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As Moose said, the likelihood of a temperature situation where they can blow snow on Superstar, but not North Ridge, is very low.

The notion that they would need to bail on early season skiing on the North Ridge, in order to "focus" on Superstar, isn't very logical. Either the weather will cooperate for early season or it won't, and the same for Superstar. They made it clear that, like last year, they will have two completely separate teams devoted to each. They have plenty of manpower and resources on Superstar. If it isn't cold enough to make enough snow over there, diverting manpower and resources from the North Ridge won't make it any colder. When it is cold enough, they have enough to pound the hell out of both.

As soon as it's cold enough to start blowing North Ridge they will. The same for Superstar.

As for HS and his "odds" of disaster, the easiest thing in the world to do is predict disaster and say "told you so" if it happens. When it doesn't, we don't hear a peep.

Weather pattern change expected late October. They were plowing roads yesterday on the Gaspe region of Quebec, that's just north of Maine. White stuff is not that far away from us, hard to believe!

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Big Bob wrote:Weather pattern change expected late October. They were plowing roads yesterday on the Gaspe region of Quebec, that's just north of Maine. White stuff is not that far away from us, hard to believe!

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30° Up here in Aroostook this morning...

If I understand correctly, the World Cup preparations are on a separate budget and largely independent of the normal terrain expansion. They bring in enough extra compressor capacity to handle all of Superstar in just about any conditions when it can be blown and the regular snowmaking capacity goes to the terrain expansion on North Ridge and elsewhere.

Problem is that snow control is a week before and it has to look like it's a go or they cancel. Even if it's a week of consistent cold after, it's still not good enough.

Last November before the week preceding Thanksgiving was mediocre at best and they still pulled it off.

I'm going with the Almanac forecast.

OCTOBER 2017: temperature 44° (4° below avg.); precipitation 3.5" (avg.); Oct 1-9: Scattered showers, cool; Oct 10-15: Sunny, cool; Oct 16-25: Showers, then sunny, cool; Oct 26-31: r*in and snow, then sunny, cool.
NOVEMBER 2017: temperature 35° (4° below avg.); precipitation 5" (1.5" above avg.); Nov 1�6: r*in, then flurries north, showers south; Nov 7�11: Snow, then sunny, cold; Nov 12�17: r*in and snow, then flurries, cold; Nov 18�21: Rainy, mild; Nov 22�26: Snowstorm, then flurries, cold; Nov 27�30: Showers, mild

Looks like October so far has had above normal temperatures, not 4 degrees below!! Wrong!

hillbangin wrote:I'm going with the Almanac forecast.

I'm going with the Moose forecast:

Nov 22: Partly sunny, unexpected trip to the grocery store.
Nov 23: Partly cloudy, with of an overcast of tryptophan by 4pm, accompanied with showers of Pinot Noir. By 8 pm the overcast will be lighter, such as turkey sandwiches on dinner rolls.
Nov 25th: Partly nervous, with chance of nervous peaking around 2am. Mostly crowdy will follow nervous, with more cowbell by 3pm.

Snowmaking Monday night on Rime is the rumor

From Weathering Heights Facebook post:


Increasing evidence of a weather pattern shift that occurs roughly about 10 days from today from warm to cold, potential snow. More to come.

Big Bob wrote:Snowmaking Monday night on Rime is the rumor

Warm the whole next week mostly in the 50's. No way they blow to open. Maybe a cold weather test.

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snoloco wrote:

Big Bob wrote:Snowmaking Monday night on Rime is the rumor

Warm the whole next week mostly in the 50's. No way they blow to open. Maybe a cold weather test.

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yep perhaps a test...

I guess I missed it but Dispatch is going to be the Saturday band - it's going to be VERY crowded.

I'm still hoping for Phish next year.

Aspen starting to sweat?

http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/176875

throbster wrote:Aspen starting to sweat?

http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/176875

“From a marketing perspective, if I had $5 million I couldn’t buy what that event generated for us,” Megnin said.

throbster wrote:Aspen starting to sweat?

http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/176875

They gave up this T-day race because they were hosting the finals last year. When the T-day race was at Aspen, only a thousand or so people would show up. It's back at Kton this year because of the crowds it drew, but I don't expect crowds like last year, should be down at least 20%.

Aspen isn't trying to get this race back, they're trying to improve their infrastructure so they can host the Finals and other desirable events.