ski14 Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 so when are any new trails opening? it seems unreal that its been so cold and nothing new has opened yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sno Mountain Skier Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 As i was driving up to the Shoppes yesterday, I saw four cats out on Upper Runaway and Upper Fastrack. So quite possibly they are open, and their website is still shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riderossi Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 upper fast track is open, upper runaway and lower fast track look good, should be open by tomorrow. If not, definitely Sunday. Kind of weird to have one part of each trail open, but they'll all be open soon enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santa Clauss Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 yea upper runaway has been open for a couple days but in most places its very narrow, plus its a hike to get over to it, not really worth it at this point, but they were blowing more last night and the temps were really cold so it should defiantly open the trail a little more, plus this snow we are getting during the day should give us some nice conditions. it looked like they did more tree removal on that trail, (I could be mistaken, due to the lack of snow but i'm pretty sure they did it this year) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 it looked like they did more tree removal on that trail, (I could be mistaken, due to the lack of snow but i'm pretty sure they did it this year) That's my biggest beef with Sno. They're getting carried away with tree removal. Skiing up top is already painful due to it being colder, but now there's almost NOTHING left to stop the wind. The ugly "bowl" area that used to be 2 well-separated trails (Switch/Spike) under the Iron Horse lift now only has exposed piping and power lines separating the two trails. Sno, if you do read this and take suggestions from here... please please do what Elk does and replant some ever-green trees so we can know what it's like skiing a trail again instead of a large chunk of exposed mountain-side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moe ghoul Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 I never skied Sno, but driving down the NE extension we saw it in the distance. I got the impression that the steeps are on the lower half of the mountain. I'll try and check it out for a PASR day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schif Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 I still can't imagine why they cut down the trees between spike and switch. Unless its so you can view the park from the lift. They left pipes and stumps all over thet area so its not even skiable! Just a big waste if you ask me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sno Mountain Skier Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 I still can't imagine why they cut down the trees between spike and switch. Unless its so you can view the park from the lift. They left pipes and stumps all over thet area so its not even skiable! Just a big waste if you ask me. They did it on the lower portion of Spike, so they could fit the super pipe in there. But, Im not sure why they did it the whole way up the trail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRacer Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 I got the impression that the steeps are on the lower half of the mountain. Yup. All of the steep stuff is at the bottom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stever2003 Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 Sno, if you do read this and take suggestions from here... please please do what Elk does and replant some ever-green trees so we can know what it's like skiing a trail again instead of a large chunk of exposed mountain-side. I'll second this. Elk is truly a beautiful place to ski. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santa Clauss Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 My idea is they cut down the trees because they probably planned on having the park that wide, even though the lift side of spike is riddled with tree stumps and rocks, doesn't mean they don't plan on cleaning it up (Some day) lets just say formally that "Sno mountain" is completely under construction, a ton of things are not finished yet. Today they were blowing tons of snow to mix with the fresh stuff were getting. i'll just do a TR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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