Will we be skiing on 11/19?
Looks like a solid window to make some snow this weekend, but next week is looking dicey.
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Will we be skiing on 11/19?
Looks like a solid window to make some snow this weekend, but next week is looking dicey.
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Finally snowmaking at the base of heavens gate.[emoji2]
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It was nice to finally see snowmaking at the base of HG late this afternoon on the cam.
I figured at best you'll have skiing off HG but decided it wouldn't be worth the drive up with the current weather forecast so made my yearly eye dr appt for 11/19. So while there may be skiing, I won't be there. Looks like it will be December for my first turns this year. I'm still rooting for them to be able to open for 11/19 though. We'll see what kind of production they get from snowmaking this weekend. While the weather this week doesn't look good for snowmaking, I also don't think it looks bad enough to melt too much if they can put down enough this weekend.
It will be a little dicey. Looks like a better weather pattern may present itself the weekend before Thanksgiving. If they can't make the 19th, I'd be shocked if they don't hit Black Friday.
...not sure but it looks as though at ME too.
I wonder how the fake stuff is holding up
Next 4 days aren't going to be helpful, but if the pattern changes the way it looks on Sunday, I would say that there should be skiing/riding on Wed, if not earlier...
Saturday night could prove to be fruitful.
And would be a great way to set up a string of sub 32 days going into following weekend.
I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility to have downloading on Wednesday and potential t2b by weekend if the forecast holds...
I'm a bit surprised the snow report seems to still be holding out hope of opening this weekend.
They posted pictures of the glen house area and that looked ready to go. It would be a surprise but if the lifts are ready to go they could open Mt. Ellen.
Also looks like Stowe has already moved their opening day to Wednesday. Their report mentions lack of snow around the base area. Sucks not having an upper mountain lift lol.
They updated the snow report and posted on Facebook that they are pushing opening day back to Wednesday at LP with Jester, Upper OG, and Downspout with downloading on Super Bravo.
We skied ME today which would have been the best shot. Given the warm days forecasted through Sunday we are putting off opening until next Wednesday. The first few might have had some nice turns but it would get trashed quickly. Looks like good snowmaking temps starting late Sunday so we will most likely open LP with downloading and skiing Upper Jester, Upper Organgrinder and Downspout and trying to get top to bottom asap. We will attempt to have Upper Jester and Elbow for some of the World Cup competitors to train on.
... and thanks to Nick, we're back online
I was worried we would never see this forum again!
Me too! Anybody with some computer experience willing to take it off Nick's hands? I'm sure he wouldn't mind.
I can not access through my work PC. It is still getting blocked. Quick update.. trails with snowmaking held up really well after the rain, so we can focus on expanding terrain once temps come down. Looks like Ripcord next..
Win...what's the reasoning behind listing 9 trails open when the paying public can only get to 4? Yesterday it said 4 trails, and then today I looked and saw 9 trails....got very excited that the new snowfall opened up some additional terrain. Then scrolled the trail listing to find 5 listed as open at Mt Ellen? I only ask because I was so pumped that maybe the new snow opened more terrain and then it was like getting your heart ripped out haha.
Not a huge fan of including that in the trail count for what can only be purely marketing purposes. This weekend will there be 9 trails open yet only 4 that paying people can ski on?
What do you mean..... GVS pays to ski there. ;-)
actually I don't care about the count as long as they keep blowing snow.
The trails at ME are open but reserved for race training by GMVS. These trails are marked "R" on the snow report.. They do pay to have these trails open. Sorry for any confusion.
We are blowing snow on both mountains whenever temps allow now. Waiting for temps to get lower in next few days.
13" of new snow past two days!
I'm seeing 9" in last 24 hours on report but snow cam says 6-7".
Either way game on!
It snowed all yesterday afternoon. I think they cleaned off the board in the afternoon so that was the other 3". Good skiing. Again mother nature bailed them out with snow from heaven.
Well there is a 24 hour loop and it only got cleared once...and a time stamp lol. It's pretty easy to see what's happening and it's 6-7" in 24 hours, just interested if maybe the groomers thought it was low or something?
Doesn't matter but some of us are anal retentive on this stuff.
I would say you should be thrilled whether it's 6-7 or 9". I'm in a hospital in West Chester, PA right now with my new baby daughter, Evie, who arrived 6am this morning. As such, this will be the first year my family hasn't spent the week between xmas and new years at Sugarbush in over a decade. At least I got skimrv back so I can live vicariously thru you all. Enjoy the pow
Snowed all day and is still snowing now. Hope it continues overnight.
We had been cleaning the.stake in the morning and before our 1pm snowplan meeting. Overnight Friday we got 6" and then another 6" by 1pm.
We have decided to do it differently going forward and started yesterday afternooon. We will clean the stake once a day at 3:45pm. That way one can see what got overnight and cumulatively through the day.
How many times a day to clear the snow stake. Now that is a good problem to have😆😆
What very cool is watching the 1 week time lapse. Too bad it does not go further out than 1 week.
I will miss your posts, Howie. Hope you can get up at least a few times.
Any word about possible expansion latter this week for the Valley House side. The pictures that I see from SB looks great. but if they go into this weekend with only two lifts running it could be a shit show with the amount of skiers they may.