Poll: What changes would you like to see at your home mountain?

[snoloco]

If Gore decides to run only one of the two lifts from the base area, then it's going to be the gondola every time. I'm not sure why @Milo Maltbie is so obsessed with closing it.

 

[snoloco]

2. I'd like the staff to stop telling me where I can and can't park as well as not allowing me to drive a FWD car up the road when I'm completely fine doing so.

Is there an official requirement for 4×4? FWD + snow tires should be more than adequate in most situations.

 

[raisingarizona]

Is there an official requirement for 4×4? FWD + snow tires should be more than adequate in most situations.

That’s their claim but I’m not sure it’s legal.

 

[Milo Maltbie]

If Gore decides to run only one of the two lifts from the base area, then it's going to be the gondola every time.

In the past few years they’ve almost always run two lifts from the base. Apparently they either want to provide easy access to the Saddle or they think they need an open air lift in addition to the gondola. If only 2 lifts run, and AE2 has to be one of them, which would you shut down, the gondola or the High Peaks? They often shut down the HP.

mm

 

[Milo Maltbie]

Is there an official requirement for 4×4? FWD + snow tires should be more than adequate in most situations.

You will never win that argument. “Everyone knows “ that AWD is the only thing that works and that tires don’t matter.

mm

 

[snoloco]

In the past few years they’ve almost always run two lifts from the base. Apparently they either want to provide easy access to the Saddle or they think they need an open air lift in addition to the gondola. If only 2 lifts run, and AE2 has to be one of them, which would you shut down, the gondola or the High Peaks? They often shut down the HP.

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They don't need the Adirondack Express on most weekdays, and they didn't run it on weekdays earlier this year. The gondola has enough capacity, serves the same terrain plus better summit access, and is a more comfortable ride. No resort in the east that has a gondola chooses not to run it on weekdays.

The days High Peaks wasn't open, it was due to lack of snow. It's open this week. Burnt Ridge isn't, but they are making snow on Echo and Gore typically closes trails with active snowmaking.

 

[SayvilleSteve]

They don't need the Adirondack Express on most weekdays,

...if Fairview is open. Otherwise you have to take Ruby Run to ski Twister, Showcase or the North Side. No one should ever be forced to take Ruby Run.

 

[Harvey]

Revel in Ruby Run my son, embrace Gore and all it's Cloudy-ness.

Or just leave Gore to the rest of us, we love it!

 

[rebel1916]

There was always a pond up there they used for snowmaking. I think it is still there. After Hurricane Irene in 2011 (or another storm?), the region needed gravel/stone to repair damage from the storm. Laz offered the stone for free in an attempt to add to the water storage at the top of the mountain. It turned out the hole would not hold water and it is too expensive to line the hole.

Ah, I always wondered if they were hoping to tap into ground water, but the bedrock blocked them, or something.

 

[rebel1916]

If Gore decides to run only one of the two lifts from the base area, then it's going to be the gondola every time. I'm not sure why @Milo Maltbie is so obsessed with closing it.

Well lapping gondolas sucks, so that's one good reason.