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necessary evil. if you want to ski in new england every weekend sometimes you need to go where good snowmaking and grooming is par. stratton serves its purpose early season, and the woods are decent and empty once they fill in.
Yeah I was gonna say, think about what Magic looks like 90% of the year and that's what you'd have at Stratton for coverage without snowmaking and that's without the thousands more people they get daily. I prefer natural snow as much as anyone but an intermediate based hill that averages in the low 100s annually for snowfall needs as much snowmaking as they can get.
The snowmaking coverage is a good thing in the northeast. It's the going out and grooming everything edge to edge after any snowfall philosophy they have that sucks there.95% isn't necessary, more like 70% is where it should be, I do understand that the clientele Stratton caters to doesn't go on ungroomed terrain but 95% is ridiculous.
The snowmaking coverage is a good thing in the northeast. It's the going out and grooming everything edge to edge after any snowfall philosophy they have that sucks there.
Disagree, trails with a man-made base ski totally different (much crappier) than a natural base regardless of grooming. Yes man-made is a necessary evil in the northeast but some trails need to not have it.