Ride Delaware ?

You must make bank if your dishing out $450 a week before gas, rent, and utilities... Tombstone Astley Bird!!!

Doug is always complaining about $, how can he possibly afford any herb? Must be why he only made it to JH once this year... Nah mean?

Was there some type of social event that led to this change? Or is that when you finally started post whoring?

Outside chance of snow showers Monday night with no accumulation? Please, nothing will happen...

Made up pipe dream... I don't see any decently reliable forecast showing any snow in the pokes... The low dips into West Virginia, doesn't spread east... No cold air will be in place...

Wild and Wonderful West Virginia... Band of 12"-18" from WV to NY... The winter that never was... It's going to knock down some serious trees a la the October storm...

The drive would be easy too... Storms like this one are elevation based upslope... I bet there hasn't even been a snowflake in Rutvegas...

I finished patrolling yesterday, and I decided to hit Loon today before they are done tomorrow, and it was raining pretty steadily at the base with a temperature of 38... When we got to the top of the gondola around 2,500 ft it was snowing and there was a dusting... At the peak 3,050 ft, it was snowing and there was about 2"... Very wet and sticky... Fun time though...

I'm going to have to +1 this one... If you've merged once between business hours without looking and got away with it, your luckier than you know...

Oh yes he did... It was a crafty response to be sure... I see what he did there...

Doug?

That's good to know... That being said, I guess they made a "business decision". They will be open early again next year no doubt...

Went out again today and rode switch. Another 2 inches of fresh added a nice coating. Took another 10 runs. No crowds. Doing it again tomorrow. Possibly at Loon, maybe SR... Snowmaking starting back up again tonight!!!

Poster for life playa!!!

You Southerners... With your bare mountains, green grass, and golf...

They would have had to use fan guns... All of their compressors are rented, and they shipped the last pair out nearly two weeks ago... SR is fortunate in that we own our compressors and they are permanently on site... We also have an unlimited use permit from the Sunday River for water supply... Therefore, if we have the budget and the snowmakers, we can light them up when need be... With all that being said, I came in to free ride again this morning around 10 am, and the guns were off. We also received 2 inches of snow overnight. That snow was wet, but not a super high density. The snow covered a bunch of hazards and I wiped out hard. Really banged up my arm on some rocks. That will be sore tomorrow. On the flip side, Meathead Films was filming and I got to ride the lift and take 3 runs with Radio Ron. That was fun. All in all, a good day. Hopefully the next couple days will be just as good...

I don't have to work the next four days, so I figured I would go out and free ride a bit to log my 100th day. That being said, I got some more pics of the snowmaking underway. There were very few people shredding today, so no action pics. I got to the mountain at 8:50 to 22 degree temps. I took my time booting up and got on the lift at 9:10. Guns were blazing and there was a significant difference from yesterday. With the limited terrain I decided to hit all the trails on spruce today, with the intention of hitting the trails on barker tomorrow. Everything below the South Ridge Quad had snowmaking. Some guns were wet, some were dry. The groomed snow was also soft. The snow above the Quad was very firm and borderline unedgable in some places. Wind was still blowing and made it quite chilly. No wind holds like yesterday. Pics: (the first one is the same shot as yesterday so that you can compare)

Over the past couple of seasons, closing day would have been this past weekend right? Are they starting that back up again this year?

That warm spell was brutal. It is super windy today, and a bunch is on wind hold, but the temps have dropped and snowmaking has come online in the South Ridge area... All fan guns or HKDs, no tripods... Some small accumulation already...

Thanks man... It's been awesome... It is kinda like cheating, but it's still been great... Hopefully there will be year #2...

I heard somebody say that after this weekend there would only be 8 resorts left open in the NE... Unfortunately, before the snowmaking, there will be some nair...

This is good news. As expected, they are going to concentrate on the high traffic areas with good base lodges. They did some great grooming when the temps dropped last night and it looks completely different out there... It's nice to see the growing coverage, even if it is from moving snow around...

I concur, but they were open when nobody else was...

And Monday/Tuesday its supposed to be back in the mid 30s... SR still says it will make snow, but I don't know how far it will get us, although it will be nice to see...

It's ugly all over... I've never seen trail counts or snowpack drop this quickly...