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I have to bump this because today we lit up the new Oak Grove halfpipe, it should be opened at the latest by next weekend and the Rhodo is comming very shortly after :rock :rock :rock

Where is Papasteeze on this thread complaining about how JFBB hasn't been making snow at every possible opportunity because unless a mountain is 100% open with every park, trail and feature there is no excuse for this!!?

Clan member or jib the staircase? lol

I believe its for all camelback seasons pass holders. I forget the exact discount but its pretty signifigant for lift tickets and their base area lodging.

Jay Peak is an amazing mountain well worth the trip although I would hold out until more terrain is open VT is struggeling with this weather just like us.

I can almost guarentee that marjis wont be open this sunday being that this weekend we will loose temps during the day most likly due to the rain/humidty possibly next weekend though.

We will be starting on the stevenson side next week and we're making a run at marjis starting tonight.

I'm not sure our exact order on trails, this is my first season making snow. I do know that if temps hold for 24/7 snow making we can have the whole mountain ready to go in 2-3 weeks.

We made snow all day today non stop!!!! Things are looking much better. The reason why we only make on 5 trails at a time is because air compressors and water pumps only can put out so much to the mountain and the amount of guns it takes to light 5 trails is pretty much the capacity but it depends on the gun count and size of the trails.

How did the jam go?

Awesome video great filming. Nothing off the jump though?

I seen in another post someone mentioned that the jibs were closed today. Anyone know if any will be open tomarrow at either JF or BB?

Keep your eyes open tonight Papasteeze camelback will be making snow for every minitue of the 6 hours of temps we get tonight.

Blue has more snow to push around, more trails open and a deeper base? I'm just taking guesses.

There were plans to expand past the stevensen not sure what happened. I'm sure we'll hear about trail expansion after the hotel is up and running.

I was refering to doing great in the idea of turning a profit. I'm sorry you had such a shitty experience.

I'm not sure which time your refering to camelback closing due to freezing rain but when I was a lift operator I showed up on one of those nights although I believe it was 2 seasons ago. The mountain was insanly sketchy I had to sit at the top of the meadows lift and watch the chairs spin so the cable would not freeze and derail upon starting the next day. It was incredibly dangerous all I could hear was the cracking of tree limbs falling all over the woods and trails due to the thick ice that encased them, you could not even walk on a trail if you fell there would be no getting up you would slide to the bottom on your back if you didn't smack a tree on your way down first. I watched 2 snowmobiles flip that night, it would have been a death trap if we opened to the public. Every mountain is struggling to stay open at this point in this season, the weather says it all. We've had some bare spots showing sunday and with a full night of constant down pour I'm sure those bare spots got a bit worse as well as new ones forming. It wasn't simply raining a little this morning making them deicid to not open this is a different situation. Mountain Creek closed, Beer Creek closed awhile ago, Blue is closing early. No one rain storm does not wipe out all the snow but it puts a nasty dent on the little snow the mountains have considering the weather. I think this weather is making us snow freaks all go a little crazy. I'm sorry but the current owner is doing great you should have seen how ridiculasly packed our parking lots were this holiday week even though I personally prefer the mountain not being so crowded for the times I get to go ride myself. Like Luke said and I totally agree a ski resort is a business and if it can't make a profit it's not going to run. What business wants to loose money? If a business continually looses money it wont exists anymore.

Oh so correct. In fact there were a couple days that we had to turn down customers and stop selling tickets because the mountain was so full. Papasteeze snow making is a 24 hour operation. Our day shift works from 8am-8pm with the exception that we wont be able to make snow due to weather and our night shift works from 8pm-8am. If night shift comes in and we don't get temps to make snow until 2am guess what, night shift stays and moves guns around and other misc work until 2am and than we fire up.

You my friend are a genious I don't see why other people don't understand this concept lol.

I don't know. I'm dissapointed myself I could go up to CB for a few runs since I have the day off but I totally understand them for choosing not to open today.

You can't see many ground guns from northridge unless they are shooting up. We are trying to make snotters. We don't run the large tower guns, HKD's, Vikings, etc etc that you would normally see from Northridge its to warm. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

I can't believe this weather. weather.com and accuweather.com's 10 and 15 day extended forecast show nothing good at all up to Jan 15th. Some nights of marginal snow making temperatures at night and everyother day far to warm. Will it ever get cold before spring?

People can ski around bare spots but opening would only result in those people complaining about how shitty the conditions were and regretting spending their money many of which would cry bitch and moan about refunds. Yes I do agree though it does totally suck for the employees but I'm sure most of them are hung over as hell anyway and greatful for new years day off lol.

Yes CB loves to fuck over their passholders. It has nothing to do with 6 hours of rain and barespots everywhere. Its just because we like to spite our loyal customers.