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I agree just pointing out one highlight
"You just need to go at that shit wide open, hang on, and own it." —Camp
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Anyone have first hand intel on Mount Snow for Monday 12-30 evening/Tuesday 12-31 AM? I am trying to decide whether it’s worth the drive up.
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I have an old iPhone that shuts off in the cold so the only photos I have are these that my husband took of the lift lines. I did see a woman holding an infant on skis between her legs as she wedged down a very very icy Ego Alley. This infant didn’t appear old enough to walk and was not supporting any weight on its floppy little legs. It did have skis on its feet. On Sunbrook in the AM it was pretty funny to watch kids coming off the hardpack into deep drifts of machine made snow where Cloud Nine turns into Thanks Walt. They would just hit it and fall right over, one after the other. |
Good god, how could anyone actually go there let alone enjoy that place with crowds like that. |
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Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded?
"You just need to go at that shit wide open, hang on, and own it." —Camp
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This is why we ski Platt or mid week if you can...
"Peace and Love"
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I must say that is amazing. I'd rather go to the dentist. Did you wait in that line? How long was the wait. |
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That is something.
"You want your skis? Go get 'em!" -W. Miller
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That’s a big nope for me.
It’s like, being in rush hour traffic. It’s awful. |
In reply to this post by campgottagopee
I spent almost no time in line that day. I never rode the bluebird or grand summit express. Ego Alley was hard to get to because of dirt patches, but if you made it over there, you could walk right onto the lift. We worked only the fixed grips and avoided any lines. |
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Grand Summit Express and Bluebird Express were damaged by lightning strikes on Monday and it’s unclear when they will be operational again.
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Oh my! There goes your lack of lines on the fixed grips. From Mount Snow website: Update at 10:15A.M.: The Bluedbird is on hold, but is expected to open by 11:00A.M. Challenger Lift and the North Face are now open! To access the summit, ride Canyon Express and take River Run to North Face and ride Challenger to the top |
Was at Mount Snow yesterday (12/31) with my 2 sons. Started out absolutely awful due in part to the storm that went through on 12/30 and left them with only a handful of lifts open yesterday. Heard from people that they waited in line 90 minutes from the base lodge. We hoofed it over to Tumbleweed around 10:30am and still had > 45 minute wait.
But I'd say Mount Snow mgmt/personnel should also take blame for the disaster from yesterday. The lifts were sorely undermanned and there was little to no help in organizing and directing the huge lines. When the Sundance lift finally came on-line, they were running it too fast and we witnessed 4 people get knocked off during the loading process. For their lifts, I don't understand why the paths to ski out to wait for the chair are so narrow. It felt like I was walking the plank on Sundance... On the positive side, after 2pm, the place really started to clear out, lift lines went down to almost nothing and the ski conditions were great. My last two runs were the best of the day, the kind that make me want to forget the crap show from the morning and it made the 3 hour drive home much more bearable. |
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Thanks for this great report. Seem like Mt Snow has become the poster child for the mega pass movement.
"You just need to go at that shit wide open, hang on, and own it." —Camp
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You mean the Anti-Mega pass movement. I've seen that a lot lately all over. |
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Are those people in line anti-mega?
"You just need to go at that shit wide open, hang on, and own it." —Camp
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Nice soft snow today in the rain. Visibility was terrible. Groomers did a good job covering up the dirt patches that were there last weekend. Lines weren’t too bad on Bluebird today. Grand Summit Express wasn’t running so the main face blue trails were pretty empty. I think they will fire up the snow guns tonight.
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I was at Mount Snow this past Wednesday, Jan 1. I didn't realize there was an issue with the bluebird and Grand Summit. We parked at Carinthia as we always do to avoid the shuttle, and worked out way over to the main mountain. It was about 11 by the time we were over there and there was about a 20 min line at Bluebird. I had no idea it was down just before then?
That was the only time we took the bluebird. Spent the rest of the day in the North Face. It snowed most of the day which was just enough to keep a nice fresh surface on the trails and the North Face lift was pretty much ski-on all afternoon. The best snow was on the closed trails. Ripcord, Jaws, Challenger and Olympic. There was an underlying firmness that had everything covered fairly well with an additional 5" or so of fresh! Ripcord had seen snowmaking and hadn't been groomed but the fresh snow put it in play. Naturally, there was a lot of rope ducking followed by a lot of hooting and hollering of happiness. The snow was awesome! Pretty soon we had people following us. Patrol was nowhere to be found on the North Face all day. It was magical like Plattekill and not what you'd expect at Mount Snow on a Holiday. The main reason we were there was because it was sort of on the way to NH where we were headed to ski the following day. Turned out Mount Snow can in fact be pretty awesome. Ripcord
I'll take boilerplate ice over wet snow any day
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Despite my negative comment from a few days ago, I totally agree, Mt Snow can be pretty awesome! I was there two years ago and had a fantastic time. Turns out we missed it by a day this time :( |
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Never go to a mountain on 1/1 that uses college students from South America. They party BIG.
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