wonderpony
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I wish that they would get their webcams up and working!!
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Greek Peak Conditions
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Campgottagopee
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I'm thinking this is in play
wonderpony
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I guess I can't edit this. I can watch it in Edge, but not Chrome. Phew!
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I dunno, Camp. The weather is going to hell. I had about four lovely inches of snow today at my place. I am not liking 50 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. That said, if things get better, I am ready to go for sure! My ski jacket is in my car (where it lives during ski season), my gear is ready. All we need is some winter!
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Hooray! GP is opening this weekend!
Campgottagopee
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Enjoy
It's nice to see their snowmaking improvements in action.
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GP was rocking this morning! I got there at 9:15. There were far more cars than I expected. I took my inaugural 6 runs on the Bunny Slope and left. The Bunny Slope was in great shape! Major props to the snow making team!
I only saw a few people who may have "forgotten" to pull their masks up after skiing. Sadly, one of those was a coach. And, believe it or not, one of the kids they were coaching seemed to believe that they didn't have to wait in line with the rest of us.
I only saw a few people who may have "forgotten" to pull their masks up after skiing. Sadly, one of those was a coach. And, believe it or not, one of the kids they were coaching seemed to believe that they didn't have to wait in line with the rest of us.
Campgottagopee
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There were quite a few cars, more that I would've guessed there this weekend. Was good to see. Given the forecast I would imagine the guns will fire back up soon.
I skied Greek Saturday for a few hours after lunch. They were open for the day until 4:00. What they had open was pretty nice given what they've had for weather this season. Open was Alpha, Stoic, Meadows, skiers' left side of Elysian Fields, Karyatis, and Platonic. Chairs 1, Visions Quad, and Alpha (3) were running. Chair 1 closed around 2:00 due to lack of customers. Snow was all man made. The snow was your typical Snomax enhanced stuff, decent spring conditions given that temperatures were near 50.
The day felt like a "dry run" for operating under Covid rules, which are:
- You must wear a mask inside the buildings and on the lifts.If you don't wear one you will be tossed out. Without prejudice. Apparently they had practice doing this over the summer!
- They are not going to be allowing bags and stuff to be left in the lodges. There will be lodge sweeps periodically. Not sure where it goes or what they do with it, but it sounded as if your stuff would get tossed. Its clear that you will need to use your car as locker and storage area. Not sure what is happening to customer rented lockers, but it sounds like they won't be available.
- People entering the buildings have to answer a health questionnaire and have temperature checked.
- No more than 2 unrelated people can ride the Quad (and they must ride as far apart as possible). No more than 1 unrelated person can ride a double or triple chair.
- Families and those who came to Greek together can ride the lift together, up to the lifts regular capacity. (A family of 4 can ride the quad together).
- There are two singles lines on the quad (one of the far left and one on the far right). So two unrelated skiers can ride the quad on opposite ends of the chair.
- Reservations are required for everyone, even passholders. While they did not require reservations Saturday, they were scanning everyone's ticket and pass at the bottom of each open lift. If your pass or ticket doesn't show up in the reservation system the lift attendant is supposed to tell you to leave. Reservations can be made up until you ski, but everyone is required to make an online reservation before skiing. Seasons passholders and employees are NOT exempt. The number of reservations is limited to something like 75% of the total number of people that ski Greek on a busy weekend day. Frankly as the session got into these figures I suffered a case of MEGO, so don't quote me on this.
- Group lessons are going to be limited in size, there's going to be more private lessons, we are offering family lesson packages, and school programs are going to be limited this year.
Other things of note:
- They plan on opening the A-Frame lodge on busy days to add bathroom capacity and food service capacity. Capacity will be limited in the Taverna and Trax. Trax seating area is being expanded into the big conference room on the same level. On busy days the Waffle Shack will be open.
- Portable bathrooms were added outside to add bathroom capacity.
It's going to be a weird year. For sure.
The day felt like a "dry run" for operating under Covid rules, which are:
- You must wear a mask inside the buildings and on the lifts.If you don't wear one you will be tossed out. Without prejudice. Apparently they had practice doing this over the summer!
- They are not going to be allowing bags and stuff to be left in the lodges. There will be lodge sweeps periodically. Not sure where it goes or what they do with it, but it sounded as if your stuff would get tossed. Its clear that you will need to use your car as locker and storage area. Not sure what is happening to customer rented lockers, but it sounds like they won't be available.
- People entering the buildings have to answer a health questionnaire and have temperature checked.
- No more than 2 unrelated people can ride the Quad (and they must ride as far apart as possible). No more than 1 unrelated person can ride a double or triple chair.
- Families and those who came to Greek together can ride the lift together, up to the lifts regular capacity. (A family of 4 can ride the quad together).
- There are two singles lines on the quad (one of the far left and one on the far right). So two unrelated skiers can ride the quad on opposite ends of the chair.
- Reservations are required for everyone, even passholders. While they did not require reservations Saturday, they were scanning everyone's ticket and pass at the bottom of each open lift. If your pass or ticket doesn't show up in the reservation system the lift attendant is supposed to tell you to leave. Reservations can be made up until you ski, but everyone is required to make an online reservation before skiing. Seasons passholders and employees are NOT exempt. The number of reservations is limited to something like 75% of the total number of people that ski Greek on a busy weekend day. Frankly as the session got into these figures I suffered a case of MEGO, so don't quote me on this.
- Group lessons are going to be limited in size, there's going to be more private lessons, we are offering family lesson packages, and school programs are going to be limited this year.
Other things of note:
- They plan on opening the A-Frame lodge on busy days to add bathroom capacity and food service capacity. Capacity will be limited in the Taverna and Trax. Trax seating area is being expanded into the big conference room on the same level. On busy days the Waffle Shack will be open.
- Portable bathrooms were added outside to add bathroom capacity.
It's going to be a weird year. For sure.
