Hawk
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It's a surprise. ;-)
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The "Sugarbush Thread"
- Thread starter thetrailboss
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About damn time...
3:45 and someone is working hard with a shovel and snow rake in the loading area above Gate House
NewEnglander77
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Just in time for the masses to ride the chair through the snowmaking.
LOL. Just in time for the holiday crowds to get covered while taking the GH lift up this weekend.
Hawk
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Let them eat snow!
That was my first thought...brilliant stuff. Oh well.
Hawk
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Come on. If snowmaking hitting you on the lift is your gripe then maybe it's time to reevaluate. I'll take the snowmaking any time.
Smellytele
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Unless it is the wet slope you say they make...
The base of my board one time got completely covered by an poorly placed guy. The result was a sandpaper like surface which is, obviously, not optimal and pretty dangerous when hitting the landing zone.
fulgoreXC
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After watching the Slide Brook webcam yesterday, it appears the Slidey-B will run this weekend. Yesterday they placed the small snowcat at the top of Village Run, which is generally an indicator the slide brook lift access roads will get inspected, pushed/packed out for snowmobile and ski access. Evac from slide brook lift is no joke, which is the primary reason for SB's caution in running it.
When I saw the guns staged at the bottom of Sunrise moved down, it was "awe shoot", they're setting up to run HS/WF/LHS. That's suboptimal for any weekend, holiday weekend even worse. There are no good gun placements on that trail that prevents the plume from pasting the bottom of your skis. The lift profile is so low and the pitch on Waterfall is such it's like threading a needle. Especially since the wind is almost always upslope. The only way you manage is to cut the water way back and make the snow super dry. That's less than ideal when you're on the first run of a trail. That also means Sunrise will not likely get any this year.
The conditions report says LP snowmaking is down for maintenance. I can tell you it's not a lack of water. The Mad River is running seasonally high. From an outside perspective it looks like the snowmaking team is struggling a bit this year. Snowmaking is hard enough when everything is going well. Let's hope this is minor and they get after it ASAP given that the current temps only last through tonight. Then it gets marginal until Sunday night.
When I saw the guns staged at the bottom of Sunrise moved down, it was "awe shoot", they're setting up to run HS/WF/LHS. That's suboptimal for any weekend, holiday weekend even worse. There are no good gun placements on that trail that prevents the plume from pasting the bottom of your skis. The lift profile is so low and the pitch on Waterfall is such it's like threading a needle. Especially since the wind is almost always upslope. The only way you manage is to cut the water way back and make the snow super dry. That's less than ideal when you're on the first run of a trail. That also means Sunrise will not likely get any this year.
The conditions report says LP snowmaking is down for maintenance. I can tell you it's not a lack of water. The Mad River is running seasonally high. From an outside perspective it looks like the snowmaking team is struggling a bit this year. Snowmaking is hard enough when everything is going well. Let's hope this is minor and they get after it ASAP given that the current temps only last through tonight. Then it gets marginal until Sunday night.
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Agreed. Groomed offramp on LP side.
Bummer about Sunrise, though it is skiing really nicely now, albeit thin.
Hawk
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They already ran a groomer out through slidebrook two weekends ago and last weekend. I use Village run quite a bit and saw the results.
VTSkiBike
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I hope you're right. I assumed they would hype up the Slidebrook opening in the today's snow report but looks like it's to going to be a surprise.
Hawk
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I also noticed that they are not doing fireworks this weekend. Don't they usually do that MLK every year?
ducky
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There's an excavator on the hill besides Valley House where the pond skimming is held. I'm assuming they have to dig up a broken air line.
I noticed the same thing and thought that was odd. I always recall fireworks on MLK.
fulgoreXC
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not air...
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