Recent content by gregmarx

Not sure if this plan is still operative, but ORDA has previously said the restaurant is supposed to be year-round, and along with the zipcoaster will "transform the Ski Bowl into a year-round destination." Reason to be skeptical it will succeed, but only way to make sense of the scale of...

For anyone who watched the meeting or has info beyond what's in the reporting, does this bit... ... mean they haven't actually decided whether the new lodge will open this winter?

Pico opened for the season today with almost the whole mountain showing open, though I assume a lot of that was thin cover on natural snow (and only the main lifts running so the upper half of the lower mountain trails off to the side wouldn't have been accessible). I knew about it bc they...

I've gotten a lot of utility out of that site, but the system of assigning equal weight to 10 different categories is going to produce occasional odd outcomes. And in this case, some of the individual ratings just seem off. Windham and Belleayre do not have the same snow/resiliency. Windham is...

I haven't made it there yet this year, but Belleayre is reporting 52 trails open tomorrow. I believe essentially everything that has snowmaking except for Cathedral Brook is showing open on the report. I know they have a lot of things working in their favor, but that's pretty impressive for Dec. 12

Not sure where to put this, but a Brooklyn state assemblyman and ex-assemblyman from Lake Placid have an op-ed: "Bring the Winter Olympics to NYC & Lake Placid." Paywalled, but here's the vision:

I haven't made it there myself yet but believe this is now complete and fully open.

drawings here: https://nyskiblog.com/forum/threads/ordas-biggest-mistakes.1539/post-86724 construction photos here: https://nyskiblog.com/forum/threads/ordas-biggest-mistakes.1539/post-86780 aerial view of Overlook from a couple weeks ago, grabbed from FB, shown here

There was discussion of this in this article from a couple weeks ago: There was a round of coverage from last January that ORDA was gonna build an on-site septic system because it was known then that the town sewer wouldn't be ready. I can't find any coverage between then and November on why...

Some more coverage on the Ski Bowl lodge situation here: https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/52671/20251124/as-ski-season-begins-new-orda-lodge-at-gore-remains-closed-amid-disputes Main news is at the end: "So, it seems like they've settled on an agreement that would allow this...

Only one of them is on the current map, and I don't think it's open often. The new-ish GM was on Storm Skiing podcast awhile back, I just listened to it the other day. Stuart asked about those glades but the answer was there's just not often enough natural snow at that spot and it didn't sound...

Totally agree, I've spent a bunch of time along the Route 28 corridor the last few summers, it's a combination of breakneck traffic from Fri-Sun afternoon and simultaneously (imo) less overall visitation than it deserves. And of course downtown Woodstock is nuts on weekends. The idea that the...

This sounds really cool to me but when I went looking for info on where it stands most recent thing I found was a (paywalled) Times-Union article from April: "Ulster County committee recommends no rail line to Ashokan Reservoir." The recommendation was to make the section where the railroad...

Snow report says Belle opening 11/21 for pass holders, 11/22 for the general public

Yeah, I get that she was a big local booster of the project originally and she's gone. But a different guy was supervisor when the deal was announced about the lodge connecting with the town wastewater facility. Yet another guy is supervisor now, and apparently in ORDA's version of events he's...