Wednesday, April 28, 2010

MegaHarv Snow Totals 09/10

Gore Mountain Snow Totals
By Harvey44 at 9:30 PM
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  1. 2/3/10 Harv - that is some major league ugly.
    Yuk. It looks like the Fri/Sat storm is staying south of NC. Maybe the Catskills will get some love.
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  2. Harv, its great to see Gore can drive a fan gun snowmaker 4 hours downstate to make snow in Central Park in New York City, but can't blow some fresh stuff to reopen Rumor or Sagamore. Typical.
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  3. Has it really come to this? MegaHarv is recording half-inch accumulations?
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  4. I'm sure that the Gore crew had thought long and hard about not publishing annual snow totals, but it is pretty unprecedented for a well-known mountain.

    Even the Greene County ski areas, Hunter/Windham, publish their totals (only 110-ish), which I think is laudable. They know that snowmaking is what keeps them going throughout the winter.

    Gore has a trickier decision in that a decent part of its clientele goes there not to ski snowgunned cut trails, but the natural-snow woods. Do I have that right?
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  5. 70's Gore Kid's Take:
    Gore has a good reason not to publish annual snow figures: you have to remember they are trying to compete with Okemo, Stratton, Mt Snow, and Killington, as well as big sister Whiteface, and if casual destination skiiers saw the real numbers, they would make a bee-line for Vermont.
    We are talking almost half the average annual snowfall of K-mart, year after year after year. Sure, Vermont areas tend to inflate their nubmers, Strattton specifically by repoting mid-mountain amounts of snowfall. But Gore has the natural disadvantage of sitting in a dry spot, about 50 miles east of the last of the Lake Effect snows, but about 50 miles too far west to catch those spinning clipper systems that park themsleves off the Maine coast. Elevation and latitude wise, Gore is colder than southern Vermont, but elevation doesn't mean more snow here as it does in Utah. That's why Gore made such a huge deal of tapping the "mighty Hudson river" back in 1997 or so, for the PR that implies Gore will therefore make more snow than Kmart and Mt Snow. Of course, that was before ORDA's budget cuts which now means minimal snowmaking on a minimal snow mountain. Gore Kid.
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  7. 70's Gore Kid:
    OK, I started skiing Gore and Southern VT 35 years ago, and I NEVER, never recall Gore getting a big dumping of snow while VT got rain. This is wild and wacky stuff. I think I also saw a flying monkey last night. Hey Harv, any way to retract my last post? 70's Gore Kid
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  8. Sorry to sound like someone from Glendale CA, but you're measuring snow on a lift-served mountain -- a service that you laudably provide because the ski area doesn't publish that stat for public consumption.

    Shouldn't your "TOTAL GORE SNOWFALL" number distinguish between snow that contributes to a usable base for lift-served skiing and that which falls several weeks before and/or after the official season?
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  9. I've got ski days in my counts that don't include lift service, and I'll count any snow that falls between the June solstices as well.

    If I could be at Gore this weekend, I'd be hiking Lies, and I'm sure at that elevation (3000') the snowfall was significant.

    There are all kinds of caveats that could be applied to the numbers above. If 2 inches of snow falls overnight, followed by 2 inches of r**n should the snow be counted?

    When I look back at these numbers in the future, I want to be able to remember the season. While Gore got a small amount out of yesterday's snowfall, the event was an important part of the season in parts of NY, VT, NH and Maine.

    People are out there right now ripping it up and I want it on record.
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