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I was in the neighborhood so I stopped at Blue today thinking I needed to pick up this years pass but turns out the old one auto updates. Was looking pretty green but lots of workers buzzing around getting things ready. The air tasted especially crisp and ready 😇

all those goobers gotta charge their teslas lol

Are those next years model? they look sweet.

They should slow those chargers down as well, i mean, EV's are cool, but no where near as cool as making snow. When they used to do rolling blackouts in the winter, that made no sense to me, at least for homes with electric heating. lets shut the power down for a little while, then turn it back on after a while just to have your power consumption go to like 100% to get your heat back?

i believe that Killington was interrupted by the power co. shortly after they fired up last week or whenever it was, so its not just limited to Blue. The Poconos is filled with homes that have that super efficient electric baseboard heat. What would be interesting to take note of is the next time Blue is shut down for grid issues, is to see if Cameltoe, and JFBB are affected by it. But, also, who knows if those get power from the same grid. Maybe its just Palmerton thats fucked up. Well, i mean fucked up power grid.

Yep, touring edition.

Seems to be a more recent thing (power companies shutting snowmaking down). Don't know if it's the grid, amount of people/development in the area, lack of electricity production, number of Teslas??

It's a great place if you like to hit park features. The lack of vert makes the normal downhill a bit boring but none the less it is prime snow conditions year round.

This is interesting. The few years I made snow at Camelback back in the early 2000s, I dont ever remember a power grid interuption. I wonder if the grid is weaker near Blue or this is a new thing with more homes using electric heating alternatives to oil and gas.

Yup, I believe shortly after they shut em down again. Indeed, it was a total downer, expecting huge amounts of snow only to see nada. Damn people turning up their thermostats to stay warm! Don't they know there are sliders starving in the East for man-made perder???

It happened twice no ? I remember the first time it was hyper cold for a couple days and I expected some whales but shit was still brown. Nothing major but temps are starting to improve a little in the forecast

They know what brings in the cashola...

And then another super cold shot came in, but the power company shut them down.

You can't hold out like that...what did you get ?????

Last year they got super lucky iirc it was a narrow window to get anything open and then it got super sketch before the slow addition of trails but I distinctly recall us mentioning had they not gone hard in that first shot it would have taken another couple weeks.

Pops and I went up last weekend and stashed stuff in the seasonal locker. Considering they blow snow on tubing about as early as anywhere, I'd say as long as that stage is still there on the cam they don't have any real thoughts about snowmaking. There's also still a disc golf hole on the middle of Vista 🤣