Belleayre Conditions

[billyb3]

Amazing conditions continue! Finally got out to the top of Cathedral with the boy (definitely worth it)! Big T's woods were fantastic, too.

 

[Ripitz]

Amazing conditions continue! Finally got out to the top of Cathedral with the boy (definitely worth it)!

Way cool!

 

[marcski]

IMHO, its really, really weak of Belle to not be running tomahawk midweek. During Covid, they should not be encouraging everyone to be taking the gondola for access to the west side of the ridge. There is no way in hell the state laid off any workers for those days. They definitely have the staff.

What they really need is a transfer tow up top on the ridge. Makes the most sense.

(And, some type of a decent pitch after the top ridge... I mean, wow).

 

[Ripitz]

IMHO, its really, really weak of Belle to not be running tomahawk midweek. During Covid, they should not be encouraging everyone to be taking the gondola for access to the west side of the ridge. There is no way in hell the state laid off any workers for those days. They definitely have the staff.

What they really need is a transfer tow up top on the ridge. Makes the most sense.

OK, so you tow across, then what? You’d have to run another tow on the bottom to get back over. Just run the chair

 

[chr1s]

IMHO, its really, really weak of Belle to not be running tomahawk midweek. During Covid, they should not be encouraging everyone to be taking the gondola for access to the west side of the ridge. There is no way in hell the state laid off any workers for those days. They definitely have the staff.

What they really need is a transfer tow up top on the ridge. Makes the most sense.

Preach!

Agreed on the Tomahawk not running. All week it looked like they ran the triple instead of Tomahawk. Unless there is maintenance or repair issues on Tomahawk it does not make sense.

 

[billyb3]

Their FB page comments had this response from them yesterday:

"When comparing ticket scans between Tomahawk and Lift #7, Lift #7 is utilized more. It also helps takes the pressure off of the Belleayre Express, which is the most used lift on the mountain. Right now we are switching back and forth between the two lifts to see how things flow. For Friday, the Tomahawk Quad is slated to spin."

 

[Brownski]

You can’t turn back time but the logical thing would have been to put the gondola’s top terminal halfway between lift 7 and Tomahawk and used some fill to raise it up and give you a little gravity on either side. They should have asked me before they signed off on that shit. Also it should have been a quad instead of a gondola.

 

[Ripitz]

between Tomahawk and Lift #7, Lift #7 is utilized more.

That surprises me. I would think Tomahawk would be used more because of Deer Run, the mid-station and you can skate down Route 9 if necessary

and used some fill to raise it up

That would have been quite a mound. I think they planned on (hoped for) the expansion to happen for the chosen spot. A bubble quad would have worked but I like the G-ride non COVID. They should have made the tunnel bridge 50 times wider

 

[Stan_dupp]

Stop trying to rationalize orda decisions

 

[Brownski]

. A bubble quad would have worked but

no Bubbles. Keep going like that and I’ll knock it down to a triple