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I have been saying that for the past few years. Was going to go in March of 2020, but something happened and the mountain closed early that season.

They have been good about opening Topridge early the past few seasons. In addition to the much ballyhooed new trail/snowguns on Burnt Ridge, there are also some new guns being/have been installed on Chatiemac and Uncas this summer, so maybe they'll open the top from that direction (and maybe a...

This year's onsale day is Nov 1. Did this last year and got to hit Jay, Smuggs, Sugarbush and Killington for under $200 total. Detail in the link below: Ski VT

I have had T-Mobile for the past 3-4 years after several years on Verizon. Both seem to work fine at Gore and in the Catskills. Verizon works at Whiteface. Last season, I could occasionally get service at Whiteface on T-Mobile after several years of nothing. I have less recent experience in...

According to Lift Blog, typical high speed lifts go 1000 feet per minute. Madonna is 6,719 ft. Even at 800 fpm that's well under 9 minutes. 4+ minutes when it's below zero is a long time. https://liftblog.com/2016/02/04/will-detachable-lifts-get-faster/

Madonna is the longer of the two at Smuggs. 2000+ vertical in ~20 minutes (assuming a couple stops along the way). According to my tracking app, the two lift rides I mentioned above took 13:04 and 18:03.

I was there last season on a day so cold that they didn't open Madonna until 11. I managed two trips on that lift and spent the rest of the day on Sterling. I still shiver thinking about it.

Do the slopes get crowded though? My personal experience is with Jiminy (my 1,150 dig) and Camelback (~800 vertical) and they are the two most crowded places I have skied. In those cases there are several lifts that serve the summit, so I can see your point about Timberline and only one lift to...

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard:

There is no reason to have a HSQ on anything less than 1,000 vertical--Nub's is less than half of that--and you certainly don't need a six-pack if your vertical is 1,150.

I know right, isn't capitalism just the worst!

Now if they could just run a magic carpet along half of Cedars Traverse, Burnt Ridge would be fully integrated.

The snow has never been through a thaw-refreeze pattern--no sun to soften it up. It does do the trick though!

Nice report. I was there this past Sunday (9/11). It was my second trip and I liked it better than my first trip (July 2021), but that was probably due to the fact that it was my first time on the new skis that were the antidote to my case of That August Itch. I think the reason that the snow...

West and Magic gonna be mad at you!

Takes a lot of ski to look that bad. Pretty sure it's an act.

The key to a successful season at Hunter is to make snow at every opportunity. Which seemed to be the previous owners' m.o. (both Slutzkys and Peak). I noticed several times both early in the season and late-February where the weather was prime for snowmaking but the guns weren't on. Seemed like...

Snowmaking at Hunter has been disappointing since the Vail takeover.

German ski resort stores snow under wood chip carpet Hope it works!