Gore Mountain Conditions

[DomB]

Echo Cork. Hawkeye was quite fun and good snow, mostly groomed out so the whales are gone. We did some laps on it in the morning with my son and our friend's daughter. When we skied that, it was in heavy fog. Spring conditions aside from the fog. Called it around 1:30. Topridge was fun with some patchy spots that made it interesting.

Lowest number of skiers I've seen at Gore, though someone still managed to ski over the back of my skis, dropping an 'on your right' on Wild Air (if you're on this blog, please don't do that anymore). Not sure how on earth there was any need for that, but it was a good day skiing!

 

[Petronio]

Skied today . . . we drove up last night and stayed at the Super 8 in Warrensburg as I did not want to do a 5:30 a.m. departure from Poughkeepsie. (Clean and cheap -- would stay again.) Got there before they started sending people up. Early runs were hard and fast, but hard to see because of ice coming down instead of snow. Finally late morning it turned to actual snow. Conditions were a lot better than I expected . . .

Showcase: Getting bad in some spots, generally solid coverage. Skier's right is for adventurous skiers only.
Twister: Very good cover, was skiing nicely late morning and early afternoon. They have done a great job laying down a solid base for rest of season.
Tahawus: Good cover, skied very nicely the entire way.
Sleeping Bear: Upper trail sketchy as always, not the greatest skiing. Tahawus the better choice for now.
Wild Air: Good cover.
Quicksilver: Very upper part of trail could use some snow -- always seems to get scraped off. Rest of trail has good cover, once the snow starts coming down should bump up nicely.

Upper mountain was closed due to (from what I heard) staffing shortages due to COVID. You could take the gondola but the only trails available were Foxlair and Ruby Run. Went we went up in the morning and found out we were being denied Topridge and Hawkeye, it was so foggy we had no desire to do Foxlair so took Ruby Run back to Tahawus.

Also apparently closed due to COVID: fireplaces where you can warm kids' frozen toes, or even an outdoor fire pit -- because it spreads so easily in the open air!! But don't worry, even though you are at risk waiting in line for food, your risk plummets when you walk 20 feet into the next room and sit down to eat. (OK, enough of my complaining about the inane rules laid down by state mandarins.)

Overall a very good day of skiing, and conditions better than I had hoped given last week's weather. Kudos to Gore staff for keeping the trails in good shape.

Petronio

 

[Cork]

Upper mountain was closed due to (from what I heard) staffing shortages due to COVID. You could take the gondola but the only trails available were Foxlair and Ruby Run. Went we went up in the morning and found out we were being denied Topridge and Hawkeye, it was so foggy we had no desire to do Foxlair so took Ruby Run back to Tahawus.

Not sure where you got your information, but it was not due to Covid, rather Mother Nature and frozen conditions.

Also apparently closed due to COVID: fireplaces where you can warm kids' frozen toes, or even an outdoor fire pit -- because it spreads so easily in the open air!! But don't worry, even though you are at risk waiting in line for food, your risk plummets when you walk 20 feet into the next room and sit down to eat. (OK, enough of my complaining about the inane rules laid down by state mandarins.)

The Fireplace at The Saddle Lodge has been operational and burning all season. I will say that that they have been lacking on the patio fireplaces this year.

Overall a very good day of skiing, and conditions better than I had hoped given last week's weather. Kudos to Gore staff for keeping the trails in good shape.

Petronio

Yes, with the weather changes that occurred overnight and throughout the day, condtions were good.

 

[tirolski]

Not sure where you got your information, but it was not due to Covid, rather Mother Nature and frozen conditions.

The groomers couldn’t groom it up top too,
It’s not that many trails and most of em already opened were blues?

Other trails elsewhere on the mountain were open.
Initially the web page said the upper lifts would be open today.
It’s a holiday weekend, allegedly.

 

[Harvey]

@Cork or @DomB ...would you call the snow today measurable? How much?

Gore can record zero when I see accumulations.

