Mount Peter Conditions

Best man made sugar I've ever skied in my life. 12/26/2013, Mt. Peter.

Followed my kids' school group up for an evening session yesterday. Must say for a pimple of a ski hill, they do a damn good job making and maintaining their snow. Had a chance to let the cosmetically-marred (?) Hell And Backs run on frozen granular-nice flyers. Too bad it's no more than 5 turns top to bottom.

It was about 10F (-10 windchill supposedly) at Mt Peter today, which was  cold enough to keep the crowds away. Once the race kids were done practicing it was like a weekday, no lines at all. We squeezed 15 runs into a two hour visit. It was crazy windy too, blowing from the base area uphill, so much so that it actually slowed you down a little.

These guys lit up the guns last night as soon as the school groups departed, apparently in contrast to the big guys according to the other threads.

From FB:
"GREAT NEWS!
Are you a family of three who gets
 frustrated that someone has to ride the lift alone?
Would your two kids like to take a semi-private lesson together but are told no because the instructor can only take one child up the lift at a time?
Do you want to spend less time in lift line and more time on the mountain?
 You spoke, and we listened!! This summer, Mount Peter will be installing a brand new quad lift to service our beginner and intermediate terrain. This is just step one in our newly designed five-year plan.
We are super excited and wanted to let you know!!!
 Big changes are coming, don't miss out!"

I have no idea where this is gonna get shoehorned in, maybe replacing SAMs chair... Shorter lifelines are always good of course.

Just re-upped on the season pass... such a great deal for this we'll run hill.

From FB... I admit I'm curious where this is going in.

So nice of them to finally do an update after demanding that the perfectly good one that I did back in May be deleted (which was a whole lot more detailed).  They were butt hurt that I knew more about lifts than them.  I will never ski there again under any circumstances.

They tried to shut down my interest in lift installations, but they will never succeed.  I was scared of doing my update on Belleayre because of what they did, but I knew I couldn't let the actions of one insignificant mole hill ruin my lifelong passion.

 Baby

For the record Mount Peter demanded nothing.  I took your report down based on a conversation that I had with management. I thought I had explained this to you.

It's probably me you should be pissed at.  Maybe boycott the ski area we are building at HQ. Actually I could probably use your advice on the best way to set up our tow.

That's a different story than you told back then.  I'm not happy about learning this.  You didn't try to "mend the fence".  You deliberately sided with them over me because you though that suited you best.  I still won't pay to ski at Mount Peter, but I guess would still go if I had a free ticket and brought lunch.

Here are the facts as I presented them to you then, and they haven't changed.

You went on Mount Peter's property without their knowledge and posted a great report about their new lift.  I shared it on facebook. The head of PR team at Mount Peter called me and said she was disappointed that they had been scooped on their biggest news in years, and requested that if you or anyone was coming on property to take photos or do a story in the off season that you contact them in advance.

I offered to take it down and she said she wanted to think about it. I went ahead and did it. This is exactly what I told you.

I'm not sure how you think this suited me. This is not the first time I've had an important relationship singed by you.

If they wanted to avoid being scooped, then they should've reported on it earlier than September, or put up a locked gate and obvious no trespassing signs at the entrance.  I can assure you none of those were there at the time.

It's dissapointing that they decided to act the way that they did after getting free positive publicity.  No other ski area I know of would've done that unless someone climbed over a fence and ignorned obvious signs to get pictures.  The person who runs Liftblog can confirm this for me as he travels all over the country doing exactly what I did at Mt Peter and Belleayre.  And he has never told ski areas that he was coming prior to when he did.  I don't know why they decided to make a big stink about my post, but I guess they don't understand that positive publicity on social media is exactly what any business should want.

What's even more dissappinting is your decision to delete the post that I put a lot of effort into making, when they didn't ask or demand you to.  You threw me under the bus, as well as everyone else who posted in the thread to advance your relationship with insiders at Mount Peter.  I have no respect for anyone who will throw someone under the bus to advance a relationship with someone else they see as more important.  This will make me think twice about posting reports like I did on here, knowing that you'll take the ski area's side if they don't like it.  I will still check out lift construction sites on my own time at every opportunity because I enjoy it and it interests me.

What a whinny little snot nosed kid you sound like. It's no wonder the only people who you ski with are creepy old men from the internet. Stick to scamming coupons out of your coupon book.  

They called me and said they were disappointed. Not a major crime. How you were thrown under the bus is beyond me.

snoloco wrote

If they wanted to avoid being scooped, then they should've reported on it earlier than September, or put up a locked gate and obvious no trespassing signs at the entrance.  I can assure you none of those were there at the time.

It's dissapointing that they decided to act the way that they did after getting free positive publicity.  No other ski area I know of would've done that unless someone climbed over a fence and ignorned obvious signs to get pictures.  The person who runs Liftblog can confirm this for me as he travels all over the country doing exactly what I did at Mt Peter and Belleayre.  And he has never told ski areas that he was coming prior to when he did.  I don't know why they decided to make a big stink about my post, but I guess they don't understand that positive publicity on social media is exactly what any business should want.

I like you, Sno, you seem like a good kid.  However, you're in the wrong here.  Is that what a place has to do?  Put up signs and fences?  Those are dollars taken away from snowmaking.  Arguably, you could have been charged with trespassing.

Businesses want to make announcements like this on their own.  They have their communications plans which are tied in with other things to maximize the impact of the news, like promos.  It's one thing to walk around out of own personal interest, snap a few pictures, etc. but if you're going to do something more, I recommend you be more open, ask for permission/endorsement or at least find out what day they will announce and post yours at the same time.  You'll go further with collaboration.  It's recreation business news, not Watergate or North Korea.

Not that I need to point it out to the forum regulars but Mount Peter is a cool little mountain. They don't have much vertical or that much acreage but there's a nice variety of terrain for a small hill, including some relatively steep trails (usually at least 1 left bumped out also). They are inexpensive and have a great race program and ski school. In short it's an awesome place for your kids to learn and/or to get in a quick 1/2 day or a mid-week night, ridiculously close to the NY metro area.
Unless you place a high value on your ability to walk through an active construction site unescorted whenever you want, it's pretty likely you'll be happy with the place.

Come on lets cut sno some slack.  He was doing what he loves and produced a great report.  Was he out of line I don't think so.  Some person that was in charge of marketing got upset someone else jumped and wrote with more detail than they know about the installation.  I don't want to chase him away he has thin skin and is a little naïve.

Agreed TJ. I don't want him to go away. I don't think we could get rid of him anyway...

Hit the Mount Peter/Ski Barn sale this morning; got the boys boots that fit their feet. Lots going on... they're there tomorrow also

Old chairs for sale


New chairs waiting to be installed




New lift; loading station is actually farther up the hill, I guess to eliminate an intersection where never-evers had to walk through an active area to get to the magic carpet
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There was some very cool chainsaw art for sale.