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“The lodge will support business conferences and corporate outtings. It will also serve as a model for the four additional hotels to be located at the Ski Bowl Village at Gore Mountain.” Five hotels? That’s a lot of poop!

High school xc is certainly not sustainable if individual school districts have to make snow to have a venue, but it’s great to have a state facility with it so they can go there when there’s no natural snow at closer venues. Queensbury, Glens Falls, Saratoga and Shen, maybe others, are all...

Trail on the existing service road from top of BR to Twister. Loss of glades = 0 Tunnels required = 0 Cost = some dynamite and bulldozer time.

Echo is closed a lot for racing, midweek and weekends, and is a huge PITA on mob scene Saturdays. But no one seems to be complaining on this thread about that, cuz it‘s alpine? A much simpler solution than destroying Cirque Glade (which is on the wrong side of Echo to get to main base anyway) to...

If there was a food concession or vending machines there during events they would be making a ton of money. Haven’t you seen the alpine racer kids eat in the main lodge? Those racers and families know there’s nothing at the Ski Bowl except a bathroom and a place to sit while you boot up, they...

Yup, barely a handful. Check out some of these handfuls: https://goremountain.com/nordic-center-events/ Or the handful of finishers at these events: https://underdogtiming.com/2023-race-results In case you didn’t get it - SARCASM ALERT!!! Based on relative number of skier-days, including anyone...

Thanks for proving my point. The Ski Bowl expansion is not just for your alpine skiing pleasure or lack thereof. MVH will be the venue for national and international nordic compedition,but Ski Bowl is already being used not only for regional high school and other Nordic racing, but for area...

OPRHP doesn’t run any of those events, and there’s no state money going into them. They are just providing links.

Empire State Games were administered by the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation from 1978 to 2010. Empire State Senior Games are a spin-off run by a not for profit organization. I attended every summer ESG as either an athlete, coach, official or state competition chair for...

Among the reasons for the three state ski areas are to provide recreational opportunities for NY’s citizens, give an economic boost to economically depressed areas of the state, and provide venues to bring world class events to NY (see reason #2). That’s working poorly for North Creek (most of...

The list off those uniquely Gore-y trails is long - the entire North Side, Quicksilver, Dark Side, Chatiemac. I wish I had skied Twister when it was a narrow diamond. Living close to and skiing at Jiminy a fair amount for many years, I’ve observed the antithesis of natural trail building...

It’s not all about you. the new lodge is for more than alpine skiing. With the realities of winter in the new millennium, the lack of natural snow has made Mt. Van Hoevenberg and Gore, with their snowmaking on Nordic trails, the venues for 90% of the Nordic racing in eastern NY. MVH got an...

Gore announced naming them Larry, Moe and Curly, then went radio silent. Maybe got a letter from the Fine family attorney? Anyway, now known, accord to the signage, as Caution, Closed and Thin Cover.

Jeez, give ‘em a break, will ya? Whaddya want, eggs in yer beer? They just got two feet of snow. I was on the base cam and AEII started loading at exactly 830. They are filling chairs and even have a singles line. Jiminy and Bromley have yet to put a butt in a chair today. Of course they each...

https://forum.nyskiblog.com/quot-Betty-loved-this-trail-quot-any-info-td4058112.html Thank God/Buddha/Mohammed et al that that sign was saved! I assumed that it was ripped down and thrown out by the contractor cutting the trees and installing the new lift, since they obviously got no supervision...

You should have been here yesterday. Free beer tomorrow.

It was out-of-your-mind good today. Windy early but it died down mid morning, absolute bluebird day. Anything facing north which hasn‘t gotten much sun was best, from Barkeater to Tahawus to Powder Pass to everything on the Dark Side. Got to Topridge a bit too late, the soft snow just starting...

They’re better than it looks.

Don’t even think that, let alone put it in writing.