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Good interview . . . some excerpts: "RUSSELL: What will be open for skiers in these early weeks before the base is really covered? ZACHARA: We're starting off by uploading and downloading skiers on the facelift just to take advantage of our elevation. As temperatures allow, we'll start making...

Don't think folks in the southeast and some areas of the midwest would agree with the level of pessimism this guy has. "Vanishing" is not that term that comes to mind in those regions. In fact, the two VA hills closest to Washington DC have recently completed the addition of new terrain and...

I've been very happy with the Cross Climate 2. My husband got them after some research in 2024. Drove the RAV4 to Colorado in December and did end up driving on snow a few days.

Perhaps the new guy forecasting for New York has friends working at Whiteface. What I found funny this morning is that Matt mentioned North Carolina at the beginning of his Daily Snow. :)

Folks who follow SkiSoutheast aren't too surprised. Depending on essentially 100% snowmaking coverage means being ready for any time Mother Nature provides an opportunity for 24-hours snowmaking after Halloween. The SkiSE Discord discussions started getting active a week or two ago. Pics have...

A lift is running in the NC mountains today! Sugar Mountain opened their usual top-to-bottom trail after barely 40 hours of intense snowmaking. Cataloochee opens on Nov. 12. Those two are the usual suspects vying for "first to open" honors in NC every season. Both started blowing snow in the...

Whiteface, Gore, and Belleayre use the same software for selling tickets online, which makes sense. The text about selling out online and not selling tickets in person is slightly different though. Same concept, different marketing style. Gore makes a point to emphasize that if tickets sell...

Didn't realize that OpenSnow now has a NY forecaster. Matt started posting on Oct. 26, 2025. The Nov. 10 NY Daily Snow was about lake effect.

As of today, Nov. 9, first ticket available is Dec. 5. OnTheSnow is projecting Nov. 28. Do you think Boyne Mountain is trying to open before Thanksgiving? Doesn't look great for snowmaking after Nov. 11. EDIT: Ikon Open/Close webpage says Dec. 5 for Boyne Mountain, as of Nov. 8.

Could have something to do with Indy being very clear that they don't want to sell an unlimited number of passes. The number of passes available only goes up when the number of locations increases. Not only runs the risk of overcrowding, the business model of sharing revenue wouldn't be as...

Couldn't resist taking a look at the OpenSnow Forecast for Snowmaking (Wet Bulb) for the next 10 days since the Free Preview is still available. The Max and Min in the boxes below the graph are from two publicly available weather models. The default bold line is the OpenSnow blended forecast...

Clearly OpenSnow is working to get the kinks out of the AI Overview. Pre-season and early season is perhaps more complicated . . . and more people may be watching who won't care later on because they know where they are going skiing. Whiteface clearly "closed", as of November 8, 2025 View...

Agree. Certainly not upgrading for AI summaries for individual resorts. Turned out that my younger ski buddy has paid for Premium for a few years. Maybe I'll ask her to look for an example in a few months.

Have seen that on a list posted on another ski forum, but don't know the source. Did you read the Free Preview of the AI Overview? Individual bullet points for Days 1-5, then an outlook for Days 6-10 combined. The AI doesn't know the lifts aren't running yet. There are clothing and goggle...

I've been getting weird error message on Xenforo forums lately. They don't repeat. Seems to happen when I'm not at home and staying somewhere with relatively slow WiFi. I'm on a Mac with Safari 17.6, which is not the latest MacOS.

Figures 2 and 3 certainly show a trend. Data starts in the mid-1990s.

The history of commercial timber harvesting evolved in the Adirondacks from the initial forays to clear land for farming long before the idea of creating the Adirondack Park started. In the early years, only the larger trees of a couple of species were taken out. By 1850, New York was selling...

Ober invested in snowmaking boxes starting a few years ago. There was a change in ownership in 2022. The family who sold to another local had owned/operated the place since 1975. Before that, it was getting harder and harder for Ober to get open for the end of year holiday period. From...

As someone who is visually oriented, but not a weather geek, I ignore the lines that are the source data. Can click on any line for details from that specific forecast. All I'm looking at is whether or not the OpenSnow Snowmaking forecast is in a color band for night time snowmaking or...

Found the mention of the new indoor Ski World in southern China more interesting. Opened in late September 2025. The Haifa Ice and Snow World is four times bigger in terms of snow coverage than Dubai. The acreage is 25 acres, about the same as Appalachian in the NC mountains. September 25...