Mt. Snow Sunbrook Lifts

[Vinny]

Thanks Doc. That is the perfect answer and what I had figured. Still don' like it so I'm one of the not-pleased. ........

I'm sure way more people ski the Sunbrook area as a whole than Beartrap. I almost think it would be a better "business" decision then to just run the Sunbrook Quad and leave Bear Trap for the weekend...............

I agree. Sunbrook is primarily a cruisers area. I think you're going to please many times more people by keeping Sunbrook open 5 days and opening Beartrap on weekends only. In general, I think odd/even days thing is rarely a good idea unless you're trying to keep/blow snow, but in this case I don't get it at all.

 

[MommaBear]

Report from family at the mountain today said Sunbrook chair may be running faster, but it was still way too slow. They passed up the powder they spotted on the dippers from the chair just so they wouldn't have to ride that chair again.

 

[Newpylong]

Report from family at the mountain today said Sunbrook chair may be running faster, but it was still way too slow. They passed up the powder they spotted on the dippers from the chair just so they wouldn't have to ride that chair again.

I am pretty sure they haven't made it spin faster yet - besides removing some chairs before this season, which did speed it up somewhat, maybe 50 fpm?

 

[skijay]

They close the Sunbrook quad at 2:45pm and Bear Trap at 3pm on weekends - found that out today!

 

[drjeff]

Report from family at the mountain today said Sunbrook chair may be running faster, but it was still way too slow. They passed up the powder they spotted on the dippers from the chair just so they wouldn't have to ride that chair again.

Big Dipper was nicely filled in on skier's right on the top 1/2 - had some spots approaching boot top deep up there today Moonwalk though IMHO was the ROTD over in Sunbrook. Just nice soft 6" or so blow in with bumps all the way down the right side, plus a nice little bump line forming on skiers left of the last pitch of Big Dipper just before you hit the Sunbrook lift queue.

Beartrap IMHO right now in it's current state is pretty lame after the 1st maybe 100-150ft. Some soft stuff blown in on skiers right , but the bumps are randomly spaced at best and more of the bullet proof base layer comes into play then the bumps. It really needs a good 48 or so hours of snowmaking to put down some workable bump building base and get it in shape for the year.

Bump wise though now at Mount Snow, Chute was sweet today!!!! Also they were nice enough this week to bring 4 or 5 carriage mounted fan guns to the headwall uptop on overbrook and blow some snow there, and it was bumped up quite nice today

 

[dmoltz]

The typical maximum lift speed for a fixed grip lift is 450 fpm, we have a variance to operate to 500 fpm. This is a work in progress to find the right staff that can load it at that speed. You still have the 6.5 seconds to get from the wait line to the load line but the operator needs to put a shoulder into it to break the forward momentum. Takes an experienced operator.
Correct on the closing times in Sunbrook, to get the area cleared for sweep of the mountain it must be roped off early. Otherwise we are sweeping in the dark this time of year and that just does not work well.
Too bad they passed up those runs on the Dippers, had my best run on Little Dipper early Saturday morning.

 

[vcunning]

Too bad they passed up those runs on the Dippers, had my best run on Little Dipper early Saturday morning.

Yep, my son and I happened to get in line with DrJeff and spouse at the bottom of Sunbrook. It was almost hard to recognize anyone yesterday with no exposed skin. But DrJeff's Steeler Starter Jacket was a dead giveaway.

At their advice (which I believe dmoltz may have provided), we hit the dippers. Skiers right was an absolute blast. But my ROTD for us (actually we did it a bunch of times) was the rollers on Mineshaft.