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As for the gondola issues, it will try to evenly space all the cabins no matter how many are on the line. I believe there's a specific setting for it to leave a gap as if a cabin were there. So if that wasn't used, then it's going to try to respace everything. When they cabins were added back...

And there you have it, snowmaking on Rumor. Taken 10 minutes ago.

As much of a failure it would be to skip Rumor, I have a hard time criticizing Gore for bad snowmaking, when Whiteface is run by the same agency. When you expand your snowmaking footprint and sign up for large snowmaking commitments for events, and don't expand your snowmaking capacity, it...

It was never open any of the days I was there last year, and they never made snow on it. Same with Kidderbrook and Free Fall. Those 3 are among my favorites at Stratton. I also really like Upper Standard.

I went to Stratton today to meet up with my dad, and because they had some of my favorite trails open that I hadn't skied in a while. A bluebird day in the morning, that gradually got cloudy, and ended with my first time skiing in a thunderstorm on my last few runs. Black Bear Upper...

Unless they actually confirmed that they are done with snowmaking, how could you write off Rumor just yet? There's a good window to work with next week. Has there ever been a year that it didn't open?

The report still says they are setting up on Rumor, like it has for 5 days now. I assume they'll hit it after the weekend. It has taken too long. Not sure about anything else. Be glad that they moved the competition from January 28th to now. Otherwise Burnt Ridge and then ski bowl would've...

Why are they even considering adding any new trails when they don't have the snowmaking capacity to cover what they've got? Build a snowmaking pond before anymore new lifts, lodges, or trails.

I plan my day to move through each section and do each traverse only once. Usually, I go in the order of Gondola, Topridge, Straightbrook, High Peaks, North, and that covers the entire Upper Mountain, usually with a lunch break at the saddle between High Peaks and North. Then after I finish...

I'm not sure why they never plowed Lot H. This was one of the rare days they could have used it. Hopefully they had enough shuttle buses, because that's a crazy long walk. Bottom of the access road to the main base is also a 500 vertical climb.

I skied open to close, mostly avoiding the main base and sticking to the outer areas. Run count as follows: Gondola - Ruby, Showcase Gondola - Topridge Topridge - Uncas, Lower Uncas, Tannery Topridge - Pine Knot Topridge - Topridge Topridge - Uncas Topridge - Ruby, The Loop, Pete Gay North -...

Riding a lift with snow guns in your face the whole way is not a pleasant experience. It also gets on the chairs and grips and can cause problems with the lift. Snow is made where the lines are charged, and that's not necessarily where it makes the most sense to make it, or where it is most...

Showcase has the challenge of not being able to make snow while the lift is open. So they either have to close the lift on weekdays to make snow, or only hit short windows at night. During the 2 weeks the gondola was down, closing the AE2 was not an option, so they never got it covered to full...

The guns were staged on Rumor when I was there on Sunday. It's the last "never skip" trail that they need to cover. I'd also like to see them hit Lower Steilhang, Pete Gay, and Twin Fawns before snowmaking winds down for the year.

They are certainly running out of time. All of their snowmaking upgrades don't seem to have moved the needle the way they did at Gore.

The reason is that they are making snow on Showcase. The chairs were offloaded at the end of today. It's pretty common for lifts to be closed for snowmaking on the lift line trail, especially where the guns need to be placed close to the lift. Since the gondola reopened, they've been running...

Lies actually did open. Looking at how much snowmaking terrain Gore has open, and comparing it to other resorts, they're not really far off. As for the season length, if we go from this past weekend to the last weekend in March, that's 11 weeks. If they make the first weekend of April, then...

Tell them not to go out of bounds. It's that simple.

These idiots all chose to ski out of bounds, when they did not have the skills or knowledge to do so safely. Don't go out of bounds and you won't have a problem. There's nothing to be scared of.

I don't know for sure, but it could have been wind. When I was there last Sunday, a lot of the snow was blowing back into the trees. That snowmaking line was installed when they had no fixed equipment on the trail and only used ratnik ground guns. It's possible that it wasn't installed on the...