Date(s) Skied: Saturday, December 11th, 2010
Resort or Ski Area: Ragged Mountain
Conditions: Manmade, Loose Granular, Scratchy in places
Trip Report:
Day 2 of the season for me at Ragged. They probably had double the acreage open from opening weekend. They had three variations to get to Chute up top, then the bottom you could go Village Green or the Terrain Park. They also had the Magic Carpet open. Headwall and most of Chute and Village Green were pretty skied off by 10AM. The terrain park had awesome snow all day and was basically just a regular trail with a rail at the top and few more at the bottom. Decent crowd, most every chair was going up with people on it. The trails really didn't seem that crowded though.
Snowmaking was going on in the Barnyard, but that was it. I tried prying information out of various employees as to what the next trail roll out will be after Barnyard. Most had no idea, but a couple assumed the little Bail out trail around Headwall and Lower Ridge.
Photos:
looking up Village Green. Almost fully covered where as last week it was about 30%
Guns going at the base of Spear Triple
Barnyard Snowmaking in progress
Looking up the terrain park trail
Snowmaking pond appears to be about half emptied. I believe they refill this by pumping water up from the bog down below the golf course.
Ragged reports a 30% increase in snowmaking capacity. Hard to tell with just two weeks into the season, but compared to other areas, not a lot of snow was made this passed week in my opinion. The conditions were ideal, so I was somewhat expecting to have a bit more made. Base depths on what was open looked pretty good. Perhaps they decided to go that route given the upcoming weather. We'll see as another week goes by. It's clear that they're still in the minor leagues when it comes to making snow. I may choose to ski somewhere else that has more terrain open next weekend.
Resort or Ski Area: Ragged Mountain
Conditions: Manmade, Loose Granular, Scratchy in places
Trip Report:
Day 2 of the season for me at Ragged. They probably had double the acreage open from opening weekend. They had three variations to get to Chute up top, then the bottom you could go Village Green or the Terrain Park. They also had the Magic Carpet open. Headwall and most of Chute and Village Green were pretty skied off by 10AM. The terrain park had awesome snow all day and was basically just a regular trail with a rail at the top and few more at the bottom. Decent crowd, most every chair was going up with people on it. The trails really didn't seem that crowded though.
Snowmaking was going on in the Barnyard, but that was it. I tried prying information out of various employees as to what the next trail roll out will be after Barnyard. Most had no idea, but a couple assumed the little Bail out trail around Headwall and Lower Ridge.
Photos:
looking up Village Green. Almost fully covered where as last week it was about 30%
Guns going at the base of Spear Triple
Barnyard Snowmaking in progress
Looking up the terrain park trail
Snowmaking pond appears to be about half emptied. I believe they refill this by pumping water up from the bog down below the golf course.
Ragged reports a 30% increase in snowmaking capacity. Hard to tell with just two weeks into the season, but compared to other areas, not a lot of snow was made this passed week in my opinion. The conditions were ideal, so I was somewhat expecting to have a bit more made. Base depths on what was open looked pretty good. Perhaps they decided to go that route given the upcoming weather. We'll see as another week goes by. It's clear that they're still in the minor leagues when it comes to making snow. I may choose to ski somewhere else that has more terrain open next weekend.
Don't know if that's true or not. I do think they'll need to sell real estate to fund the Pinnacle project, but with what Ragged currently offers it's a tough sell. Other areas such as Loon would be a more attractive real estate buy.
