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Well with all the shitty news tonight of the opening day pushback to Saturday and the apparent mid week closing. I present some good news in that at least they dont have to shut down at all during daylight hours today.

Bah, hate midweek closures.

Looks like they changed it to Saturday without a social media post. Im guessing because the rain in the forecast for Friday.

Fan guns can run at slightly more marginal temps than the tower. The rest should light up shortly. Glad to see theyre working on Vista, they have a lot of hours starting tonight into Thursday morning. Ski ya'll Friday!!

Still waiting on your season opening day at Big Snow TR. 🙃

Hate that damn place. Been stuck here for the past 15 hours on a double shift

Im not certain as I couldnt see well but they clearly lifted a large plate with the escavator before continuing to dig. Makes me think there's a valving box there.

Probably. My best guess at this point would be it was a isolation valve not holding thst they temp capped. Which would potentially mean temporarily no water supply that direction until valve replaced. Or possibly just reduced openining plan since they lost 12+ hours to ensure they open on the 1st.

Ski you Friday

Me too, some pics and stuff of the snow would be pretty cool to see.

One thing for sure is, Vista was lit last night before they ran into issues. Maybe because they lost so much time last nigh they are focusing on only opening with the quad? The anticipation is killing me either way! 🫠

@saltyant update your stats and we're still waiting on the trip report.

Possibly waiting for Slopeside to close for the night? The waterline issue was right at the point of Vista and Windowmaker possibly a valve they temped and dont have waterflow there right now? We sha'll see shortly! Lower Mainstreet stacking up and the puddle at the bottom is stsrting to freeze, just seen a UTV drive through its all slush.

I agree, theyre trying to make up for some lost time firing up a little early with more marginal conditions. If the current forecast for the week holds I'm also confident they will open Fri or Sat as opposed to being unreasonably optimistic last week.

They're lighting up already! Bless be the low humidity!

Are you there now? We better get a trip report!

Considering the tubing hill shut down with everything else visible on the cams, I would assume not. I do not know for a fact though. Around 7 or 8pm they had what looked like nearly the entire mountain lit and then suddenly everything appear off until the repairs finished very early morning.

I think they will prob keep it this way. It's been kind of this eay as long as I can remember with CBK doing the alien pass day at the very end most of the time.

That is def a lie. Just look at the web cams compared to Shawnee, CBK, Elk and Montage. I also watched the cams from 7pm - 2am. However, they will have several more large windows like this in the forecast before Friday so I believe it's still happenin.

Also work in a field where underground water line breaks are a common thing at the start and end of winter.

No, used to make snow and the job was in sight of the webcam. Easy to tell what went wrong and what they were doing. If it were an air line they could have still run the fan guns. Total shutdown, emergency through night repair had to be a main water line.

They were going full force for only about an hour last evening. Then they had to do a total shutdown because a main broke at the burma/widowmaker intersection. They repaired it through the night digging and welding and fired back up whenever GSS noticed this morning. Should be all systems go from tonight on out barring anymore big problems.

Nailed it Blue if your primary care is terrain. CBK King if you want full resort experience.