Gore Mountain Conditions

[CloudOut]

Early season loveliness all around. Tis Gore and we love her til the end.

Best run of the day— Twister glades.

Best Grooming— Lot E with a snowcat to clear snow.

Deepest powder— Sleeping Bear as it opened.

Season is off to a fast start!

 

[Cork]

Ya know, “ya gotta go know” is in fact truth.

yeah, no shit sherlock

 

[Dmoss]

I don't know what it is with Gore not expecting people to ski when it snows. I've only skied the Topridge area plus one run down the front. Conditions really good. The problem is the lift lines. The gondola has a full queue, but at least it has its singles line. The Adirondack Express didn't have the queue set up until later, so there is no singles line and none of the chairs are full.

This was the mess at Topridge

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this is what I feared for today. Too many people trying to funnel in to what is just not that much open terrain yet. I still would have rather been there making turns then stuck downstate! This storm will set everything up really nicely for Christmas break.

 

[Capdistski]

Agree that regardless of parking fiasco - I was still on chair by 8:35 so not too bad for me as I said above - it was an awesome day.

Highlights were Sleeping Bear right after they dropped the rope, Topridge in the morning (snow got a little heavy when the sun came out later), and going in and out of powder on Wild Air, Twister, and Showcase which were half/half groomed/ungroomed. By the time I got to Straightbrook I didn’t feel like my legs had ungroomed Hawkeye and Chati in them so I bailed.

But it should all provide a great base that we should have for a while with 12/23 being the only day forecast for anything on the warm side.

Burnt Ridge and Ski Bowl by 12/26? Seems doable if they have enough staff..

 

[NYSnowflake]

Pretty amazing day out there today! Perfect 1st day on snow for me! I enjoyed everything I skied today EXCEPT Pine Knot (NOT!). Glorious start to the season!

 

[tirolski]

yeah, no shit sherlock

Left the dang “to" out sir, but it’s all fixed now.

 

[snoloco]

But it should all provide a great base that we should have for a while with 12/23 being the only day forecast for anything on the warm side.

Burnt Ridge and Ski Bowl by 12/26? Seems doable if they have enough staff..

High Peaks yes, ski bowl no, Burnt Ridge maybe. I was not happy to see zero snowmaking today, with so much terrain still having yet to open.

 

[Kleetus]

Amazing day minus the multiple disasters with the lots and getting Straight Brook open.

I heard an all time BS reason for why it took so long to open Straightbrook. Patrol told folks waiting in line there was an avalanche risk on Hawkeye and was why they couldn't open it and needed to "pack it down" by skiing it multiple (6) times and it was unsafe. Chatemac too. We thought it was in jest but they were dead serious.

So they going to require a beacon, probe, and shovel to ski it from now on after a dump? Of all the reasons I have heard for delaying opening something this is by far the most ridiculous ever. They do know that people actually think and can reason neither trail is that steep to have a full on avalanche and if it did it would go maybe, I don't know, 100 yards

 

[DomB]

I saw that. I'll be there tomorrow but normally Gore hyping up opening something means it's the KOD to actually opening it. Example Lies last year. They hyped opening it for a specific weekend and surprise, it never opened.

I feel trail openings and the ski report at Gore is more of a wish list then what will actually open. I've been seasoned long enough.

They really need to stop doing that.

 

[DomB]

PSA for flatlanders heading up Sunday and all others - some limited services at Gore tmrw. Be safe and have fun.

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR SUNDAY!​

Please take note of this very IMPORTANT UPDATE: Our region is experiencing an area-wide fiber service outage. We are not able to process in-person sales during this outage. Be sure to reload all of your frequent skier tickets online, and buy rentals and lessons from our webstore too. Crews are working to resolve the issue, however an ETA for completion has not yet been provided. Sorry season passholders, your bonus ticket to share cannot be redeemed while our system connection is down. CASH ONLY FOOD SERVICE SUNDAY at all Base Area dining locations. The Saddle Lodge is currently open for shelter and restrooms only. Once this service is restored we can continue business as usual. Please check our online snow report or give us a call for the most current information. We love snow and will always welcome powder days, despite the issues that sometimes tag along. We appreciate your understanding.​