DiMe
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klan member?
Clan member or jib the staircase? lol
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That sounds cool how much is the discount? and is it limited to just Camelback or all season passes?
Never been to Jay but I hear its worth it.
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.
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I know that CB passes can be used at jay peak for a discount. Has anyone done this? Was it a hassle? Is jay worth drive? Yeah - I'm thinking of going..
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.
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Do you expect to have Marjie's open by Sunday? I'm not getting my hopes up, but that would be awesome (I go back to school Monday
).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.
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No. They have been blowing on what they had open previously. They haven't even started blowing on any of the blacks yet. We might see them start working on some of the middle trials but I wouldn't expect them to start on trails that run out into the Stevenson until next week at least.
I wouldn't be surprised if they are 100% in 2-2.5 weeks, but please keep the false information to yourself.
We will be starting on the stevenson side next week and we're making a run at marjis starting tonight.
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Any idea how long till start and finish on rhodo if temps hold?
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.
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That's good to see.
This is a real question, I am not complaining, why are they only blowing 5 trails? Is this everything they have concentrated on 5 trails so that they can make sure they open on Thursday, or is this all the snowmaking they can run at once?
Out of interest, if there are snowmakers from CB on here "DiMe.."? What's the restriction on snowmaking? Obviously it's not guns so it's either water or power, I assume it's electricity generation?
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.
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How did the jam go?
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Awesome video great filming. Nothing off the jump though?
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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?
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Keep your eyes open tonight Papasteeze camelback will be making snow for every minitue of the 6 hours of temps we get tonight.
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You guys can say all you want, but explain to me why Blue was open today and Camelback wasn't? Blue is a buisness, a ski business, and they're open for skiing.
Blue has more snow to push around, more trails open and a deeper base? I'm just taking guesses.
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camelback won't change as long as they have the noob traffic they do. They have a great business model. Nothing will change for true snow lover, face it we are high maintenance and low margin.
They are expanding facilities again. We need to look into whether there are plans for trail expansion.
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.
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He is? Like when the lifties are so untrained that they don't catch the non-detachable chairs? Or when the lifties are so untrained that they stand around holding shovels while the landing area of the lift has rocks showing and no place to avoid them? Like when the kids making pizza at the end of the night fill your request for a plain slice by removing the pepperoni after it's been cooked on? Or when the people in skier services call you a liar, then promote themselves when you ask to speak to a manager?
It begins at the top, bro...and by that standard, the owner has a lot of work to do.
I was refering to doing great in the idea of turning a profit. I'm sorry you had such a shitty experience.
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So should ski areas close everytime it rains? We had this discussion last year when Camelback closed due to freezing rain. If you go to a movie theater and you're the only one in the theater should they send you home? If you go to the grocery store late at night and it's just you should they shut down? What if mail carriers stopped delivering on rainy days? As a commitment to skiers and riders ski areas should remain open even if it's raining and conditions are less than ideal..and some of the nubs on here think that one rain storm wipes out all the snow...that's totally not the case. Camelback not being open today is another reason why I will continue to bad-mouth Camelback every chance I get and hopefully the current owners will be forced to sell the mountain to somebody who cares about its season passholders.
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.
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There have been plenty of ticket sales this past week. Christmas week is one of the big money-making weeks of the season. Also, MLK weekend is coming up soon.
The pattern for the past week has been to make snow on all of the trails that we are currently skiing at night. During mountain operating hours, they have been making on Marjies, Sullivans, John Baily, and Lower Cleo/Home Again. In highly marginal conditions, I'm pretty sure that is all they can do. Even the rented suplementary compressors are running in the morning.
If you did a little investigative work on my user name, you would realize why I am not the one being mislead. I believe you are misleading yourself.
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.
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The weather sucks. I'm suprised they haven't closed before this. They make snow every chance they get and than bam, weather comes along and melts it all away with rain. It's not anyone's fault. Besides, how many people do you think would actually show up and pay for tickets today? Definitelly not enough to turn profit and unfortunately CB is a business and a business needs to make money, period. That's the only reason for owning a business, to make money. I own a season pass and trust me it annoys the hell outta me when I can't ride but on the other hand you also have to understand why they chose to close.
