to wait so be it. No more sufferfests. Well... maybe one or two... but that's it!

Who made up this lousy forecast? What's his/her manager's name? I want an escalation!
Don't tell me the truth. Tell me what I want to hear!

 

[polski]

They need to install some top to bottom snowmaking..and also a gondola for cold days..

I know you're goofing but I do wonder if they ought to expand snowmaking just a bit -- at the lower elevations, actually, mainly to keep a route or two open to the base when there still is decent skiing on natural snow higher up. All last week they only had the Practice Slope open; from reports I've read I think they might have been able to keep the main mountain open at least a few more (lucrative holiday week) days if the lower elevation trails hadn't all gotten washed out.

Reading recent coop board minutes I see they're eyeing replacement snowguns and snowcat in the next few years. Then again I also see references to constraints on the water supply for snowmaking. As a shareholder I like MRG basically as is and don't need them to become a snowblowing titan like Mt Snow or Sunday River but I also have an interest in the cooperative remaining financially sound, e.g. not letting Sugarbush make all the money during Christmas week.

 

[billski]

I know you're goofing but I do wonder if they ought to expand snowmaking just a bit -- at the lower elevations, actually, mainly to keep a route or two open to the base when there still is decent skiing on natural snow higher up. All last week they only had the Practice Slope open; from reports I've read I think they might have been able to keep the main mountain open at least a few more (lucrative holiday week) days if the lower elevation trails hadn't all gotten washed out.

Reading recent coop board minutes I see they're eyeing replacement snowguns and snowcat in the next few years. Then again I also see references to constraints on the water supply for snowmaking. As a shareholder I like MRG basically as is and don't need them to become a snowblowing titan like Mt Snow or Sunday River but I also have an interest in the cooperative remaining financially sound, e.g. not letting Sugarbush make all the money during Christmas week.

It's my understanding it's a water supply issue. They have the distribtuion system.
Read this: http://savesnow.org/ Out west the notion for sustaining the business is to build the lodge halfway up the mountain and begin skiing from midstation upwards. Saves at lot of $$ long term. interesting notion.

 

[deadheadskier]

Same here .. I haven't been out yet.. and don't plan to until there is something decent to ride ..

Riding isn't like buying tires, can't put it off to the spring....every missed day is a lost day.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Riding isn't like buying tires, can't put it off to the spring....every missed day is a lost day.

I feel that way as well..I won't miss skiing due to conditions but I will if I am sick/exhausted..

 

[eatskisleep]

If they allowed snowboarders..they could make enough revenue to join the 21st century..

Just what we don't want them to do!