Hickory may be back soon

[jamesdeluxe]

I think Mont Alta is out of business.

It's a nonprofit-y hill run by volunteers -- put these through Google Translate:

Expérience Mont-Alta: la classe-neige! - Zone.Ski

NOTE: CE TEXTE A ÉTÉ ÉCRIT EN FÉVRIER 2020. NOUS AVONS CONSERVÉ LE TEMPS PRÉSENT DANS LE RÉCIT MAIS CERTAINS DÉTAILS CONCERNANT LA FORMATION DÉCRITE PEUVENT AVOIR CHANGÉ DEPUIS. La montagne mythique En tant que formateur pour Expérience Mont-Alta, je porte un manteau aux couleurs de la station...

zone.ski

Expérience Mont Alta, nombril de semaine en poudreuse, 8 janvier 2020 - Zone.Ski

Outre les très vaillants skieurs qui sont allés profiter de la neige dans l’est du Québec, rares sont ceux dont les spatules ont pu bénéficier d’une bonne quantité de neige fraiche depuis le début de la saison. On le dit partout, les flocons naturels sont plus rares et malgré quelques petites...

zone.ski

 

[x10003q]

Greylock gets around this because it’s a private club. Members and guests only.

Also - the ski area must be a privately owned, non-profit, and less than 2000 skier visits in the preceding year. This is in Massachusetts. Everybody signs a waiver that clearly states there is no insurance. I wonder if other states have something similar?

 

[Harvey]

Also - the ski area must be a privately owned, non-profit, and less than 2000 skier visits in the preceding year. This is in Massachusetts. Everybody signs a waiver that clearly states there is no insurance. I wonder if other states have something similar?

X you never cease to amaze me.

It's a nonprofit-y hill run by volunteers -- put these through Google Translate:

Expérience Mont-Alta: la classe-neige! - Zone.Ski

NOTE: CE TEXTE A ÉTÉ ÉCRIT EN FÉVRIER 2020. NOUS AVONS CONSERVÉ LE TEMPS PRÉSENT DANS LE RÉCIT MAIS CERTAINS DÉTAILS CONCERNANT LA FORMATION DÉCRITE PEUVENT AVOIR CHANGÉ DEPUIS. La montagne mythique En tant que formateur pour Expérience Mont-Alta, je porte un manteau aux couleurs de la station...

zone.ski

Expérience Mont Alta, nombril de semaine en poudreuse, 8 janvier 2020 - Zone.Ski

Outre les très vaillants skieurs qui sont allés profiter de la neige dans l’est du Québec, rares sont ceux dont les spatules ont pu bénéficier d’une bonne quantité de neige fraiche depuis le début de la saison. On le dit partout, les flocons naturels sont plus rares et malgré quelques petites...

zone.ski

The point stands that they are having a hard time making money even though they have some natural advantages over Hickory.

 

[Milo Maltbie]

Hickory was the canary in the coal mine of eastern skiing.
Until 1976, Gore was 100% natural snow. How many days would Gore be open without 100% snowmaking?

mm

 

[Cork]

Hickory was the canary in the coal mine of eastern skiing.
Until 1976, Gore was 100% natural snow. How many days would Gore be open without 100% snowmaking?

mm

How many days would any Eastern Ski area be open without snowmaking??

 

[x10003q]

How many days would any Eastern Ski area be open without snowmaking??

Exactly. There would be no eastern skiing without snowmaking.

 

[Ripitz]

If you counted Tuckerman’s as a ski area (which has no snowmaking), it would beat Killington (which has the most), every year.

 

[Harvey]

The reason that Gore does not have the distinction of having the first ski patrol is because Stowe opened earlier that year (1934).

Gore's patrol was launched on the first day of season, March 4.

New York's First Ski Patrol

In March of 1934, the first ski patrol in NY was born at Gore Mountain.

nyskiblog.com

 

[witch hobble]

What is more “pie in the sky”:

Bringing lift service skiing back to Hickory?

Or running for Warrensburg supervisor as a Democrat?

 

[tirolski]

Hickory pie is good says the PressDemocrat paper.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/lifestyle/in-season-hickory-nut-is-buttery-sweet-and-hard-to-beat/