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Like I've seen from some other reports, my drive up through Johnstown was socked in with fog, but once I turned onto 10A, the fog lifted and the sun was out! The surface was firm to start but softened up quickly in the sun, giving a couple hours of really nice surfaces. We lost the sun by...

Lucked out today. It was a light rain at my house, but a light snow at the mountain. There was only about a half inch of fresh snow on top of the groomed out machine made snow (which also, until today, had not gone through a thaw-freeze cycle), though enough to give us the best surface of the...

Modern snowmaking and grooming are amazing things, especially when a lot of that snow is made with really cold temps like we had the last few nights. Royal was able to put out some pleasant conditions today with Prince, Queen, and Royal the main ways down. A terrain park was just starting to...

Apologies if there's a thread and I just missed it in my search. Maple Ski Ridge sent out this email about their "soft opening" for their 60th anniversary season. Soft Opening!! Saturday, 12/23 9 AM-4 PM Tickets $6 Bunny Hill ONLY

Facebook post from Royal: CLOSED TOMORROW 12/22/23 We currently have over 24’’ of base on all open terrain which includes the Bunny Slope (Learning Area), Royal, Queen, Lodge Run, and Lift Access. This week there have been a lot of great opportunities for snowmaking to help open additional...

Yesterday was a nice, sunny day, skiing on the same two main ways down (Queen and Royal). Queen stayed pretty firm but nice through the morning. Royal got a little more sun and was very soft. I only made 7 runs off the top. I taught our ski school's first lesson of the season early, got to...

We had a pretty nice one for opening day today. The sun made some appearances but not too many. Probably for the best since it was in the 40's. Practice Slope, Queen, and Royal, plus Lift Access and Lodge Run were well-covered with loose granular that became wet granular. It was a pretty...

Can't wait to give it a try.

My physical Indy Pass came in the mail today. Two of them, actually, in two identical envelopes each with the card with the same Indy ID number on it. Wonder if anyone else got doubles.

From Royal's facebook page:

Well, at least the bottom 1/2 to 2/3, where I spent some time this morning, is completely cleared between the chairs, right down to the lift loading area. Some of the pines below the Challenge headwall remain but I didn't climb up high enough to see what's going on above that. It looks...

I just got the confirmation that the work day is on as planned tomorrow starting around 9 AM. I plan to be there for at least part of the day so I'll know more about what's going on with the new trail/glade between the two chairs soon.

I think so, but I'll see on Saturday how it looks. When I heard about the plans last year, I was under the impression that they'd like to thin it out enough to be able to put in some snowmaking. I don't know if the plan is to thin it enough to be able to run a groomer down it. Either way...

Royal is projecting a December 2 opening day. I haven't seen details yet, but I learned at our snowsports school training yesterday that there's a work day planned for this Saturday to clear brush between the two main chairs to make that area more skiable. It's shown as a "Coming 2023-24"...

Windham is pretty close for me and I used to go down a couple times a year on cheap weekday industry rate tickets (I think it was still $15 or $20 not too many years ago, though at the time more places would be a comp). That was up to $65 last season but I never made it there. I doubt even...

I think it would be great to be up on Whiteface for the eclipse. I was in Grand Island, Nebraska, for the 2017 eclipse and it was a top 5 lifetime experience, even in a park in a flat part of the world. You don't want to be in the partial eclipse, you want to get in the totality. The...

Hate to see this. My two days at Snow Ridge in the last few seasons were great and I really have come to like the place a lot. I'd imagine damage to lifts is a lot harder to recover from than damage to buildings.

No worries! Thanks for the work getting things back online.

I thought for sure I posted this earlier today, but now I don't see it so I'll try again. I made my first visit to Big Snow yesterday, which also marked my first day skiing in July and my first time skiing in New Jersey. The experience exceeded my expectations. I was most worried about how...

Yes, Royal has a successful summer Motocross business. I've never been up there for it, but I understand it really packs in the crowds.