Stopped off at the base on saturday 7/8 to check out the construction. As a caveat, I am no expert on these matters, but what I saw, and didn't see, was disconcerting. First of all, it doesn't appear they have made much progress on the new base lodge. The framing is not even close to being done. Considering they tore down the old structure in April, I would have thought there would be significantly more progress.

There appears to be a round foundation which has no structure on it at all. I may be crazy, but Timbers has not even been started.

They also put in a new road for a fire water reservior above the Snow Creek condos. The road starts between the upper level of the condos and the slope where the little shack is. It runs to an opening cut into the woods. There were a couple of construction guys there and they said the road is going to be paved. I would sincerely hope that this road is skiable in the winter.

Someone please tell me that the new lodge will be ready this winter.

I am sure Win will chime in soon.....

I'm not worried at all. It's over two months until the first frost, three months until the first snow, and almost five months before they open for primetime at South. I am confident they'll be ready.

When I watched the fire works on Monday evening there was no steel up. But by Thursday on my hike up Snowball to have lunch on top of Spring Fling they had all ready flew lots of steel on both the new Gatehouse and new work on Timbers. They where actively digging the hill behind Gatehouse out. They also where digging out the new water plant area between snowball and cats meow. The fire works were very nice!

Spooked a couple of turkeys on the hike up but got to see a couple flying below us looking down Spring Fling. Very cool visual.

Sugarbush's float won best in the 4th parade. \"Make Snow not War\" very nice!

What a beautiful week.

Got lots of hiking in to prepare for our trip to Chile in 24 days

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There appears to be a round foundation which has no structure on it at all. I may be crazy, but Timbers has not even been started.

Someone please tell me that the new lodge will be ready this winter.[/quote]



Timbers is being built off site and will be assembled at the Mt.

Again, Win will likely chime in with the facts, but the word I had was Timbers and the new lodge are prefab buildings, so we are much further along than we look.

And as for a rate of progress, I'd say they were cooking.

Yes, time to chime in. Everything is on schedule. The site work is usually the biggest task on projects like this. Sewers have to be installed, water pipes have to be connected, electrical conduits have to be installed and dirt has to be moved, etc. The Steel for the Gate House was put up in one week. The Post and Beam sections for Timbers restaurant have been cut and will be erected over the next three weeks. The Round \"thing\" you saw is the base of Timbers Restaurant and beneath it is the new Patrol Clinic. While the the Gate House is going to be a big improvement and will be larger and have a lot more in it, it is basically a simple building to build. Two floors and a lot of open space on the second floor. Pizzagalli has kept Claybrook right on schedule since day one and we are confident they will do the same thing for the new Gate House. The rain cost us a couple of days but that has been made up. Construction projects go in phrases. Fron the outside, you will see a lot of activity and then wonder why nothing seems to be happening when a lot is. Over the next couple of weeks, you will see major change in the base area and then there may appear from the outside to be nothing happening when it is. We will be posting pictures on our website, and I am sure Lostone will be passing along his thoughts and possibly pictures on his walks around the mountain. Do not fear! No skiing terrain is being removed! There has been a storage tank at the top of Cat's Meow for years. This is just another one in the ground for Claybrook.

By fall, we will also have the parking lots completed. The In and Out Road will be paved, and you will see a landscaped parking lot rather than a bare gravel lot. It is going to make for a much more attractive look in all four seasons. You will also notice that the new Village Road was completed right after the fourth and paved in one day (initial paving with a final coat once all the construction vehichle are gone this fall). Think snow starting in November this year and just the right amount of rain from this point forward.

We had a good week of sales on Claybrook!

Keep the questions coming?

Win

Win -

As always, thanks for the update. Since you opened the door, are you at liberty to share with us the status of Claybrook sales? If you just take a simple count of availability graphic on the Lincoln Peak Village website, it looks like you've been stuck at 60-65% for a while. But I'm not sure how often that's updated, if at all.

Also, am I to understand that the area between the GH lodge and Claybrook will be pedestrians only this winter? IOW, will all skiers need to traverse uphill from the new GH lodge when moving from Super Bravo to Gate House?

Reporting the sales isn't something I really talk about because it can be misleading unless one goes into a lot of detail. We try to update the availabe inventory when the P&S is signed, the deposit is made and the legal recission period has expired. We have continued to sell units every month, although as expected the activity slows from April to September. This summer we have seen more activity than last year, and we continue to have many interested discussions going on. There is only one five bedroom and only one four bedroom available for whole ownership, and we are down to a few three bedrooms available for whole ownership. As expected the higher floors (3 and four) have sold first and they are almost entirely spoken for. People assume the views from them will be great, and they are. The surpise is how good the views are from the 1st and 2nd floor and one can only appreciate that when you get into the building. The 1st residential floor is actually the 2nd floor as the garage is at the parking lot level. We are giving prospects tours, and we will have a model unit available in a couple of weeks. We are feeling good about where we are with sales

Yes, the area in between will be pedestrian and skiers will traverse on skis behind the new Gate House. This area has been expanded and is about 75 feet wide now, so it will be a much more pleasant traverse than has been the case in the past. Also the area around the Bravo lift is being regraded so that the corral areas will be flatter and wider and should improve the traffic flow considerably.

Thanks for the reply, Win! Great to have you in here updating folks and getting out the facts.

Here a couple of pics from today. Think it will look great when it is done!
http://forums.skimrv.com/modules.php?set_albumName=album04&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php

I was on the other side, checking out the width of the traverse area. I wasn't really able to see it, as I would either be below the dirt near the Gatehouse lift, or above where the hill drops off. Then, I couldn't see how level the bottom of the dug out area was.

I decided I had to get to the other side, and planned it for tonight.

Actually I have a million pictures that I haven't gotten around to posting, so even if I had the shots, you'd have still probably posted the pix before me. (The lodge will probably be built before I get around to posting them. )

But looking at the situaltion as it appeared last night, and from the pix this morning, it does look like there will be a ton of room.

Remembering that I am only looking at the foundation and the metal work, this certainly looks larger than the Gatehouse lodge was. I think we're gonna like this folks!

....what exactly buildings A4a, A4b, B2 and B1 (lodging, services ?) are on the site plan (link below)

http://www.lincolnpeakvillage.com/ezstatic/data/lincolnpeakvillage/i/siteplan_large.jpg

but I was checking it out and realized I didn't know about those ones and I'm a curious one.

Total Gate House Lodge is just under 24,000 square feet. The second floor cafeteria will have seating for at least 400 in comparison to the "Old" lodge and tent that had 250 seats. Because of the high ceilings it is going to look even larger. The new Castle Rock Pub will have additional lunch seats of 80-100 and Timbers will have approximately 150. That is a nice increase over what existed in both the old Gate House and The Valley House. As I previously mentioned, there will not be any served food service in the Valley House, but the cafeteria will be open and heated. It can be used and there will be quite a few vending machines for drinks, candy and other food. The Mushroom will be available for private functions and catered if desired. The bathrooms down stairs will also be open to all. The Wunderbar space is being used by Pizzagalli until all punch list items have been completed.