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Does anyone remember that before EXPLORE GORE they had MORE GORE stickers? We could use some of those sarcastically now. mm

Still fun to see the oligarchs turning on each other. mm

Even when conditions were good this year the terrain has been too limited to say that skiing was good. I heard someone complaining yesterday at the saddle that Gore was worse the West mountain. It's like Gore is the red headed step child of ORDA. mm

What seems reasonable when you take the job may not sound so good after a few years. Especially when you are a critical part of a valuable business or when you have high level skills that nevertheless don't easily transfer to other jobs. Large employers in small towns dominate the local labor...

I'm unusually cranky because I've been stuck in the house for a few days with the flu or something. I'll go away now. mm

Everyone had a few weeks of marginal temperatures, but Belle has all its chairs running, Whiteface has all its most important lifts running. Gore is less than one third open. The last few years there has been rain every couple of weeks. If it takes 3 weeks to recover from bad weather that we get...

I'm not buying that either. A lodge at the top of the gondola would get a lot more use then the zippy bowl lodge. ORDA just burns money in the wrong places. mm

That's not the point. A lot of skiers are on 100+ boards regardless that they are not really what you need most of the time. i have a pair of 100+ for western trips and powder days, and it would be nice to fir them in the baskets. This is just a case of ORDA not writing the spec correctly, and...

I'm not buying any extraterrestrial stories. I'm sure there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, but what would attract them here? We've only had radio transmissions for about 100 years, and now with digital technology the signal to noise ratio of any transmission is approximately...

ORDA seems to be making a real effort to improve at Whiteface. They brought a snowmaking manager to WF from Belleayre late last year, and this year they did a walk though program of the snowmaking system for passholders earlier this year. All that seems to be in response to complaints about last...

Windham now has a helicopter service to NYC: https://www.news10.com/news/greene-county/windham-mountain-club-to-offer-flights-to-from-manhattan/ I'm hoping ORDA follows suit with flights from Mechanicville to Whiteface. mm

I didn't think they did so well last year, but maybe I was just annoyed that they built that Hole Shot course before they even started on Lies and Rumor. Gore was the only ORDA mountain that didn't get 100% open last year, and I think Lower Steilhang has only been open a couple of days in the...

Gore is reporting that 18 of 108 trails are open. Whiteface has been top to bottom for a couple of weeks, with skiing for all levels on about a third of its trails. Belleayre has had about two-thirds of its trails for a couple of weeks. Gore has no black trails and no continuous green route...

There's an article in today's Times Union about the Discovery lodge contract: https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/belleayre-expansion-contract-orda-empire-core-19971947.php The contractor is blaming ORDA for all its problems, which is predictable. One interesting thing is that...

And then there's this: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/12/11/chinese-citizen-arrested-after-allegedly-flying-drone-taking-photos-of-space-force-base.html I think this is gonna turn out to be a few Chinese surveillance drones and a whole lot of hysteria. They probably won't shoot them...

That has nothing to do with it. You can easily reach any part of Gore without the gondola, but even when it opens the upper mountain won’t be ready. mm

I know enough about theoretical physics to know that I don't understand it at all, except that physical reality is so strange that there is a non-zero probability that spiritual/religious experiences are actually vaguely perceived communications in unknown dimensions, or that we are all merely...

The snowmaking quality at Gore has been very good for a few years now, but they just don't cover enough area. Belleayre, Whiteface, Killington and Windham were all top to bottom last weekend, but Gore has hardly made any snow above the Saddle. Today's snow report is that they ".. are shifting...

What makes you think big brother isn’t Chinese? mm

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