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It’ll be a shitshow through the weekend. Snow won’t ramp up enough to help with open terrain tomorrow, but will make the drive home exciting.Quote:
Originally Posted by jhyatt
If you are lucky there will be some form of top to bottom skiing, but they were still downloading this morning. With today’s traffic and terrain I know folks were calling it after 1 lap.
Are your nephews paying you overtime holiday hazard pay rates for this?
If you just want to embrace the craziness, you can get some sliding on snow. I wouldn't buy a ticket or burn an Icon day unless the skiing was top to bottom, because the maximum number of runs with downloading in play is small--the lift isn't fast to begin with, it runs slower with foot traffic and stops for each foot load and unload.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenris
Previous management used to just slow it for download boarding, but I have to admit that felt pretty sketchy.
They are showing Cascades as open, ungroomed on the report, so that would suggest top to bottom skiing. YMMV as to how much you want to actually lap it before it's groomed out, though.
Ugh. Ok. Thanks. Looks like we are going regardless.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenris
Does Locke have a mid station for downloading?
I kind of remember that.
Now this makes sense why it will suck.
I'll burn an icon day but I never use all my sr days anyway.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Skiing is fun. Skiing is fun. Skiing is fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by anotherVTskibum
Happy Thanksgiving!
Yep. It’s kind of an oddity as they can collapse the ramps out of the way for the rest of the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by jhyatt
They were planning on opening Jordan early for the public and trying to keep Locke for racing. Unfortunately upper management committed their usual sin of ignoring reality and mis-specced the snowmaking upgrade for out there, so they can’t turn things down and get pressure when there isn’t much water.
Typical Someday Bigger. Boy that place has changed over the last 10 years. Fingers crossed K gets dumped on!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenris
I'm thankful for this information which I used to convince my crew to stay put.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenris
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Originally Posted by jhyatt
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Do you happen to know how this year's water levels stack up historically, for the same time of year? I can't recall another fall this dry, but I may have forgotten.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenris
Stowe has been regularly updating their snow report.Quote:
Originally Posted by FigureELEVEN11
Source: I know the reporter(s)
‘Magin the past 40 years! I grew up there skiing ‘79-‘89 and it was an amazing place to Rat Pack around as a teen. I haven’t been back to ski in 20+ years. I think about going back sometimes, but think it’s best to keep my happy memories and not go yell at clouds.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhishingME
My first time at SR was Christmas week of 79. 12 of us were renting a house on Conway Lake (NH) that slept 6. Made the hookups “interesting”.Quote:
Originally Posted by singlecross
That was the year it didn’t snow - I remember ORDA had to truck manmade snow from Gore upta L Placid so they could do the Nordic events at the Olympics that February. Loon was horrific and I’m pretty sure Wildcat wasn’t even open. We went to SR and it was fantastic. Real snow and nobody there.
Have been back a coupla times and I don’t recognize it as the place we skied that Christmas week.
Happy Thanksgiving all!
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Thanks for the nerd sniping.Quote:
Originally Posted by anotherVTskibum
There isn't a good river gage on the Sunday River (I've tried), but the Wild River provides a pretty good analogue most of the time (spotty summer thunderstorms being the biggest exception).
I quickly pulled down and mangled the last 30 years of daily average flows for the Wild, resampling it down to the yearly average August-December flows, and it ain't great.
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This year's average flow for the period is around 62 CFS, and the 30 year mean is 167. In the 30 year window, this is the 4th lowest water year with 2001 (40), 2002 (46), and 2016 (56) all being drier.
Yes I know I've read it daily. Wildcat still gets no blurb nor does Sunapee. They don't want to let people ride lifts until Spruce and Mansfield base areas have midseason snow I guess they expected packed lots and midseason crowds this weekend were they to open and couldn't do that with just snow around the chair and lineup. I don't think its corporate bean counting either as even with the worst conditions they would want people at those base areas at Stowe this week spending money.Quote:
Originally Posted by vt_ski
Wildcat pre Vail was the GOAT early season WROD for New England.
I figured something out locally. Amazing what a thousand feet of vert will do.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...33fb0b8616.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by ticketchecker
6” at noon, 10” at 3pm and now a foot at 5.
Skiing is fun. Grateful to make turkey turns. Not sure why sideways…..
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Thanksgiving provided some much appreciated snow yesterday.
My young Jedi joined for leg shuffling
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A foot of snow and extended cold temps… looks like it’s on.
Enjoy Mags!
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Surprisingly decent out there.
Lot of win on this page. Happy Festivus season to all
Great stoke, all!
Hit MRG at sunset, still sone fresh turns to be found. Definetely heading back tomorrow.
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Summit patrol House is going to need digging out.
Great opening day at Cannon with fresh tracks and sunshine.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e5d5bca023.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e02021ebc6.jpg
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I don’t have fat enough skis for Western NY. They are getting buried
Oh hell yeah! Dig seeing Cannon looking like that in Nov!Quote:
Originally Posted by jhyatt
Frekinsweetbud!
Sadly there are no lifts spinning in WNY
Bust some Rime
Sun looks great and Indy visit this year in the cards
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Earning and turning today
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I went to the edge
And there I stood and looked down
I've skied with a lot of friends there
Gonna keep doing it long as I can
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Doing my best to keep em tight bitch
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Originally Posted by cat in january
Dat graphic was the Tug Hill Plateau norf of da 'Cuse. Definitely not WNY. But most definitely Upstate.Quote:
Originally Posted by charlesj
way to get at it all. some much needed stoke.
The Sherb is in!:wink:
Social media is going to kill an entire generation;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Vt-Freeheel
You say that as if it’s a bad thingQuote:
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its above the tug on that map… dry hill is the only place gettin’ hit in that graphic . gonna need a southerly drift ta drop anything significant on snow ridge, mccauley or woods valley.Quote:
Originally Posted by MyNameIsAugustWest
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Lowville is most definitely on the Tug Hill Plateau.Quote:
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Hey Beavis he said tug. HeheheQuote:
Originally Posted by m2711c
this deserves a bump :yourock:
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Originally Posted by cat in january
Looks like Old Forge got a foot or soQuote:
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