Recent content by snoloco

It only ever lasts a couple hours before it becomes a sheet of ice and they close it. Except on spring days.

Ah, the Grumor

Nothing happened, and the projected dates have always been rather fluid, in that they'll extend the season for certain lifts if there is enough snow. The only difference is that they have been very upfront about what the plan is, while in the past, they didn't tell you that a lift was closing...

I have no idea about the sketchy tree. For some good news, the haurope was put back on the towers it deroped from. They attached chain pulls to the lifting frame and winched it back up. However, one of the com lines appears to have been severed in the incident, and there is visible damage to...

The Lift Blog pictures were taken on November 10th, 2017. The one in the picture you are referencing is between towers 6 and 7, but the actual tree that fell was between towers 5 and 6. My earlier post was incorrect in that I assumed only one tower had deroped. When a tree impacts a lift, it...

This was shared anonymously to Facebook. Shows it off 3 towers and several mangled chairs. I can't tell if there is any damage to the towers themselves.

I found an interesting data point for how consistent temps this winter have been. Since 1980, Burlington has averaged 11 days above 40 degrees in the months of January or February, or about 18.6% of all days. This year, there have been just two of them, on January 1st and 18th. While there may...

Stratton and Magic did not open at all. Mount Snow had I think only one lift. Killington got 7 lifts open at one point, but not all of them were open for the whole day, and for most of the day, the two sides were isolated from each other. I think Sugarbush opened most of their lifts, but had...

This lift has no chair parking at all. I saw a comment on Facebook saying it deroped from 3 towers, which would likely be 5, 6, and 7.

Gotta love how their first reaction is to kill the webcam. Wouldn't they want people to see progress on the repair? Here's the same picture Here's my analysis based on the picture: The tree struck on the downhill side between towers 6 and 7. There are many large trees close to the lift in...

A day of mixed results operationally, but I got extremely lucky and ended up having a great day. Started on the gondola which opened at 8:20. Noticed that the upper lifts weren't even close to opening. Took the AE2 up for my second run, noticed Burnt Ridge was open, and headed over there. Did...

In the past they would move snowmakers over to lifts around this time of year. Not sure if that is still done today.

So maybe that's why Lookout was randomly closed last Wednesday.

In many instances, my decisions for where to ski on a particular day come down to one trail, lift, or area. On Wednesday, that was Hoyt's and Lookout Below. So with that lift closed, the whole day was a bust. Things would have been extremely limited at Whiteface between the random closure of...

It wasn't stupid. The trails that I most wanted to ski were going to be closed all day. So I decided to head elsewhere. Given that there was a power outage later, Gore was ultimately the better choice no matter what.