Gore Mountain Conditions

[DomB]

DomB,

I am there on Thursday with my adult Secret Society group in the AM. I am available for trouble in the PM however.

Tom-Tom

Thanks, Tom-Tom! I'll PM you. Right now the plan is to ski Tuesday and Wednesday, work Thursday, Friday. I am checking in with work folks and may just ski Thursday and work Thursday night . . . . I'll pm you my cell. All my best.

 

[SIAWOL]

I don't think anyone would have wanted to ski the summit yesterday.

+1. Freeze/thaw and fog. Surely upper mountain a disaster---Im fine with it staying closed Sunday. Lapped the lower mountain and got better with each run once that frozen corduroy got chewed up a bit, and even that took awhile to happen. That stuff was firm, boy. Higher angle stuff wouldve been a sled-fest.

Why bother putting some logic together with the weather and conditions when you can just speculate and get the rumors going instead?

I know we have some with attitudes but really, can you blame them. Thank you to ALL of the ORDA employees that have to put up with all of us! Still damn proud to call Gore my home mountain! If you don't like it here, you have the option to go somewhere else.

 

[tirolski]

frozen corduroy got chewed up a bit, and even that took awhile to happen. That stuff was firm, boy.

Ya need a lot of force to make icerroy sing and/or move.

 

[TomCat]

Firm and fast as expected today, but good overall. Hawkeye was scraped off when I arrived around 11:00. Everything else was good. Almost no visibility early. At one point on AE2, I couldn’t see the chair in front of me.

Tom

 

[TomCat]

Yesterday I went to the ski bowl to try some Nordic. Very humbling.

Tom

 

[Doghouse]

Skied Gore this morning 8:30-12:30 shift. Overall, conditions were pretty good especially given the recent weather. They were taking advantage of the cold temps and blowing a lot of snow on several trails on the lower mountain. Fog was an issue for most of the morning but cleared as the day went on. Upper mountain didn't open til after 10:00 and by 11:00 there were some pretty cool views of an impressive cloud shelf. Hawkeye -firm and fast with very good cover. Mountain Ops doing a great job resurfacing and blowing snow!

 

[freeheeln]

And her name is Safety Cindy!

I thought it was Careful Karen.

 

[DomB]

Skied a few hours from late morning to mid afternoon. Conditions were very firm. They were blowing a lot of snow on showcase, wild air and arena, so those should be really nice. In a few spots they left access to the whales, which was fun.

Hawkeye, Cloud and Topridge were very firm. Side note: I am driving around the area to the surrounding towns - it is beautiful up here.

 

[Harvey]

I am driving around the area to the surrounding towns - it is beautiful up here.

Dom are you new to the area? Where are you driving?

 

[Andy_ROC]

All this talk about "firm" conditions makes my knees hurt. Oh well I guess that's our reality with the freeze, thaw cycle we have.