Gore Mountain Snow Totals 2021-2022

Gore Mountain Snow Totals 2021 - 2022: Count on NYSkiBlog for the Gore Mountain snow data that isn't published on any other website.

nyskiblog.com

 

[Cork]

The groomers couldn’t groom it up top too,
It’s not that many trails and most of em already opened were blues?

Other trails elsewhere on the mountain were open.
Initially the web page said the upper lifts would be open today.
It’s a holiday weekend, allegedly.

The temps didn't drop until around 5am and it was a choice of redo the lower mt and make it skiable or make an attempt to just get cloud/headwaters open. Easy decision. It was slick at my HQ this morning when I was out with the dogs at 7.
Why do you feel you feel that you can make your assumptions from watching the webcam? The webpage is based upon planned/weather condtions, and clearly state that; so if the weather changes, which it did, it is what it is.

 

[Alfredeneumann]

Skied today . . . we drove up last night and stayed at the Super 8 in Warrensburg as I did not want to do a 5:30 a.m. departure from Poughkeepsie. (Clean and cheap -- would stay again.) Got there before they started sending people up. Early runs were hard and fast, but hard to see because of ice coming down instead of snow. Finally late morning it turned to actual snow. Conditions were a lot better than I expected . . .

Showcase: Getting bad in some spots, generally solid coverage. Skier's right is for adventurous skiers only.
Twister: Very good cover, was skiing nicely late morning and early afternoon. They have done a great job laying down a solid base for rest of season.
Tahawus: Good cover, skied very nicely the entire way.
Sleeping Bear: Upper trail sketchy as always, not the greatest skiing. Tahawus the better choice for now.
Wild Air: Good cover.
Quicksilver: Very upper part of trail could use some snow -- always seems to get scraped off. Rest of trail has good cover, once the snow starts coming down should bump up nicely.

Upper mountain was closed due to (from what I heard) staffing shortages due to COVID. You could take the gondola but the only trails available were Foxlair and Ruby Run. Went we went up in the morning and found out we were being denied Topridge and Hawkeye, it was so foggy we had no desire to do Foxlair so took Ruby Run back to Tahawus.

Also apparently closed due to COVID: fireplaces where you can warm kids' frozen toes, or even an outdoor fire pit -- because it spreads so easily in the open air!! But don't worry, even though you are at risk waiting in line for food, your risk plummets when you walk 20 feet into the next room and sit down to eat. (OK, enough of my complaining about the inane rules laid down by state mandarins.)

Overall a very good day of skiing, and conditions better than I had hoped given last week's weather. Kudos to Gore staff for keeping the trails in good shape.

Petronio

Like the genius that came up with the idea to take the chairs out of the main room in the base lodge? Resulting in everyone sitting and eating jammed together in the back rooms and downstairs, more dangerous than if they were spread more evenly throughout the building.

 

[Moe]

Like the genius that came up with the idea to take the chairs out of the main room in the base lodge? Resulting in everyone sitting and eating jammed together in the back rooms and downstairs, more dangerous than if they were spread more evenly throughout the building.

 

[tirolski]

The temps didn't drop until around 5am and it was a choice of redo the lower mt and make it skiable or make an attempt to just get cloud/headwaters open. Easy decision. It was slick at my HQ this morning when I was out with the dogs at 7.
Why do you feel you feel that you can make your assumptions from watching the webcam? The webpage is based upon planned/weather condtions, and clearly state that; so if the weather changes, which it did, it is what it is.

I read their snow/lift report not the web cam.
It looked like they planned to have em running.
I have no idea why they didn’t run em, what ya say makes some sense.
They know Mtn Ops better than I.

Topridge pod wasn’t running either & has nothing to do with cloud/headwaters,
it was what it was.

 

[Petronio]

Not sure where you got your information

Good question, there is nothing anywhere at the base indicating what is open and what isn't. (Maybe I missed it but I looked a few places.) I asked one of the lifties at the gondola loading station-- reply was "I don't know, they don't tell us anything." So I guess it is customers and staff to guess and gossip.