Gore Mountain Conditions

[Milo Maltbie]

FWIW it's ironically discouraging to continually hear what a great job the snowmakers did this year. Snowmaking is better than nothing, but I'm old enough to remember when Gore ran on 100% natural snow, and was usually open by Thanksgiving. Now when we get 5" of fresh people talk about it like it's Alta.
Sad.

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[Brownski]

I don’t think use of Snomax is as widespread as the internet seems to portray.

 

[Milo Maltbie]

Why not just put in some big windmills and blow in a lot of fluffy lake effect from the Big O?

I actually had a plan for that but it was lost in the last software transition. All you need to do is put a series of dams on the Raquette and Moose Rivers, and run pumped storage electric generation for clean energy and to keep the reservoirs from freezing. That would create a water source that would inevitably fall on Gore and Whiteface as snow whenever it gets cold enough. It's a win-win.
If not for global warming I'm sure that plan would have gotten a lot of traction.

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[Tjf1967]

Does anyone care about any of the events this year, or for the university games next year?
I don't do any of those Wild Air features, but if I did, they weren't available Xmas week or almost all of February. How are they making any money blowing tons of snow for things no one cares about and closing features that at least some people enjoy?
They should stop all those events and create a reforestation zone right down the center of the Arena.

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Orda doesn't. It's about bringing in all the teams. Housing feeding and entertaining them. The businesses make a good buck the week they are in.

 

[Milo Maltbie]

Orda doesn't. It's about bringing in all the teams. Housing feeding and entertaining them. The businesses make a good buck the week they are in.

Really? that's not nothing, but still...

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[tirolski]

The bottom Mount Gondola looks like it was used as a “snow bank” to have some to push out snow for getting on the lifts at the base.
The University Games are a big deal. More competitors coming, allegedly, than for 1980 Olympics.

This time, University Games organizers expect 1,600 athletes from 50 countries representing 600 universities. There will be 86 medal events — an equal number for men and women — in 12 sports. By comparison, in the 1980 Winter Olympics, there were 1,100 competitors from 37 countries entered in 12 sports
In 1980, there was no snowboarding, freestyle skiing or curling. In 2023, there will be no sliding events: bobsled, luge and skeleton.
While Lake Placid will be the host of the games, some of the early rounds of the hockey competition will be held in Canton and Potsdam, the curling in Saranac Lake, and the snowboard and freestyle skiing at Gore Mountain in North Creek...

Lake Placid also hosted em before ORDA in 1972.

The United States won a total of seven medals in 1972, good for second place in the overall count, but far behind the 29 won by athletes from the Soviet Union.

Ski Lines: World University Games set for January

It’s a big deal. The World University Games, to be held next January, is the largest international event planned for… Read more »

dailygazette.com

 

[Milo Maltbie]

The bottom Mount Gondola looks like it was used as a “snow bank” to have some to push out snow for getting on the lifts at the base.

They also built up Topridge, including a big bank at the bottom. I think the plan is to keep Topridge and/or Wild Open as long as possible. One or the other other might survive an extra weekend.

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[Cork]

FWIW it's ironically discouraging to continually hear what a great job the snowmakers did this year. Snowmaking is better than nothing, but I'm old enough to remember when Gore ran on 100% natural snow, and was usually open by Thanksgiving. Now when we get 5" of fresh people talk about it like it's Alta.
Sad.

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Do you ever get sick of bitching and whining you old fart?!

 

[Tjf1967]

Really? that's not nothing, but still...

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That's pretty much in the mission statement of orda. That's what they were created for. It's huge. It keeps lp thriving. Those world cup events bring 30-40k per team to the community.

 

[Campgottagopee]

I don’t think use of Snomax is as widespread as the internet seems to portray.

It's been around since before the intrawebs
Greek and Smuggs have been using it since the 80's