KustyTheKlown
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Is this thing on? Did I break it?
Apologies to elbow for my oversight
Apologies to elbow for my oversight
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The "Sugarbush Thread"
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KustyTheKlown
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Fuck it I’m going elbow to Inverness now.
Mild autism is fun
Mild autism is fun
Newpylong
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I was gonna say, I saw Elbow and Inverness/Bemables not done yet! The terrain park too lol.
KustyTheKlown
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I fucking hate moose run woods so much. As you can see I got too low in tumbler and tried to get back but NOPE. The bottom before the run out was true misery. That low (south facing?) snow got cooked. Unturnable
Impressive day! What was your vert total?
On another topic, did a little homage to Peasant tonight and made some Chicken Murphy at La casa de CD. Even paired it with one of the Red Burgundies that Peasant used to often have on their menu…. I so miss that restaurant in the valley…
KustyTheKlown
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38k!
Win, a local was talking about you on the lift to us Saturday, telling us how much she wished you still owned the resort. I don't ski the mountain regularly enough to have a comment but she told us that mountain operations have noticeablly gone down hill since you sold the property.
Maybe it was windy in the morning at Lincoln Peak on Saturday but by 10 or 10.30 am the winds had died down and there was zero reason not to have the HG lift running on what is one of the busiest and most expensive weekends of the year to ski. It created madness at the base of the mountain, and pissed a ton of people off.
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Great photos!
Newpylong
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Well, there must not have been zero reason or it would have been running...
Great photos
Well that is obviously subjective. The lift was on wind hold which I was told is measured by a censor. Not sure how that censor is calibrated but I can tell you that it was not very windy standing at the top of Super Bravo after 10 am on Saturday. The lift opened atleast 2 to 2.5 hours later then it should have.
What does the top of Super Bravo have to do with HG? The wind at the summit can be night and day from anywhere else on the mountain. As has already been mentioned here, the notion that wind holds aren't real is non-sense. There's zero reason for them to not open lifts if safe to do so.
True, and I'm not sure about MRG's lifts that day but I found it interesting that Killington, Stowe, and Jay Peak didn't have a single lift on wind hold Saturday from what I read earlier. Some of the highest lifts out west at 10k or 11k feet at the top get extremely high wind gusts and don't shut down.
The High Alpine lift at Snowmass for example sends you up to 11.5k feet, is always unbearably windy at the top and that lift never shuts down. In any event, from what I understand one of the key benefits of the new HG lift was it was supposed to be more resistant to high winds which wasn't the case on Saturday. It is what it is, we still had a great time after it opened.
The High Alpine lift at Snowmass for example sends you up to 11.5k feet, is always unbearably windy at the top and that lift never shuts down. In any event, from what I understand one of the key benefits of the new HG lift was it was supposed to be more resistant to high winds which wasn't the case on Saturday. It is what it is, we still had a great time after it opened.
And there are also times that Stowe, Jay, etc have lifts on wind hold and Sugarbush doesn't...every lift on every mountain is impacted differently by different directions and speeds of winds.
"More wind resistant" does not mean it will never be impacted by wind and have to shut down. It simply means it should shut down less than the old chair (and there have been several times already this year where HG was running and people stated the old lift would have been on hold).
"More wind resistant" does not mean it will never be impacted by wind and have to shut down. It simply means it should shut down less than the old chair (and there have been several times already this year where HG was running and people stated the old lift would have been on hold).
Tony, there were legitimate wind holds on Saturday. They did not shut the lifts as a money saving measure,… it was purely a safety issue.
Me & few friends skinned to the high terrain that was on wind hold on Saturday, there were areas that it was difficulty to remain standing do the speed of the wind, just hold your ground until the gust stope and move on.
Well, I stand corrected then!
The notion that management shuts down lifts unnecessarily on a holiday weekend blaming the wind is comical. Why would they do this? To save money on electricity?
if memory serves me, there were wind holds under prior ownership as well.
There’s plenty of blame to go around for the general state of lift operations this season but wind holds aren’t one of them.
if memory serves me, there were wind holds under prior ownership as well.
There’s plenty of blame to go around for the general state of lift operations this season but wind holds aren’t one of them.
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