jimmywilson69
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this shouldn't be a surprise. they are adding snowmaking. Birch would probably just die unprotected in there with the snowmaking in due time anyways.
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Snow making will be nice for early season options. I‘m all for new trails with snow making.
jimmywilson69
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Agree, with decent temps, it should take less time to open RT to HG than the Deathspout route. Will be interesting to see how they do the rollout with this option.
Completely agree. Leaving some trees and making it "semi-gladed" was not an option when you're adding snowmaking to it. (I know ducky compared to Murphy and Sleeper...and while they have some trees and have snowmaking, they're also very wide trails)
And yes, even in their latest blog post about this they said the same thing that this opens up more possibilities early season:
And Now For a Gadd Peak Update - SugarBlog
As we've entered into what can only be deemed as an incredible March so far, there have been a couple topics that I thought would be worth covering in greater detail. Both of these are over at one of my favorite sections of either mountain, Gadd Peak: the Reverse Traverse project and Stein's Run...
blog.sugarbush.com
Hawk
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I wonder what is up with North Linx. There was an excavator up there yesterday.
Hawk
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Also it would be hard to groom with birches in the way. They are leaving it pretty narrow as it is a traverse still. I agree that I liked the old way but keeping the numbers down on that trail is not what they were looking for.
Speculating, but probably had to pull the motor or something else out of the drive terminal.
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Says it's open today. Blew our slidebrook plan..then slidebrook lift closed..blew our north plans...
Everybody got a plan..till the lifts shut down...
Everybody got a plan..till the lifts shut down...
Not sure where you see it is open...says closed in the first sentence of the snow report: " 8:23 AM *North Lynx is Closed. Hiking will be Permitted from 10am-3pm* "
Yesterday afternoon they said they expected it to reopen today. But I guess whatever they thought would be fixed by now clearly isn't.
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Nope...
Snowing a little now here
Snowing a little now here
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I looked at this
No way you could leave trees on a trail that narrow with snowmaking and grooming. I think this trail will be groomed most nights all the way to HG. Depending upon temperatures. I think the ideal plan would be to open GH as soon as possible along with Valley House lift, SB/SF, the new Traverse over to HG and Upper Jester to Valley Traverse. Then work on Upper Grinder and Downspout. Not rushing to groom Downspout and letting it sit for a few days will make it a much better experience when it opens. Early temps always dictate the plan of course. The old RT will be restored to forest.Completely agree. Leaving some trees and making it "semi-gladed" was not an option when you're adding snowmaking to it. (I know ducky compared to Murphy and Sleeper...and while they have some trees and have snowmaking, they're also very wide trails)
And yes, even in their latest blog post about this they said the same thing that this opens up more possibilities early season:
And Now For a Gadd Peak Update - SugarBlog
As we've entered into what can only be deemed as an incredible March so far, there have been a couple topics that I thought would be worth covering in greater detail. Both of these are over at one of my favorite sections of either mountain, Gadd Peak: the Reverse Traverse project and Stein's Run...blog.sugarbush.com
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Slidebrook
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skied two new lines in slidebrook today. very cool!
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If I wasn't meeting people at Ellen...well..I wouldn't be here...
Took 1 run and now have parked my derriere in the lodge. Going to take a while to soften this stuff up.
Took 1 run and now have parked my derriere in the lodge. Going to take a while to soften this stuff up.
I drove 5.5 hours. Took one run down snowball to spring fling and now I’m sitting on the patio overlooking bravo. It’s a sheet of ice and the ruts from the groomer tracks make it even more interesting.
I’m the dude in the grey jacket with orange pants if anyone wants to say hello.
KustyTheKlown
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Sorry guys that sucks. So glad I drove east to the rivah
Too bad I didn't look at the forum while I was on the mountain, I would have looked for you. Back at my condo already. This morning was umm...interesting to say the least. That rain and warm temps followed by a very late re-freeze sure screwed things up last night. Last night was probably not the night to groom Domino lol! Took 3 runs on the Bravo side (Domino, went up HG and did Jester, then did Snowball/Lower Snowball. Said enough of that and went over to wait in line for GH to open. Got 3rd chair over there. Sleeper and Hot Shot were nice...but there's only so much of those I can do so called it a day. Not sure whether the sun is going to come out or not. That sure would help...but I don't have patience and am planning to ski the next 4 days so no need to push myself to stay out there today. Had a nice chat with Win while we were waiting for GH to open (he was first chair).
North Lynx was on a delay...believe I overheard Hammond saying they put a new motor in it this week and were doing some adjustments this morning hence the delay.
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