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Not defending some of the other decision-making about the Ski Bowl, but wanted to push back on this a bit. I'm an intermediate on a good day, had my one trip to Gore a couple years ago on a cold/windy late Feb weekend when conditions were generally bulletproof. I was able to ski Backwoods...

Conditions report says they're making snow at Backwoods/Eagle's Nest and the Ski Bowl, is that not true? I would have thought those areas (plus making sure Sunway is in tolerable shape) would be priorities for MLK weekend.

I think it's funny that the snow report is showing Burnt Ridge lift as open to the public today but Echo closed for racing. So you're allowed to traverse over, ride the lift, and traverse out from the top? Back in the fall we tried to convince another family to do MLK weekend with us at Gore...

Snow report says Burnt Ridge lift opens today, only Echo so far of the main trails there. Is that because youth racing starting soon? Showcase, Hullabaloo, Lower Darby also now open.

Thanks, much appreciated. I saw in a press release that they added 13 new guns (plus some snowmaking pipe) in the offseason. Are those stationary guns? If so where did they go/are they in use yet?

Question for those who know Plattekill better than I do -- I've looked at the current conditions report and the forecast. Seems like for MLK weekend they should have Plunge/Slalom added to what's open now but unlikely to be anything else additional, correct? Will be staying with our kids and...

Did anyone here go to Belle between Christmas and New Year's and attempt to buy food/use the bathrooms? Have been planning to go there for 1-2 days over MLK weekend (not Saturday) with my kids and another family and have been a little worried how that's gonna go given the lodge situation. But I...

Not sure about memberships but the head guy was on Storm Skiing recently and acknowledged they messed up the messaging last year and lost regular day ticket sales as a result.

Were concerns about snowmaking capacity the reason for eliminating the additional trails that had once been planned at the new Hudson chair?

IIRC the proposed new unload location was selected to allow for creation of new trails to skier's left. Are they still planning to add trails over there?

I've been to both (though only one day at Plattekill) and am considering this exact trip with family this year. To piggyback on what others have said -- absolutely ski Sun/Mon instead of Saturday if you can swing it. My ideal way to do the trip would be Sunday at Plattekill and Monday at...

Storm Skiing does a good job tracking this. I won't cut/paste Stuart's whole chart here but Epic increases are negligible, last year on the order of 2ish percent at each deadline, and total about 6.5-7% between spring and November. So pretty similar to Plattekill actually. Ikon follows a much...

Saw they were open this weekend with $19 lift tickets so I took the long way home from Belleayre to check Holiday out. They've definitely been blowing snow this week, there was a bunch more than in the photos in that article, which is pretty cool. It's smaller than I realized with only the...

Thanks for the info, that's helpful. (And possible I was mistaken about Overlook. Does it typically get groomed when open?)

In general, how literally should the "experts only" advisories at Plattekill be taken? I have only one day there, when limited terrain was open. I'd love to get back to explore more but I check the conditions report online fairly often and as far as I can tell the natural terrain off both chairs...

This came up a little bit in the Storm Skiing interview with Whiteface GM a couple months ago (last 5 min of podcast). He talked about how MAX Pass had opened up Boston market to Whiteface and it was disappointing not to be included on Ikon originally. He does say there have been internal...

As a former journalist, I always appreciate when people click the links! You can tell the itineraries page is old bc the link to the financial advisor (who I assume was a former community sponsor or something?) is broken. I still found it directly from the home page. And I don't mean to...

Thanks for sharing those revenue numbers @tirolski. Rapid recent growth at Belleayre is no surprise but at Gore I would've expected less rapid growth -- details on Gore (and Whiteface) visitation numbers were conspicuously absent from ORDA's postseason press release -- so interesting to see that...

Not New York, but close: Mountain Creek put out its 24/25 passes Thursday morning. About $315 after taxes/fees for the rest of this season and all next, which I think is cheaper than what will be available in the fall. Initially released 1000 and the site couldn't handle demand. They released...

Had my first-ever day at Magic yesterday with my wife. I am lower-intermediate so given the snow report we stuck to the groomed trails on the east side. Conditions were generally crispy with patches of ice, which was to be expected, but we actually found some nice snow on Medium and Upper Trick...