Did Gore and WF use their money wisely ?

IMO implying that Gore and Whiteface don't think long and hard about how to spend snowmaking money is uniformed. (Or Killington for that matter.)  That just doesn't make any sense. Every mountain tries to make the most of what they spend on electricity.

Last weekend Gore and Whiteface were able to open and some other mountains who made snow couldn't. What is the evaluation of those efforts?  Not sure about WF, but Gore sold 1000 single day tickets over three days in addition to whatever food, lessons and rentals.

You may disagree with ORDAs evaluation of weather and business potential (both long and short term), but that doesn't equate to those GMs spending that money frivolously.  That's just not reality.  I know both Bruce and Mike and that is not who they are. These are guys who think as far ahead as is practical and try to put out the best, longest season they can.

Harvey44 wrote

... if you were gm at Gore would you blow the next four nights and open on Saturday?

This question still stands.

NWS lows for the next 7 days for Gore: 18, 11, 24, 30, 34, 26, 14.

I can only assume that Whiteface will be colder.

Good idea for a thread BTW.

+1 on what Harv said in the post above ^^.

I'm also waiting to hear the logic on why things worked out for WF but not for Gore:

JasonWx wrote

sounds like WF made the right decision..

sounds like Gore , well, maybe not..

A lot of Monday morning quarterbacking here. Gore woke up to 10" of new snow the day before Thanksgiving. The skiing was pretty good on opening day.

Am I missing something?

if gore did in fact sell 1k day tickets, then they too made the right decision..

You know what the funniest thing about this thread is...If Gore and WF had not chosen to open the name of this thread would "why didn't they try to open"

Jason as I said before, just bring us some snow, and it will be all better!

Darkside Shaman wrote

Jason as I said before, just bring us some snow, and it will be all better!

nothing would make me happier..unfortunately it ain't in the cards...
would you settle for a unseasonably warm and sunny weekend?

NO! Please return to sender!

Shaman is right, if they didnt open they would have been crucified- 10"  and didnt open, why bother being a ski resort, would've been a busy thread