drjeff
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Yup, just saw a post on FB from a friend from this morning where you can see the whale building actively going on on Ripcord as well as Beartrap and a few other locations. Snowmakers back at it!
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Mt Snow Thread
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Geoff
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I could have written this about my almost 40 years at Killington. It’s nice to know a big pile of people. There’s always someone to ski with. Lots of lifelong friends. In each other’s weddings. Godparents. I took a hard look at changing mountains several times but it’s tough to give up the roots. It’s really strange not being there this winter.
slatham
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Whats the story with Mt Snow not having most of the fixed grip lifts running? I understand the issues with the detachable, but one of the good things about Mt Snow historically with winds and ice is there are many fixed grips that can run. Sundance, Ego, Sunbrook, North Face x2. The icing stopped 24+ hours ago now.
staffing issues, vail unwilling to pay overtime to existing staff to work 24/7 to get lifts open? Also wouldn't be surprised if they are prioritizing the detachables now since the bulk of the epic clientele prefer them
IceEidolon
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Enough ice will stop a fixed grip also, and if everything is down they might as well prioritize the highest capacity lifts.
KustyTheKlown
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A friend texted me a nightmare video from mount snow. One of the wildest lift lines I’ve ever seen. Lots of people turned up to ski dust on ice? lol
Saw that on the Mt Snow passholders group, looked insane. Anyone there today that can chime in?
nh2maboarder
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Back in October I booked a group vaca for 10 at Mt. Snow thu-sat night. Bluebird today had the longest line I’ve ever seen in my life. We showed up and immediately turned around and left. There were people waiting in line for the canyon lift and it wasn’t even open cause of ice. We thought about going to Okemo but figured it couldn’t be much better, and it would’ve been an hour drive for the 10 of us. Just went to a brewery instead.
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slatham
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The pics I saw from Bromley were incredible - solid 1" looked like it could be 2" of ice. They still have only 3 lower Mountian fixed grips and "hope" to have HSQ at some point today (Sunday). Stratton still has 3 high speed lifts and the Gondi down.
I knew from hearing from the Magic crew there was a lot of ice at the summit but I guess the higher you went the worse it got.
Okemo seemed to do OK as they were on northern edge of icing and got more snow. Further north powder day.
SoVT just can't win this winter. Snow is either just north or just south/east.
I knew from hearing from the Magic crew there was a lot of ice at the summit but I guess the higher you went the worse it got.
Okemo seemed to do OK as they were on northern edge of icing and got more snow. Further north powder day.
SoVT just can't win this winter. Snow is either just north or just south/east.
Nothing open but the bluebird and a couple of fixed grips that only go up part way on a weekend, not really sure why anybody would be surprised. I'm no vail guy but after it was broadcast all over social media that they got a huge ice storm and lifts weren't going to be spinning, anybody that would still choose to show up on a Saturday at Mount Snow in those conditions really cant complain.
nh2maboarder
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Yeah agreed, only reason we showed up is cause we were staying 10 minutes away and just didn’t feel up to driving.
FBGM
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Looks Epic
KustyTheKlown
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the schadenfraude is delicious til you realize theyre gonna flood ikon and Indy next year
Ski2LiveLive2Ski
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Good day to be at Stowe
Good day to be at a non epic area far enough north to have missed the ice storm
abc
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I was at Mount Snow on Friday morning after driving up the night before. The precipitation was supposed to switch from freezing rain to snow overnight but it never happened. I finally bailed on Mount Snow around 11am and drove to Okemo (wishing I had done so sooner). On the drive north, it switched from freezing rain to snow. Conditions were great at Okemo on Friday, and even better on Saturday.
nh2maboarder
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Yeah I should clarify. Friday morning we thought about going to Okemo. I would have done it if it was just me and my wife, but we were worried about driving since the ice was insane and never switched over to snow until Friday afternoon, so we didn't end up going to Okemo on Friday. On Saturday, we (stupidly) thought more lifts would be open at Mt Snow, and by the time we realized that it was gonna be another dud, we thought about driving to Okemo but we would've gotten there at like maybe 10:30 and figured we should just bag it.
Krusty - bingo, I had that exact discussion while at Stratton last weekend…I fear the amount of converts to IKON for next season is going to be tremendous with obviously painful results in terms of crowds.
drjeff
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What a difference a few hours, and an over performing snow squall makes!
Really firm and slick in places until about 10. If it didn't get groomed, it looked glacial.
Then it started snowing about 10. And kept snowing until about 1, with about 6" falling. Then another squall went through just before 2, dropping another inch!
Sure it's firm underneath, but I definitely won't complain about a surprise 7" or so powder day! And mtn ops is still making a bunch of snow! Ridge, Plummet, Thanks Walt, and what looks like from my condo, Fool's Gold still getting hammered by the guns.
Crowds were what I would describe as a typical weekend from what I experienced today
Really firm and slick in places until about 10. If it didn't get groomed, it looked glacial.
Then it started snowing about 10. And kept snowing until about 1, with about 6" falling. Then another squall went through just before 2, dropping another inch!
Sure it's firm underneath, but I definitely won't complain about a surprise 7" or so powder day! And mtn ops is still making a bunch of snow! Ridge, Plummet, Thanks Walt, and what looks like from my condo, Fool's Gold still getting hammered by the guns.
Crowds were what I would describe as a typical weekend from what I experienced today