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You are only thinking in terms of YOUR interest, alpine skiing. Whether you care or not, Gore has become a center for recreational and competitive Nordic skiing as other venues have been lost due to lack of snow. And there’s the planned roller coaster zip line thingy planned for summer use...

1. The new lodge is not just about alpine. B. I agree 100% that there is no need for a high speed lift to replace the Hudson chair. That lift is 3733’. Fixed grip lifts travel approximately 500 feet per minute, detachable at 1000 FPM. An article I read quoted Aspen’s policy as keeping a lift...

Amen. We had missed out on Burnt Ridge being open on Friday so we headed there first today. Brilliant sun almost felt warm even though the temp was around 20, and no wind. Everything in the pod skied great except for Sagamore, which was mostly crud until the last pitch which was lovely pow. If...

I like that ORDA spends money on stuff that a private area would not. Their mandate is not turning a profit. Besides running a ski area, it’s preserving the Adirondack forest and the historic parts of that ski area (snowmaking on Pipeline, Peaceful Valley, Wood Out), supporting other Olympic...

ORDA’s intent for that lodge is for multi use for various activities. Hyping it as another base and alternative parking area with improved lifts/trails/snowmaking is their token effort at selling it to the alpine skiers.

I doubt that it’s unwillingness to spend on payroll. With unemployment at near record low, it’s more likely they can’t hire enough. Snowmakers, groomers, lifties, mechanics and ski patrol are all semi skilled to highly skilled positions, you can’t just hire someone off the street and train them...

It’s ORDA’s wet dream!

Who’s volunteering to jump in that first cabin tomorrow morning?

Next time you ski down Sleeping Bear, take a look at skier’s right on the top part. Half of each whale got blown into the woods, then cut off by the groomers. Narrow trail or poorly aimed guns?

They make snow on Upper Steilhang. How wide does the trail have to be?

You have never heard of the concept of reforestation? It involves seedlings by the thousands planted by hand or by machine. The state actually grows millions of seedlings every year. https://dec.ny.gov/nature/forests-trees/saratoga-tree-nursery I’ll bet that other state agencies get them for a...

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Apples and oranges, but since you asked, there was interest a few years ago in hauling those tailings out of there on the existing rail line to use for road building materials. A win-win, it saves having to mine stone for roadways elsewhere, and cleans up and restores what’s left from the old...

The marketing report on the website is fantasy. Also check this blog and comments on the Gore FB page before you travel.

What do you think the chances are that Ops is using this 10-14 days of gondola down time to perform some deferred maintenance to get the beast into good shape so this doesn’t happen again? Or maybe not? I mean, what could go wrong?

Every trail you mentioned was cut twice as wide as it should have been. There is no reason to lay down a soccer pitch of snow on trails a hundred meters wide. Some time ago on this thread I made my pitch for the Gore Reforestation Initiative, where trees would be planted on these skiing...

Finishing Echo would absorb a lot of traffic, unless they blow it and then close it for a race. And then you also have to make snow on Pipeline and/or Cedars so you can get to the BR lift, both of which are a LOT of acres of snow. How about blowing Lower Darby, Wood Lots, Santanoni and...

Tomorrow’s marketing report is amusingly imaginative. For example, Uncas is open but Tannery and Straightbrook chair are not. Better pack skins, or a tent and sleeping bag. Doesn't anyone proofread before posting?

Relying on your oldest lifts (gondola, Topridge, Straightbrook) instead of featuring your newest one (High Peaks) - what could go wrong?