The NEW Magic Mountain

[ne_skier]

Looking good out there! Hoping for more snow and some terrain expansion

 

[slatham]

Fun and beautiful afternoon with some nice snow, including some very skiable snow being made. They had 18 guns running on ShowOff and 7 in the beginner area before they started ramping down. Heard they will move to the summit today to get UMC into Medium done. That should also allow some upper mountain natural trails to open for next weekend, more if they can pick up some snow this week. Not huge storms this week but we should get some accumulation.

Nice start to the Magic season.

 

[JoeB-Z]

Cold today and I almost passed. I thought the 2 degree wind chill was inaccurate and then Ullr straightened me out with a maybe 50 mph gust as I headed down Wand. Brought me to a near standstill. The snow is quite good. I enjoyed my runs plenty. At 3 I noticed no one else was skiing. I headed in so they could sweep and shut down the lift. I once had a liftie at Eldora in CO ask me to stop skiing. They had night skiing. He said "Look it's -25, no one else is skiing and I want to go home. "

 

[JoeB-Z]

I forgot to say they were excavating what I suppose was a leak at the base of Showoff. Ugly weather for that. Thanks to the crew.

 

[Newpylong]

Looks like they've had a rough go at it huh? Leak at the bottom and some pipe damage up top, so no access off the top yet. Also lost 1 of only 2 compressors I heard...

 

[letitsnow1]

They fixed the compressor and they’re working on the pipes

 

[Hastur]

no summit route yet? Hopefully for after xmaa

 

[slatham]

They had one of their 2 electric compressors down, so they brought in a rental diesel that went live 10 or so days ago. Hearing electric compressor now back up. But they’ve had some pipe issues on the route they’re running to the summit. No idea of exact status but they were trying to get it for this weekend, but have pushed that off to the holiday weekend.

While they had issues on summit route on 400 line they switched to 300 line and made snow around the base and Hocus Pocus.