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Mount Snow will want to show off all their new fancy fan guns.
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Mount Snow will want to show off all their new fancy fan guns.
I'd say the weather patterns have to be nearly perfect for Mount Snow to beat Sunday River...the River is at least 125 miles further north.Mount Snow..... Peak has got their shit together for sure...
Mount Snow..... Peak has got their shit together for sure...
I'd say the weather patterns have to be nearly perfect for Mount Snow to beat Sunday River...the River is at least 125 miles further north.
But doesn't Mount Snow have a higher base elevation..and it is farther from the warm late fall ocean as well..
Sunday River because they have the Locke Triple with a mid station so that you can ski the top of locke down to the midstation and load there to get to the top again. This allows them to make snow up top and open when it is to warm at the base to get snow down there.
As to getting the goods first.. = Stowe.
...just a guess..
It does, but probably only about 600 feet. SR is about 100 miles North of Snow, but I'd say it's pretty debatable which area would be colder that time of year.
Early season bragging rights aren't necessarily all about physical location and stature though. Woodbury proves this.
Conceivably, any area in New England that has a decent snowmaking system and gets a 36-48 hour window to blow snow could get the first to open PR.
I think how north an area is, their elevation and slope aspect plays a much greater factor in the spring in terms of holding snow than in the fall when everyone's hoping the ground freezes. This is why Sugarloaf typically has better late season goods than just about anybody despite averaging 100 inches of snow less than the northern greens. This same advantage is kinda lost in November when the weather is so volatile.
Anyone who actually wastes their time driving more than 15 minutes to Woodbury
Not Happening:-D Stowe typically opens with a top to bottom 2000+ vert route from the top of the quad which takes quite a bit of time to open...plus unless it dumps 3 feet..they usually open a week or two before Thanksgiving..
I'm still leaning towards Mt. Snow. Peak was out to prove a point last year and I don't see them stopping.. They earned the respect of a LOT of people last year and I'd imagine they'd want to continue that as short term investments can equal long term gains... If there is any chance whatsoever for them to make snow... I see them starting the guns up and working OT to maintain the fan base they got last year. I don't know how much of an impact they made up there, but BB opening when they did last year was a major hit down here in Pa. With their addition and investment of the new big snowmaking guns....I'd imagine they will want to show who's the mack daddy pimp fo sho' up there..
When there's a will.... there's normally a way