Catamount was pretty nice today. The snow was firm, but skiing really well early in the day. It started to get scraped off as the day went on, but I touched up my edges at lunch and kept going. None of their real steep stuff seemed to be open, which was a bummer. They have a couple of nice little easy glades, but the potential for so much more. Great day all around.
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Flying Z
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Excellent, i was there friday, light criwd. One thing I noticed this season was a lack of dedicated mogul runs, everything is cord, except to the side of Glade. Hopefully there will be more variety next year. Other than that, the new owners are really upgrading the place.
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MarzNC
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Wow! Catamount is putting in two new lifts. The blog update includes a FB video explaining them.
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Catamount Winter Update for the 2021-2022 Season
New Lifts, Snowtubing Park and Restaurant Options Highlight Substantial Investment in Catamount Mountain Resort for Winter 2021/22 Schaefer Family's Investment in Catamount Tops $15 Million since Acquiring the Resort in 2018 Hillsdale, NY/Egremont, MA – October 4, 2021: Two new lifts will greet...
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The new summit lift is a bunch of used Poma parts. I believe the drive is from the old Valley House Double at Sugarbush, the towers are from a retired high speed quad from somewhere in Colorado, and the chairs are the leftovers from when West Mountain relocated the triple from The Hermitage Club, and when Catamount relocated Berkshire East's old Summit Triple. I could be wrong about the chairs and drive, I'll know more when I see more pictures of the lift. Since the lift has quad gauge towers, it can be converted to a quad in the future. The other lift, which is replacing the Catamount Double is a 2001 Garaventa-CTEC model from Holiday Valley. It operated there as the Yodeler Quad, and is being replaced by a high speed quad.
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If you want to get a sense of Jon Schaefer and how he thinks about the responsibility of owning and improving ski areas in the Berkshires, check out Storm Skiing.
Dec 2019 - podcast
www.stormskiing.com
May 2021 - video
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Dec 2019 - podcast
Podcast #9: Berkshire East and Catamount Owner and GM Jon Schaefer
The Storm Skiing Podcast #9 | Download this episode on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, and Pocket Casts | Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.
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May 2021 - video
An Industry Talk with Berkshire East and Catamount Owner Jon Schaefer
The Storm tries this whole video fad
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MarzNC
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The Catamount Lodge looks a lot different after all the renovations completed in 2021. The total price tag for the major projects the last few years is $15 million.
November 14, 2021
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November 14, 2021
With ski season approaching, Catamount ready to debut new features
Two new chair lifts and enhance snowmaking capacity are two of the more than $15 million in improvements the Shaefer has made to Catamount Mountain Resort since purchasing the ski
