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Riding a lift with snow guns in your face the whole way is not a pleasant experience. It also gets on the chairs and grips and can cause problems with the lift. Snow is made where the lines are charged, and that's not necessarily where it makes the most sense to make it, or where it is most...

Showcase has the challenge of not being able to make snow while the lift is open. So they either have to close the lift on weekdays to make snow, or only hit short windows at night. During the 2 weeks the gondola was down, closing the AE2 was not an option, so they never got it covered to full...

The guns were staged on Rumor when I was there on Sunday. It's the last "never skip" trail that they need to cover. I'd also like to see them hit Lower Steilhang, Pete Gay, and Twin Fawns before snowmaking winds down for the year.

They are certainly running out of time. All of their snowmaking upgrades don't seem to have moved the needle the way they did at Gore.

The reason is that they are making snow on Showcase. The chairs were offloaded at the end of today. It's pretty common for lifts to be closed for snowmaking on the lift line trail, especially where the guns need to be placed close to the lift. Since the gondola reopened, they've been running...

Lies actually did open. Looking at how much snowmaking terrain Gore has open, and comparing it to other resorts, they're not really far off. As for the season length, if we go from this past weekend to the last weekend in March, that's 11 weeks. If they make the first weekend of April, then...

Tell them not to go out of bounds. It's that simple.

These idiots all chose to ski out of bounds, when they did not have the skills or knowledge to do so safely. Don't go out of bounds and you won't have a problem. There's nothing to be scared of.

I don't know for sure, but it could have been wind. When I was there last Sunday, a lot of the snow was blowing back into the trees. That snowmaking line was installed when they had no fixed equipment on the trail and only used ratnik ground guns. It's possible that it wasn't installed on the...

I hate having to defend Gore/ORDA, but I guess you're going to make me. Snowmaking is significantly better than it was before the 2018 upgrade. They have never made snow on Moxham before, or opened 46er on snowmaking this early, and this is in one of the worst seasons I can remember. In fact...

Vail Resorts will never sell Hunter. They've yet to sell a single resort. The location is excellent, and they probably know that it's a cash cow, no matter how poorly they run it, so they have no incentive to do anything more than the bare minimum.

I'm not sure about it being a record, but on Sunday there were cars parked down the access road well below Lot G.

They updated the snow report saying no gondola, and then updated it again saying the gondola would reopen. I was just relaying the information that was available at the time.

No gondola tomorrow, but the report shows Backwoods opening. Too bad they couldn't also get the ski bowl done.

They need 2 lifts out of the base area. While they should open more right at 8:30, that's not a substitute for having two functioning lifts.

The Bear Cub Quad is easy to get to. It's at the top of the magic carpet.

They were making snow on Backwoods on Monday. I'm not sure how far along they are though.

This has been going on for 5 years. What makes you think it would be any different now?

Today got a lot better once the upper lifts opened and people could spread out. The powder is basically gone, but Chatiemac and Hawkeye did ski better after a groom. I thought everything was good except Showcase and Open Pit. Snowmaking is on Lower Sleighride to Pot Luck to The Arena, Hedges...

That picture was taken when they were late to open the North Quad and High Peaks Quad. Until at least one of those is open, out of base capacity is zero.