I had a feeling there was one going at the intersection of OG and DS. The surface on skier's left exactly at that point felt like freshly frozen man-made snow...
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Smellytele
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They had one down further one lower jester (maybe at the junction with lower organ grinder). Weird that it was just this lonely one going where there was lots of other thin to bare trail around it.
That was most likely the overflow for what was running up higher.
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Yeah .. snausages .. everywhere.
At least the snow makers had a good shingle slide run down Ripcord. Sad the groomers have such little to work with.
Maybe next week. Keep hope alive.
slatham
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They will have an opportunity this afternoon through tomorrow am. Then the weekend with a pattern change. Finally. Hope it holds.
They were making snow today on DS on the last section between Paradise Extension and the HG chair loading area. They were also making snow on Ripcord and then turned the guns on Lower Ripcord on too as the morning went on.
forecast improves once the ugliness of tomorrow passes. maybe we can avoid the grinch this year for a change.
Slidebrook87
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Not sure if it will come to fruition or not, but it looks like there's some potential for snow Saturday evening and night.
They had the tower guns going on DS overnight and were turning them off at open this morning. They were also shutting down the guns on Ripcord this morning. Production overnight looked pretty good, although it still looks like lower RC needs more snow-making time before they'll be able to open it. Upper RC looks much closer. They also pushed out at least the bottom part of lower OG, although I couldn't tell how high up they were able to push it out. The entrances off DS aren't pushed out and look like they need more snow (although it is hard to get a good view so I could easily be wrong).
Smellytele
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Upper RC looked like it could have opened Sunday afternoon
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I'm not sure which trails the webcams are on, but it looked like a couple of trails had good cover, but there was no traffic on them so I assume they are not opened yet.
Which webcam(s)? Most trails visible on the webcams should be open...
Hawk
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I think he's talking about upper rip chord. If it is not open it is probably because it is thick and sticky. The coverage is there. it is listed as not open.
I just went through the cams and agree that must be what he's talking about since it is visible from the HG Top webcam. Coverage on RC itself is there...but I'm not sure where you'd exit after RC. Lower RC still had a ways to go from what it looked like this morning. Paradise Extension looked pretty bare at the end by DS.
Smellytele
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Couple of weeks ago I was exiting where spillsville and ripcord join
That would be Paradise Extension...which was open for a bit when RC and Spillsville were both open on natural snow. I didn't see anything in person until after last weekend's warmth and rain, but it looks like that weather last Saturday wiped out that option until more snow falls.
There's another "path" that cuts off Spillsville close to the bottom but above Paradise Extension that goes over to OG. It is usually roped off, but I have seen it used once in a while early season to give a route off SV/RC. I don't recall looking at how much snow was on that route on any of my trips up HG this week though.
Hawk
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Sugarbash this Friday from 6 to 9 in the Castlerock? No Grift it seems either. Kind of depressing. Most of the regular people will not be able to attend. Must be a covid thing so keep the numbers down.
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