Rest assured that there are lots on that dance floor!

It's a big floor!

Treeskier wrote:

Working up a good sweat Dancing hard. Could use a few more people on the dance floor. Doing my Snow Dance!

May I have this one? ; }

I hiked up to the bottom of Spread Eagle this afternoon and passed WCAX (channel 3) coming down in one of our trucks with Hardy and JJ. They filmed our snowmaking and it will be on the 11pm news tonight.


Snowguns have been running continuously since midnight last Friday night, with 1 to 2 feet of snow now on Upper Rim Run at Mt Ellen, and Elbow getting whiter by the hour. As of Sunday afternoon, 50 snowguns are running to connect a white line from the top to the bottom of the Summit lift. As soon as this run can be skied, we will be open! Temps were marginal at midflats by the Glen House but getting better tonight, so this is where the most snow is going to be needed over the next few days. As temps come down more guns can be added.

Snowmaking has also been in production at Lincoln Peak since Saturday evening, on Upper Organgrinder and Downspout trails. Lincoln Peak is still scheduled to open on December 9.

Our snowmakers at ME saw two bear running across Elbow today! Hopefully they were running to hibernate! It's time!

Win,
I absolutely love these up-to-the-minute updates. Now is there anyway we can get them right onto sugarbush.com so curious folks who aren't part of this community can see them too? Maybe even a seperate "Win's Word" or "Words from Win" column with a nice little picture of you in the upper corner or something. At least in my eyes it seems like this would be a great marketing move as well, really put a tangible face on the resort to add to the already very personal resort experience that you guys have set up.

Even minus the whole personal column, it would be excellent if someone could go on to sugarbush.com and on the lift/trail report see that there is in fact snowmaking on Rim Run and Elbow and the rest. Would definitely make others as thrilled as we are that our season is quickly approaching.

Think Snow!

Strat wrote:

Win, I absolutely love these up-to-the-minute updates. Now is there anyway we can get them right onto sugarbush.com so curious folks who aren't part of this community can see them too? Maybe even a seperate "Win's Word" or "Words from Win" column with a nice little picture of you in the upper corner or something. At least in my eyes it seems like this would be a great marketing move as well, really put a tangible face on the resort to add to the already very personal resort experience that you guys have set up. Even minus the whole personal column, it would be excellent if someone could go on to sugarbush.com and on the lift/trail report see that there is in fact snowmaking on Rim Run and Elbow and the rest. Would definitely make others as thrilled as we are that our season is quickly approaching. Think Snow!

Great call, Strat. I couldn't agree more on all counts. Make it happen, Win!!!

http://www.sugarbush.com/snowandtrails/snowreport.asp

Much better

From what I can see of Mt. Ellen from home (Fiddlehead), Elbow is at least coated. The guns were on it most of the day today. Everything else was well cloud covered. Somehow Mt Ellen seemed to miss out on most of the snow that Lincoln Peak got the last couple of nights. Maybe tonight?????

Anyway, let's think snow, and as Strat said... Win, thanks for the constant updates.

Communication is key.

Thanks Win/Sugarbush for keeping us informed on what is going on day to day. To the Chatters/Strat do understand that we passionately read the chat room day to day to find out what happened in the last hours. But in the snow report...I understand that general public often reviews the report every several days/the day of a trip.. after not looking at it for multiple days/weeks to see what is up. So realize that the snow report needs to be a little more global and generically correct. For example on a Thursday after two days of rain but a weekend audience reviewing.... the snow report would probably say something like " back part of the storm brought us snow with 1 " new. Snow making on XXXXXX & XXXX with X trails and X lifts running.

Thanks Win for keeping us informed on a more hourly/daily snow report.

Doing my snow dance.

Treeskier wrote:

Communication is key. Thanks Win/Sugarbush for keeping us informed on what is going on day to day. To the Chatters/Strat do understand that we passionately read the chat room day to day to find out what happened in the last hours. But in the snow report...I understand that general public often reviews the report every several days/the day of a trip.. after not looking at it for multiple days/weeks to see what is up. So realize that the snow report needs to be a little more global and generically correct. For example on a Thursday after two days of rain but a weekend audience reviewing.... the snow report would probably say something like " back part of the storm brought us snow with 1 " new. Snow making on XXXXXX & XXXX with X trails and X lifts running. Thanks Win for keeping us informed on a more hourly/daily snow report. Doing my snow dance.

Not trying to be confrontational at all, just wondering how the sample report you provided contradicts what Tin and I were requesting... as long as the report is clear and thorough I don't see quite why it would be an issue for any audience to view... I mean my suggestion is I believe most effective in this early season time when there's confusion amongst the general public about how much snowmaking there is going on and where, and we of the forum much appreciate Win enlightening in this regard, but I mean if I picture a potential skier from, say, Massachusetts who is thinking about coming up for Thanksgiving but may decide not to if he doesn't see any evidence of a push to open from sugarbush.com, his only source of info, then what happens?

Just don't see how it would hurt in any way. Maybe even keep up an archive of the last few hours'/days' reports so these once-a-week checkers could see how things have progressed? Can it hurt to provide more information rather than less?

Ditto Strat....

Communication is key and Details are important. The sno-phone can give the "global and generically correct" info. The "more" detailed report can be on the website?

Quick answer is it depends on how the program is set up and how much time the people updating it have to spend on that task. Remember this is a set program, and the ability to make small changes may not be there.

Still, never any harm in asking.

As for the people looking in on reports, here, anyone can look in. Only those registered can post, but most people don't want to post, most of the time. But we welcome all to look in and see what is up on the mountain(s) and in the valley.

This thread (as of now) has 23 posts and 1334 views. There are a lot more people looking in, here than those posting.

We welcome all to look in. If there is something you would like to see, speak up. If it involves gathering info, you're also welcome to gather that info.

We're very fortunate to have input from Win and others at the mountain. We're also happy to have input from Eric at MRG (When he comes out of hibernation. ) and from Noski, on things related to the valley.

The Website for the mountain has far more information collected in a far more organized fashion than we could ever hope to have here, other than the little tricks such as saying "See what is happening at the mountain?"

What we do have, here, is the ability to say, "I didn't get this aspect. Could someone explain it to me?" And there might possibly be somebody here that knows the answer and might even be willing to offer it.

This thread (as of now) has 23 posts and 1334 views. There are a lot more people looking in, here than those posting. Wink

I don't know how accurate that it is b/c most of the posters (and regulars) are logging multiple views. Correct me if I'm wrong. I would think a very small percentage of those interested actually check out this board.

I agree with the multiple views per poster, and even say that for every post, there are two views.

Still, there are a lot of people looking in that don't post, or post very seldom. I speak to them all the time.

Well I am heading to SB in about 2 or 3 hours, (it is 2 in the morning now ) I guess, I will have a few days to train, wax my skis, and polish up my edges. The snowmaking progress sounds promising, and I guess things might warm up on monday, but monday night at mid flats level will supposedly be arround 15 degrees so it looks like they will be able to keep things going consistantly into the middle of the week.

At least the weather forcast hasn't has stayed pretty neutral, and moved a bit to the cold side.....

Win, I really appreciate the up to the minuet updates, and I like the fact you are personaly involved in customer relation, something pretty unique to the Sugarbush Management.

if SB opens up say thursday, is there any chance some first-timer slopes might be open as well? or would it really only be blues and blacks?
My wife has never skied before, and I'd love to come, but only if there's a chance she'll get to ski on thurs and fri.
also, is there anything else to do in the area other than ski? (in case [heaven forbid] there is no skiing)