Campgottagopee
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Gore Mountain Conditions
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He can go virtually invisible to boot.
Just the tracks are observable.
Dogs can smell him.
They love the way he smells.
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Alfredeneumann
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I feel your pain. Here at 1500’ on the Rensselaer Plateau we stayed at or above freezing, but the ground was frozen solid so the rain froze there. 4 am Monday I drove my daughter to the airport, the first 0.3 mile skidding sideways down a 13% grade on solid ice. 15 minutes to go the one mile to the state road. Town truck still hadn’t been around to drop salt/gravel when I got back at 530, but going up was easier than down.
Capdistski
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Straightbrook chair is down, and headwaters and open pit aren’t open yet. At least they messaged both on website but a drag after they promised those runs last night.
Milo Maltbie
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Sounds like every day last year. Are you sure you didn’t fall through a tear in the space-time continuum?
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Cork
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Ok so, the straightbrook chair is down and out with what seems to be a bad main bearing in the drive. Could possibly be a week or more. Guess it was a great idea to replace the Topridge chair instead of the Straightbrook chair as was supposed to be.
High Peaks chair was open, but with no access from the summit, wood in only.
So if you want to ski Chatiemac, you have to take wood in to the High Peaks chair, skate over to Chatiemac, ski down to Topridge chair via Tannery, up Topridge and back to the Saddle and rinse and repeat...
I would so love to a fly on the wall at the 2pm meeting today!!
High Peaks chair was open, but with no access from the summit, wood in only.
So if you want to ski Chatiemac, you have to take wood in to the High Peaks chair, skate over to Chatiemac, ski down to Topridge chair via Tannery, up Topridge and back to the Saddle and rinse and repeat...
I would so love to a fly on the wall at the 2pm meeting today!!
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Alfredeneumann
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Bad main bearing because of running last season with a cable that was too short?Ok so, the straightbrook chair is down and out with a bad main bearing in the drive. Could be a week or more. Guess it was a great idea to replace the Topridge chair instead of the Straightbrook chair as was supposed to be.
High Peaks chair was open, but with no access from the summit, wood in only.
So if you want to ski Chatiemac, you have to take wood in to the High Peaks chair, skate over to Chatiemac, ski down to Topridge chair via Tannery, up Topridge and back to the Saddle and rinse and repeat...Absolute stupidness!
I would so love to a fly on the wall at the 2pm meeting today!!
Where did I leave that maintenance planning consultant’s phone number?
Milo Maltbie
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So they replaced the rope (twice) but no one inspected the drive bearing?
Before he retired Howie told me that Straightbrook was the next lift to be replaced, but they did the Topfridgebelt loader fixed grip instead. It's gonna be a long time before Straightbrook is replaced after they re-roped it.
We were at Gore last year when Straightbrook broke down. That might have been when they discovered that the new rope was too long. We lapped Rumor by Headwaters>Tannery>Topridge>Ruby>Wood In>High Peaks. It took a long time but there was no one on Rumor and it stayed skiable (for me) all day. Sometimes easy access is not the best answer.
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Before he retired Howie told me that Straightbrook was the next lift to be replaced, but they did the Topfridge
We were at Gore last year when Straightbrook broke down. That might have been when they discovered that the new rope was too long. We lapped Rumor by Headwaters>Tannery>Topridge>Ruby>Wood In>High Peaks. It took a long time but there was no one on Rumor and it stayed skiable (for me) all day. Sometimes easy access is not the best answer.
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