Mt Snow Thread

[drjeff]

Guess I was wrong. So more capacity than Bluebird right?

Sounds like it. A few hundred feet shorter of a lift with roughly 20 more carriers on the haul rope. Guessing the Sundance Express will have less than the 9 second between carriers loading time that the Bluebird has.

 

[SLyardsale]

One thing Mt Snow has is a well connected lift system. Sundance now connects really well to Sunbrook with new snow making on Shooting Star. Canyon connects well to northface. Nitro connects well to the base. Its what they needed to spread it out.

 

[Newpylong]

Yeah perhaps the thought process was Bluebird has Canyon and GSE nearby while this is pretty much it out of Sundance. With added snowmaking to High Traverse, Hop and Shooting Star they want it to really move people out of that base. I'm guessing out out of the 3 base areas Sundance will still be the least likely utilized making this a great lap option.

 

[ctdubl07]

I think I have this logistically correct....when I hiked past the top of the new Sundance lift last week on way to summit, it looks like offload will occur after a 90 degree rotation (vs straight off like old lift) which then points you toward the top of Shooting Star.
If so that means you'd cut straight across Long John....now thats going to take some traffic control but it really does encourage you to dump right down into Sunbrook.

 

[Newpylong]

Don't think they had a choice on that given the topography of the unload area.

 

[urungus]

I think I have this logistically correct....when I hiked past the top of the new Sundance lift last week on way to summit, it looks like offload will occur after a 90 degree rotation (vs straight off like old lift) which then points you toward the top of Shooting Star.
If so that means you'd cut straight across Long John....now thats going to take some traffic control but it really does encourage you to dump right down into Sunbrook.

They need a Killington style tunnel under Long John

 

[urungus]

Any chance Mt Snow will be able to open this weekend ? I don’t see any official updated announcement yet, but they only selling tickets for dates starting Nov 25

 

[drjeff]

Any chance Mt Snow will be able to open this weekend ? I don’t see any official updated announcement yet, but they only selling tickets for dates starting Nov 25

Was hoping to hear about a Saturday opening today... no such luck it seems. Temps just too marginal down at the base to get enough product down prior to the inch or 2 of wet, gloppy snow they got today to let them feel confident enough to make the call right now to get them open for this weekend. I've always hoped that one day they'd add another bunch of fan guns to decrease the spacing between them on say the lower 300 vertical feet or so of the core early season routes to the base area as when they're running the fans in marginal temps it becomes a lot of surface area to cover when not a ton of product is being quickly produced.

Maybe they'll get some GOOD production down low from when they fire up again through say mid day Friday and make a short notice call? Time will tell.

If they hold off until the 25th, the opening day roll out could be more than normal if the weather stays close to forecast

 

[Vter]

OMG ! What has happened to this sport

 

[Vter]

OMG ! What has happened to this sport

 

[FBGM]

Was hoping to hear about a Saturday opening today... no such luck it seems. Temps just too marginal down at the base to get enough product down prior to the inch or 2 of wet, gloppy snow they got today to let them feel confident enough to make the call right now to get them open for this weekend. I've always hoped that one day they'd add another bunch of fan guns to decrease the spacing between them on say the lower 300 vertical feet or so of the core early season routes to the base area as when they're running the fans in marginal temps it becomes a lot of surface area to cover when not a ton of product is being quickly produced.

Maybe they'll get some GOOD production down low from when they fire up again through say mid day Friday and make a short notice call? Time will tell.

If they hold off until the 25th, the opening day roll out could be more than normal if the weather stays close to forecast

Your new GM started in the ski biz 30+ years ago as a snowmaker. You might have a chance

 

[drjeff]

Your new GM started in the ski biz 30+ years ago as a snowmaker. You might have a chance

Not questioning Brian S's resolve and commitment to kicking off his 1st season as a GM at all.

Just need mother nature to over perform a bit over the next 48hrs or so, as she underperformed down low earlier this week.

A couple of angles of Canyon I saw some of my friends post up on their social media feeds certainly made it seem like they will need a GOOD run of closer to 48hrs or more rather than say 24hrs to get enough down to be able to play "connect the piles" to get open for the weekend.

Now if they wanted to download via Canyon or The Bluebird, the upper elevation terrain looks on the webcams to have enough snow already to push out and get open.

Now for purely selfish reasons I hope they can get open for SATURDAY since on Sunday I am going to the Patriots - Jets game and I'd love to be able to kick my ski season off this weekend not next weekend!

 

[Newpylong]

The run at lower elevations was far more marginal than expected. I was at Ragged yesterday and 24 hrs of runtime at the base barely covered the grass.

 

[drjeff]

The run at lower elevations was far more marginal than expected. I was at Ragged yesterday and 24 hrs of runtime at the base barely covered the grass.

Even this morning from their webcams, looks like they weren't able to run down at the base last night, whereas they fired back up high up around dinner time last night. Just a few degrees of wetbulb to the bad side down low this week thus far. Not like the crews don't want to make snow, just that mother nature isn't overly cooperative at some elevations these last few days. Can't do anything about that

 

[urungus]

From Facebook:
While the temperatures have been packing some warm punches, Brian and team aren’t on the ropes quite yet. With a bit of fresh snow today and our continued efforts to make snow whenever temps allow, we’re confident Opening Day is near, but it’s still too early to call it. Our goal is to provide you with the best possible guest experience once you step foot on Mount Snow. It may not be time yet, but we’re so close! Check back in Friday morning.

 

[drjeff]

From Facebook:
While the temperatures have been packing some warm punches, Brian and team aren’t on the ropes quite yet. With a bit of fresh snow today and our continued efforts to make snow whenever temps allow, we’re confident Opening Day is near, but it’s still too early to call it. Our goal is to provide you with the best possible guest experience once you step foot on Mount Snow. It may not be time yet, but we’re so close! Check back in Friday morning.

Yup, saw that posted up yesterday evening.

My hunch is that IF you start to see the main base and carinthia webcams showing signs of snow being made at somepoint this morning, and then you start to see some whales build, especially on the main base area cam where you can see the fans on lower ex and where the throw from them is landing, then Saturday becomes an option, unless they want to open with downloading via either the Bluebird or Canyon.

Otherwise, I wouldn't be surpiised if they choose to hold off until around Thanksgiving and allow them to get more coverage, possibly even more terrain, and enough snow on Gulch to get some park features built

 

[slatham]

Doubtful snowmaking at base until this evening. Big question is do temps hold cold enough during the day tomorrow and Saturday at base? Sunday looks good. Nighttime looks good until mid next week.

 

[urungus]

I just picked up a new pair of boots at Nicks (he and George are great) and stopped by the Mount Snow base area to see what’s going on, they are making snow down low

 

[SLyardsale]

I just picked up a new pair of boots at Nicks (he and George are great) and stopped by the Mount Snow base area to see what’s going on, they are making snow down low

Both are top notch boot fitters. New boots in our group happened this past Sunday at Nick's place.

 

[urungus]

Update promised for this morning has not appeared on Facebook, I foolishly allowed myself to get my hopes up for an opening this weekend but it’s getting awfully late to make an announcement