Thursday, Jan 18 ….
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Thursday, Jan 18 ….
Sorry, cannot let a day go by without a report - conditions from Sup to Bear were soft snow and enjoyable - another short day due to MrG’s struggle - longer today, but not going to push it!
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Re: Thursday, Jan 18 ….
Thanks MrsG, did you see any snowmaking on anything new?
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Re: Thursday, Jan 18 ….
Spot guns on lower Great Eastern …. don't recall anywhere else! Maybe in the K1 to Rams area.
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Re: Thursday, Jan 18 ….
Wow, in years past, they would have had multiple trails lit up during a cold snap like this in mid to late January especially signature trails like Out Limits, Devils Fiddle, Double Dipper and others. The snowmaking effort seems to be getting less and less Beastly every year now. Something is definitely going on, probably a combination of factors.MrsG wrote: ↑Jan 19th, '24, 07:30Spot guns on lower Great Eastern …. don't recall anywhere else! Maybe in the K1 to Rams area.
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Re: Thursday, Jan 18 ….
It is much worse this year than any previous season I can recall.KingsFourMan wrote: ↑Jan 19th, '24, 08:19Wow, in years past, they would have had multiple trails lit up during a cold snap like this in mid to late January especially signature trails like Out Limits, Devils Fiddle, Double Dipper and others. The snowmaking effort seems to be getting less and less Beastly every year now. Something is definitely going on, probably a combination of factors.MrsG wrote: ↑Jan 19th, '24, 07:30Spot guns on lower Great Eastern …. don't recall anywhere else! Maybe in the K1 to Rams area.
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Re: Thursday, Jan 18 ….
AgreedSouthside_Bobby wrote: ↑Jan 19th, '24, 08:27It is much worse this year than any previous season I can recall.KingsFourMan wrote: ↑Jan 19th, '24, 08:19Wow, in years past, they would have had multiple trails lit up during a cold snap like this in mid to late January especially signature trails like Out Limits, Devils Fiddle, Double Dipper and others. The snowmaking effort seems to be getting less and less Beastly every year now. Something is definitely going on, probably a combination of factors.MrsG wrote: ↑Jan 19th, '24, 07:30Spot guns on lower Great Eastern …. don't recall anywhere else! Maybe in the K1 to Rams area.
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Re: Thursday, Jan 18 ….
When I checked the webcams yesterday, they were also working on Timberline, Swirl, and Bear Cub.
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Re: Thursday, Jan 18 ….
yeah I saw that as well. I assume they were blowing all the way down to the load of sunrise chair? That's a fairly long run if so.
It still seems like they're behind and not putting in as much effort as previous years but still getting it done. They do seem to be letting them run longer on slopes to get a deeper base down. the exception being GE down to Skyeship which they painted to get that base area open and then returned to quickly to deepen the base.
It still seems like they're behind and not putting in as much effort as previous years but still getting it done. They do seem to be letting them run longer on slopes to get a deeper base down. the exception being GE down to Skyeship which they painted to get that base area open and then returned to quickly to deepen the base.
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Re: Thursday, Jan 18 ….
Correct assumptionjimmywilson69 wrote: ↑Jan 19th, '24, 10:42 yeah I saw that as well. I assume they were blowing all the way down to the load of sunrise chair? That's a fairly long run if so.
Re: Thursday, Jan 18 ….
OL lit up today...
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Re: Thursday, Jan 18 ….
Been plenty of snowmaking oddities this year but they've had a lot lit up this week: Downdraft, Timberline, Swirl, Lower GE, Bear Cub, Sun Dog. Cross some of those off by now and they're on OL and soon to be L. Double Dipper and Dreammaker.KingsFourMan wrote: ↑Jan 19th, '24, 08:19Wow, in years past, they would have had multiple trails lit up during a cold snap like this in mid to late January especially signature trails like Out Limits, Devils Fiddle, Double Dipper and others. The snowmaking effort seems to be getting less and less Beastly every year now. Something is definitely going on, probably a combination of factors.MrsG wrote: ↑Jan 19th, '24, 07:30Spot guns on lower Great Eastern …. don't recall anywhere else! Maybe in the K1 to Rams area.
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Re: Thursday, Jan 18 ….
What after those? Think they hit fiddle or vertigo? Not that I care my crap recovery from ACL tear keeps me largely out of the steeper bumps these days. It’s nice to see Ma’ nature help out these last few weeks.
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Re: Thursday, Jan 18 ….
Vertigo should be dead last until the Needle's chair is fixed. I'd like to see Header, Upper Chute to Great Bear, Pipe Dream, and Upper Wildfire next.
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Re: Thursday, Jan 18 ….
Those would be the ones I would do.
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Re: Thursday, Jan 18 ….
Good to see you're finally off of the Conclusion needs to be blown kick !
Thanx for starting the thread Mrs. G - I had a bunch of errands to do so did not go out. Your's was the only "report" in this thread.
Goes to show, you don't never know
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Watch each card you play, and play it slow
Don't you let that deal go down
Don't you let that deal go down
Looks like its going down no matter what I do !!!