Does Rumor get groomed?

Harvey wrote

IMO the goal is not to turn double blacks into single blacks.  Save Lower Steilhang!

+1,000!!!

Please leave the double diamonds alone for the skiers who can handle it.

no it was rude. I did expect some A-hole to respond like this though. Like I said I have been on steeps. Spent a week at Tahoe and Heavenly earlier in the year and they groom their steeps. They have a winch support at the top and I was wondering if Gore might ever install one.

Scott wrote

no it was rude. I did expect some A-hole to respond like this though. Like I said I have been on steeps. Spent A week at Tahoe and Heavenly earlier in the year and they groom their steeps. They have a winch support at the top and I was wondering if Gore might ever install one.

There is a winch point for Rumor at the top.

If I had to guess I'd say they groom it maybe twice a season?

Don't get me wrong, if it's groomed I definitely hit it, and if it was groomed often I'd hit it more often.

But it isn't easy to do and to me it seems like a logical place to economize since it creates an opportunity for experts.

Scott wrote

 no it was rude. I did expect some A-hole to respond like this though.

True. However, though it took him long enough, MC2 FINALLY got something right.....

mattchuck2 wrote

 Don't need dick pills when you're a natural dick like me.

He may have even achieved a consensus ! Brilliant !

if you can't ski it, don't ski it

If I had my way, it would never be groomed.      Sometime ago, I brought 3 friends to ski Gore.   I spoke of Rumor's headwall, bumps, drops etc for years.    We got there right after a grooming...   We skied 3 days midweek, there were not enough skiers or fresh snow to bump it up in the cold weather.   Lost some cred that year.     They ultimately came back and loved it.    

My answer to dealing with the big drops that some folks don't like is not to groom them, but to fill them with blown snow.   Direct that gun to fill it up, with ice or whatever.    

I have had the same experience at Kmart with Superstar.     Drove 8 hours to ski the bumps.....which were flattened.    That said, like a previous writer noted, the next day, we had fresh new bumps.    Kmart locals know how to bump it up quick.

Dont groom Rumor!   Ever.      Hello....  "Rumor"        

SIAWOL wrote

if you can't ski it, don't ski it

if only that happened

snoloco wrote

I say buy another winch cat and groom it more.  Unless it is a powder day, I always enjoy groomed more than ungroomed.  Just my $0.02.

Sno you need to invest in a bump program. The freestyle group my son skis in at our local hill skis bumps About half the time 6 hrs a weekend. Ski with a group like that for a season and you will be searching for bumps!

Rumor gets dangerous after it's groomed, IMO. At least if we get a super cold, dry stretch. I once watched an elderly gentleman fall on his first turn off the goat path, lose a ski, and slide head first into the woods at the bottom. He accelerated the entire way. I grabbed his ski and got down to him fast. Oddly enough he was fine, but watching him ragdoll out of control the length of the trail was pretty scary. Lucky day I guess.

I don't mind one groom to pack the base, then letting it pile up over the course of the season.

snoloco wrote

I say buy another winch cat and groom it more.  Unless it is a powder day, I always enjoy groomed more than ungroomed.  Just my $0.02.

I say lay off the suggestions until you have to buy your own season pass...

AND see MC's advice. If you can't ski it as is, there's always Cloud to Headwaters.

I saw a guy do that on Lies. It was tumble, tumble - bounce the whole way down.

YUKON CORNELIUS wrote

I don't mind one groom to pack the base, then letting it pile up over the course of the season.

I took a pass at it last week, that's what I thought. The snow was soft and it was easy to ski but I was dodging rocks all over the place. It needs a pass of the groomer just to pack it in and then let it be.

Pretty sure it got groomed. It's skiing well, but they blew a bunch of snow on skier's left from the goat path that is rock solid and all janked up. The lollipops did not lie today...

What is the goat path?

from hawkeye
it puts you on the trail under the headwall
i'm not sure but  I think it's only open when top of trail is not.
 

Thanks, I know the spot.

Groomed again.

It gets pretty boring groomed as you can rip the whole thing in no time. It's too short to be much fun when groomed out,  maybe if it were twice as long...

YUKON CORNELIUS wrote

Groomed again.

It gets pretty boring groomed as you can rip the whole thing in no time. It's too short to be much fun when groomed out,  maybe if it were twice as long...

That one that's twice is long is a bit further north. Skyward!

Skyward is kind of boring when it's groomed out too, although the view is better.