urungus
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Why do you need an excavator to hang chairs ?
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That's how they hang chairs all the time if you've ever watched it on the webcams...they use the arm of the excavator to lift the chairs.
urungus
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Cool I did not know that … for some reason I thought it was done in the terminal.
Shredmonkey254
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Wow, snowmaking has concluded for the season! What is that, one month of snowmaking with the lack of water late start. Hope it starts dumping
And we don't get the Pineapple Express to take away the goods...
Zand
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I'm sorry, but for a resort of Sugarbush's stature, January 31st is WAY too early to declare snowmaking over for the reason.
In years past the last snow making occurred right before Presidents’ Day, after that no snow making.
Zand
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I think Presidents Day would be the earliest a big name resort would stop blowing. Many blow into March these days.
I get it if like S6 or Middlebury or whatever stop blowing early. But this resort is owned by the same company that owns Deer Valley and they're done snowmaking in January. I'd be pissed if I were a local. One warm week in February (and we've had a few of those in the past 10 years) and you're in a world of hurt.
Hawk
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It appears that you guys still don't understand this place. They blow every trial as least once, go back an hit the ones that need fixin and then they blow Steins, spring fling, snowball and coffee run. And then it is over. Since we did not get a bunch of warm ups and R#*%, they did not have to go back and fix a lot. We got cold and they finished early. No surprise because this has been the deal for the last 20 years. Wishing and bitching is not going to get you any more. Trust me.
STREETSKIER
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You tell em hawk
It does seem early to shut it down.
Exactly...they make their target depths and amounts on the trails and they are done. No surprise...
Spoke with snowmaking crew today and they said it was their last day.
I think in the past they have converted some to lifties and done some spot snowmaking later if necessary
That could make sense for the "cat"to lift chairs. Don't recall if any where on the ground.
Summit spun today so that's good.
Finally some warmer temps today. LP skied well.
I think in the past they have converted some to lifties and done some spot snowmaking later if necessary
That could make sense for the "cat"to lift chairs. Don't recall if any where on the ground.
Summit spun today so that's good.
Finally some warmer temps today. LP skied well.
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if SB wants to move up the ranks from a second class resort to first class they need to keep blowing snow like everyone else and have lifts that run for starters….
From the latest State of the Mountain blog post:
"All in all, we’ve already surpassed last year in terms of total gallons used in a faster period of time. "
"All in all, we’ve already surpassed last year in terms of total gallons used in a faster period of time. "
State of the Mountain 1/31/25 - SugarBlog
January is coming to a close. I don't think I want to see it go. Pending some potential afternoon snow today, we're closing out the month with 72" of snowfall. Six feet!
blog.sugarbush.com
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