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They can pump up to 4800 gpm into the reservoir and up to 6800 gpm out. If they do both at once, then there's a 2000 gpm deficit, as in 2000 more gpm are going out than in. With a 2000 gpm deficit, they will drain the reservoir in 10 days. Where it gets complicated is that some or all of the...

Gore actually does have a water problem. Since they added so many low E guns, air is no longer the limiting factor like it was back in 1995 when they added the Hudson River feed. I believe back then, they felt they had enough water for the size of the mountain, and they rarely ran at maximum...

Zero chance. Look at Google Earth. Absolutely ridiculous that anyone suggested such a thing was possible.

The reason for the difference in snowmaking performance between Gore and Belleayre is due to the GPM per snowmaking acre ratio. That's the best metric to determine the snowmaking capabilities of any ski area. No matter how many low E guns you have, no matter how aggressive you are at hitting...

Gore has more snowmaking capacity than Belleayre, but Gore is more than double the size of Belleayre, and has much more elaborate park builds than Belleayre does. I'll normally be the first to call out slacking off, but I can't really do that for Gore this year. They covered everything they did...

Gore almost always closes trails with active snowmaking. Can't remember the last time I skied under the guns there.

I think they had capped it low, based on anticipated passholder or frequent skier card visits, but when the numbers were lower than expected, they reopened ticket sales, which is why people were able to buy at the window. No reason to turn people away when the mountain isn't overcrowded. Sunday...

If they're selling out every weekend, then they need to expand the mountain.

I was surprised to see snowmaking on Rumor this morning, because I didn't think it was cold enough. Overall, today was a good day. It wasn't particularly crowded, and I got plenty of good runs. That being said, there were some points of frustration. Echo was closed for racing all morning, but...

As for the gondola issues, it will try to evenly space all the cabins no matter how many are on the line. I believe there's a specific setting for it to leave a gap as if a cabin were there. So if that wasn't used, then it's going to try to respace everything. When they cabins were added back...

And there you have it, snowmaking on Rumor. Taken 10 minutes ago.

As much of a failure it would be to skip Rumor, I have a hard time criticizing Gore for bad snowmaking, when Whiteface is run by the same agency. When you expand your snowmaking footprint and sign up for large snowmaking commitments for events, and don't expand your snowmaking capacity, it...

It was never open any of the days I was there last year, and they never made snow on it. Same with Kidderbrook and Free Fall. Those 3 are among my favorites at Stratton. I also really like Upper Standard.

I went to Stratton today to meet up with my dad, and because they had some of my favorite trails open that I hadn't skied in a while. A bluebird day in the morning, that gradually got cloudy, and ended with my first time skiing in a thunderstorm on my last few runs. Black Bear Upper...

Unless they actually confirmed that they are done with snowmaking, how could you write off Rumor just yet? There's a good window to work with next week. Has there ever been a year that it didn't open?

The report still says they are setting up on Rumor, like it has for 5 days now. I assume they'll hit it after the weekend. It has taken too long. Not sure about anything else. Be glad that they moved the competition from January 28th to now. Otherwise Burnt Ridge and then ski bowl would've...

Why are they even considering adding any new trails when they don't have the snowmaking capacity to cover what they've got? Build a snowmaking pond before anymore new lifts, lodges, or trails.

I plan my day to move through each section and do each traverse only once. Usually, I go in the order of Gondola, Topridge, Straightbrook, High Peaks, North, and that covers the entire Upper Mountain, usually with a lunch break at the saddle between High Peaks and North. Then after I finish...

I'm not sure why they never plowed Lot H. This was one of the rare days they could have used it. Hopefully they had enough shuttle buses, because that's a crazy long walk. Bottom of the access road to the main base is also a 500 vertical climb.

I skied open to close, mostly avoiding the main base and sticking to the outer areas. Run count as follows: Gondola - Ruby, Showcase Gondola - Topridge Topridge - Uncas, Lower Uncas, Tannery Topridge - Pine Knot Topridge - Topridge Topridge - Uncas Topridge - Ruby, The Loop, Pete Gay North -...