What the heck is going on at Magic?

[lotsarocks]

No, not last weekend, but yes weekend before. Anyway they are busy blowing snow 24/7 again, so all is well with brokeass mountain.

 

[Abominable]

"brokeass mountain"

Ha!

 

[zoomzoom]

someone here mentioned that a guy from colorado was working on the black drive, no updates that i know of. they're advertising 5inch of new stuff in the last 24hrs. prob should go thursday. : )

 

[reefer]

someone here mentioned that a guy from colorado was working on the black drive, no updates that i know of. they're advertising 5inch of new stuff in the last 24hrs. prob should go thursday. : )

Pretty sure they are closed Thursday...................... again, according to the Alpine Update link off their facebook page. Some bitchin' going on. I'm thinking I may head over there Friday just to get some turns in.

 

[Treepopper]

It appears they are not going to open tomorrow for Throwback Thursday?
WTF is going on in this place?!?!

 

[NYDB]

I feel really bad for seasons pass holders. I purchased a thursday ticket on groupon for $15 a month ago which I haven't been able to use since they aren't really open thursdays. That makes me a bit angry.

I can't imagine giving them $600 and having them screw me like that. I'd be wicked pissed.

 

[zoomzoom]

well, crappola. they're advertising 5inches of new snow tues, snow showers tonight and thursday, but not open thursday? maybe i'll try them after the holidays, on the 25th. :roll:

 

[slatham]

I can buy not being open last Thursday after the rain. But not opening tomorrow? When you say your operating schedule is Thur-Sun, you better have a good reason to not be open, like last Thursday. Surprised the conspiracy theorists aren't claiming Red is down or the lodge failed a health inspection or some other tragedy. I guess everyone just realizes its management. To be honest I was afraid they wouldn't be open next week, especially since I will be up to finally claim my pass and make some Magic turns. Hope its a strong end to the season these next 6 weeks. THINK SNOW!

 

[lotsarocks]

I can buy not being open last Thursday after the rain. But not opening tomorrow? When you say your operating schedule is Thur-Sun, you better have a good reason to not be open, like last Thursday. Surprised the conspiracy theorists aren't claiming Red is down or the lodge failed a health inspection or some other tragedy. I guess everyone just realizes its management. To be honest I was afraid they wouldn't be open next week, especially since I will be up to finally claim my pass and make some Magic turns. Hope its a strong end to the season these next 6 weeks. THINK SNOW!

Well to your point, they weren't serving food last Saturday. Was told it wasn't due to them forgetting to order food or anything trivial like that sooo.

 

[thetrailboss]

Well to your point, they weren't serving food last Saturday. Was told it wasn't due to them forgetting to order food or anything trivial like that sooo.

They had no food service last weekend?!


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[lotsarocks]

Not sat at 3:30 when we tried to order. Sux cause I planned to stay awhile. Next week I guess.

 

[ss20]

Well to your point, they weren't serving food last Saturday. Was told it wasn't due to them forgetting to order food or anything trivial like that sooo.

They had no food service last weekend?!


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Not sat at 3:30 when we tried to order. Sux cause I planned to stay awhile. Next week I guess.

I'm on the floor right now. You can't make this stuff up!!!

 

[BlueTrails]

No food service is interesting if true. Over the JS years, many accounts went into arrears and Magic got a bad rep as a debtor, thus many suppliers went into COD mode. Fuel oil for snow making and food services were in this category. Magic had to pay cash in the parking lot.....no joke. I was up last weekend and lines were short. I don't believe there is much cash coming into the mountain anywhere except the bar. So beer sales are probably all that is keeping payroll alive. Cutting Thursdays would help the payroll load. No food would indicate we might have fallen behind on our invoices in that department. I suspect that if you want to help the mountain, the best thing to do is buy beer. The ski season is a bust. My friend tells me Okemo has cut their condo prices by over 50% for President's week. This means the big mountains know this season is over and are in total SALE mode. I drove by Bromley this past weekend and they were way below normal activity. This past weekend was Boy Scout Ski Weekend. They usually host about 2000 kids. The only pulled in about 200.

 

[Sorcerer]

Well to your point, they weren't serving food last Saturday. Was told it wasn't due to them forgetting to order food or anything trivial like that sooo.

I heard something happened to the propane delivery system. It was fixed and there was food later - at least I got some.

 

[slatham]

Anyone have local knowledge of how much snow they got last night? Report says 1" but wondering if it hasn't been updated given Bromley 3-5" and Mt Snow and Stratton 4". Or was it all upslope along the spine of the Greens and Magic lost out? Hoping they can pick up enough to open some natural. Should be a bit more with the artic front. Then we need overdrive on snowdances for next week......

 

[Tin]

At least Sarr is doing well on the FB PR front.

 

[lotsarocks]

I heard something happened to the propane delivery system. It was fixed and there was food later - at least I got some.

That's good to hear. Was hoping it wasn't an inspection thing. Locally we have some overzealous fire inspectors that shut places down right before busy weekends for nonsense stuff.

 

[drjeff]

Mental note made to BRING some food this coming Monday when my kids have a race there!! Especially since Magic is also scheduled to host a race there this Sunday

While me and my wife would be OK sustaining ourselves on the "Liquid Nutrition" available at the BLT, I'm guessing they'd have an issue serving it to a 10 and 12yr old! :beer:

 

[Sorcerer]

Anyone have local knowledge of how much snow they got last night? Report says 1" but wondering if it hasn't been updated given Bromley 3-5" and Mt Snow and Stratton 4". Or was it all upslope along the spine of the Greens and Magic lost out? Hoping they can pick up enough to open some natural. Should be a bit more with the artic front. Then we need overdrive on snowdances for next week......

1 to 2". I think the others are reporting the 2 day total. I went by Bromley and there was no 3-5" of new snow unless they found a spot on top.

 

[Do Work]

Anyone have local knowledge of how much snow they got last night? Report says 1" but wondering if it hasn't been updated given Bromley 3-5" and Mt Snow and Stratton 4". Or was it all upslope along the spine of the Greens and Magic lost out? Hoping they can pick up enough to open some natural. Should be a bit more with the artic front. Then we need overdrive on snowdances for next week......

We have gotten a pretty decent smattering spread out over this week from what I've been told by people up there. Couple inches on the 9th (I heard 3-4") and apparently another 4-5" last night into this morning. We really lucked out last night!! All things considered the snow should be really good this weekend, hopefully it is of at least medium denisty so we can get around a little! I'm looking forward to hearing back from some friends who area out skinning it today, this is likely the best conditions we have looked since that first hit. Given the little bit of snowmaking they did to shore up the existing trails and open a few new east side options, this is looking to be a really fun weekend!