Whiteface Conditions

[D.B. Cooper]

Seems like a short life for a main bearing? Especially if it is rarely used?

It does, although maybe the low amount of use it gets contributes to additional repairs.
Side note: as a fellow blogger said this past weekend, kudos to Whiteface for letting people know. As the saying goes, "There's no good time for bad news and no bad time for good news."

 

[JTG]

For all you WF experts…..winds through the weekend will be out of the West. I’ve been there on very windy days when there were no lift problems. Probably had to do with wind direction. West winds are in your face for most WF lifts. Anyone know how the Summit Quad and Little Whiteface lifts fare in such winds?

 

[Ethan Snow]

Seems like a short life for a main bearing? Especially if it is rarely used?

It would certainly seem that way. I'm not a chairlift expert, but I remember Laz telling me once that they should be serviced every 10 years on average. Considering how underutilized that lift is to begin with it is very likely that preventative maintenance, such as greasing could have been neglected. It's been sitting out in the weather for 15 years. That's plenty long enough for damage to occur regardless of hours if routine maintenance, and inspections are not performed. This is purely speculation on my part, I do not have access to the maintenance logs for that lift.

 

[Harvey]

Had maybe 6 inches? Good skiing.

 

[ADKmike]

Solid day of skiing! Best conditions I skied this season and the winds held off(mostly)...really fun day skiing with my dad, brother, and others...double shot of free refills at 3pm on mountain run, tight right, runs of the day!

 

[Harvey]

SHOUT OUT to @ADKmike @Jon951 Keith @D.B. Cooper @Face4Me and @3dogs for skiing with me all day. Great hospitality from the Whiteface crew, inviting me in to your home to meet, beers, place to crash and great company. And Niagara!

Great day, going to see what I've got for pics.

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[D.B. Cooper]

Not busy today. Skyward was great early; less so by 9:30. Wind was taking a small toll with patches of hardpack in between many turns. Skier's left of Lower Sky, below Ladies' Drop was great. Cloudspin looked very good but only got at it from Lower Switchback.

Yesterday was definitely the better of the 2 days. I don't think there's a lot of coverage underneath. Warm Temps this week may cause some damage.

 

[Campgottagopee]

SHOUT OUT to @ADKmike @Jon951 Keith @D.B. Cooper @Face4Me and @3dogs for skiing with me all day. Great hospitality from the Whiteface crew, inviting me in to your home to meet, beers, place to crash and great company. And Niagara!

Great day, going to see what I've got for pics.

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Cool you got to hang with a couple off the AzzClowns. Good fun with those people

 

[JTG]

Everything I skied today skied very well. Of course half of what I skied today I “shouldn’t have skied”. Oh, well!

Cloudspin skied great. It wasn’t (technically) open. The rope on Slide View Glades was “down”. Not sure if it was supposed to be….but despite being thin it skied well. A birdie told me Cloudsplitter Glades looked like this…..but it wasn’t open.

Every groomer in between skied great. This morning was cold and windy. By this afternoon the wind was gone (mostly), the sun was out, and skiing was a pleasure. Looking forward to tomorrow…

 

[Harvey]

Cloudspin 2pm

@ADKmike on Mountain Run Sunday March 12 2022 3:45pm