You my friend are a genious
I don't see why other people don't understand this concept lol.
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I guess you don't understand how things work, well then again, either does Camelback. Skiing is 100% based on weather conditions, and well, it's bad weather, so chances are the skiing isn't going to be so great either. So I don't know what is going through anyones mind when they get to a mountain after a month of warm temps and rain and think conditions would be good. That's just absurd. It'd be one thing if there were snowmaking temperatures today, but there aren't. There is snow on the trails, which means Blue is open, and so should Camelback. There is no excuse.
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.
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Made up information? I am not seeing things nor are my neighbors.. closing and not having to pay staff is not cost effective when there aren't any ticket sales?
.......... then again love is blind isn't it... I skied at CB in the morning and then BB well into several nights where BB was blowing and CB was not when we got home. The thermometer temp never changed on my truck and on one night it was one dgree lower ...
They were only only blowing margies.. ok may some of the hybrid names that occur on the same trail. they other guns were on those small bottom trails that are part of the main trails from the summit.
I have a houuse with a clear view of all the slopes right in my bedroom, others here at northridge know the same thing as I do. so unless you can see what I and others saw don't believe what CB is telling you. they are misleading you.
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.
It is one thing to make comments based on the facts, but we see time and time again that Papasteeze bases his arguments on made-up information. I hope that no one takes his comments seriously. CB has been making snow every chance they get to the point that they shut the guns off at the last possible second. There have even been a few nights where they plan to make snow and the snowmaking crew is in all night, but it doesn't get cold enough to blow. There have even been a few nights where they started up the guns for only a few hrs until the sun started to come up. If you think they aren't making as much as possible to save money, you're crazy. They need as much snow as possible just to stay open and maintain their trail count. Having to close the mountain for lack of snow would cost a lot more than the cost to make marginal snow. In addition, the weather patterns lately have been creating temperature inversions. Therefore, some nights Blue (at a lower elevation) can have better snowmaking temperatures while CB is too warm. Also, CB did make snow on 13 trails on Sat night/Sun morn. Sure they didn't make on all of the trails simultaneously, but they made a decent amount of progress. It wasn't a lie as Papasteeze claims.Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
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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?
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Can't people ski around the bare spots? 6 hours of rain..bahhhh..it's also bad for the employees..at Blue the liftees and lodge personell are getting paid..at Camelback they're not..
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.
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I must be psychic because after my 2 hour session at Blue..I was telling a guy in the parking lot that Camelback would probably be closed today because they don't care about season passholders...Is Camelback going to be closed later on when it clears up? Haha..
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.
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I have been up here at Northridge watchingall week plus, it's not rocket science. to have frost ( high Humidity) on the ground but the ground is not frozen compared to nights where the ground was frozen but no frost and you guys didn't blow.. Other mountains blew those nights..
I am at the same elevation and I also watch what the other hills are doing and you guys did not blow every oppoptunity that you could including christian holidays.
If it christmas was really that important to CB then they would not have been open on christmas day. ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I get it. since they attract such a (asssuming) non -christian clientel, then it was profitable for them to open on christmas.
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Just so everyone knows who reads this. Camelback did not blow snow on nights that they could have the last week. THey blew last night in super marginal temps.
Where do you get this information lol? We're making snow every chance we get with the exception of christmas. I'm sorry if our guys had off for the holiday to spent some time with their children and families one day of marginal temps lol.
We're in every way possible trying to make as much snow as possible. We've even been letting the guns the night shift lit run until almost 10pm until we absolutly have to shut them down because of humidity and or temps.
I deicided to stay with the snow making team rather than go back to lifts and theres nothing more we want to do than make snow.
11 degrees and no snow making
in Jack Frost & Big Boulder
Posted · Edited by DiMeThIcOnE
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!!?
