Snowmaking begins tonight!!!!

[thinnmann]

Belleayre is obviously blowin'

Pic of Day from Belleayre web site screen cap ~

 

[Rob A]

Is Belleayre blowing? That looks natural. I'm going opening day, will they have a decent amount of terrain off the top?

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Is Belleayre blowing? That looks natural. I'm going opening day, will they have a decent amount of terrain off the top?

When is Belleayre opening..that is definitely manmade snow..look how it is glued to the sides of the trees..

 

[Rob A]

When is Belleayre opening..that is definitely manmade snow..look how it is glued to the sides of the trees..

Nov 28

 

[Glenn]

1/2 pipe snowmaking has started at Mount Snow! Check out the 3rd cam down

http://www.mountsnow.com/livecamshot.html

Very interesting! I didn't expect that! I know they plan on having a full terrain park ready to go on opening day...but no idea they were going to open the pipe. :grin:

 

[drjeff]

Very interesting! I didn't expect that! I know they plan on having a full terrain park ready to go on opening day...but no idea they were going to open the pipe. :grin:

No way the pipe will be open this weekend. But they do have to have it up and running and HUGE for the Weekend of January 8-11 for the Mountain Dew AST tour, and that thing takes ALOT of snow gun time to get it ready!

Guarenteed that you'll see a disproportionate amount of early season gun time both in the super pipe area and on whatever trail (Nitro? Inferno?) that's going to be used for the slopestyle competition in the Dew Tour. That tour has HUGE implications for the mountain and the greater Deerfield Valley and having a HUGE pipe and HUGE park I'm sure is a top priority for the management at Mount Snow. I'd bet that they have a target date of around January 1st for when they want all the on-hill snowmaking done for both of those areas, and while it sounds like its a long way off, the amount of gun time required to make the amounts of snow they'll need will eat through that time quickly(even with a cooperative mother nature)

 

[MommaBear]

I doubt the pipe will be open to the general public even when it does come online. I'm guessing they will be preserving it for the competition.

 

[Smellytele]

Pats Peak was blowing snow this morning when I drove by.

 

[mondeo]

Current K-ton snowmaking:
http://www.killington.com/winter/the_mountain/conditions/dor/@@trail_report.html

I'm thinking they'll have every trail with snowmaking on Snowdon open for Saturday. Fingers crossed for Lower Conclusion and some of the canyon. Probably all of Killington Peak and Snowdon open for Thanksgiving weekend, maybe with a few trails on Skye open, the way they're going and with the forecast they've got. With some luck with natural, they might even be able to pull Ramshead's opening up a week.

 

[rachelv]

I doubt the pipe will be open to the general public even when it does come online. I'm guessing they will be preserving it for the competition.

They're also going to have a mini-pipe on Mineshaft this year according to the Carinthia trailmap.

 

[WJenness]

SR pounding T2, Cascades, Upper Punch, Middle Punch, possibly Ecstasy (top right corner).

w00t... Jones meter at 15, can't wait for the weekend!

-w

 

[Justin10]

Lookin good at SR!! Hopefully I can make it there this weekend.


A little closer to home, Loon got in on the action.
Blowing near the base of the gondola:

 

[Vortex]

Loon may be on the agenda for the ride home on Sunday.

 

[Justin10]

I've always managed to avoid loon for their opening weekends, I'll have to try to get there one day this weekend too. Top to bottom would be an awesome bonus too instead of just east basin.

 

[Vortex]

Well put, My choice will be depend on if I have to down load or not

 

[WJenness]

Well put, My choice will be depend on if I have to down load or not

Downloading on the gondola is so much better than downloading on Locke though... Sunday was the first time I've done that, I was paranoid I was going to drop my skis...

-w

 

[Vortex]

Ha, You are rigth about that. I skied down. I left Loon casue I thought Sr was a better value. I still like Loon. Sr has shown its colors this year.

 

[loafer89]

Snowmaking is shut down on main face of Mount Snow as per the webcam, though snowmaking is still ongoing in the half-pipe area. I cannot imagine it's too warm up there as it's only 35.6F here at home.

 

[BigK]

Snowmaking is shut down on main face of Mount Snow as per the webcam, though snowmaking is still ongoing in the half-pipe area. I cannot imagine it's too warm up there as it's only 35.6F here at home.

Maybe they lost a snowmaking pipe. There isn't enough snow up top where they made snow to open yet as well. Wonder whats going on?

 

[jarrodski]

You guys start Tuesday night as I understand it. Sweet!

i'll do some early morning pictures for you guys