Recent content by Chromer

You misspelled "tourists." The hairpin is a 40mph corner going east, and a 45 mph corner going west. When wet. Everything else is fine at 65+.

SR has (moderately steep) groomers, and long groomers, but not really any long steep groomers. Hop the border and spend a day at Orford? A high speed run down Maxi on the front face under the gondola can be one heck of a rush. It's worth a day (if they get some more snow...) Easy to get to...

Sharpen your edges. They claim about 6" this week, but it's just frost on porcelain. The damage from the Christmas rainstorm is still right on the surface. Trails that have received snowmaking since then are skiable, but are still pretty damned firm. Woods have a brutal crust - don't bother...

IIRC, Le Massif receives something around 150-200% of what Ste. Anne receives. That said, I always seem to hit it after a thaw-freeze cycle. Then again, I seem to hit everywhere just after a thaw-freeze, no matter where I go. Hell, I've even been to Edouard just after a rain storm. In...

Had no idea they were closed. Any idea how Glen feels about hikers? Thanks for the tip on Shefford, I think I'll have to give them a try. I'd never heard of them before, but it sounds like my kind of place!

Anyone been to Mt. Glen recently? I'd appreciate any info on the place. I'm going to be spending 3 days in the townships in a week, and while I like Orford and Sutton a lot, I'd like to try a new hill... My french isn't good enough to follow zoneski discussions, unfortunately...

Sugarloaf has contracted with him this year too. So far he's been 0 for 2 on his storm forecasts. 14 inches forecast last week was about 8. 5 inches forecast for Thursday night was a dusting.

Not a bad Turkey day. I ran into snow somewhere around North Anson at about 9. Got onto the hill by 10 and the top half of the mountain was missing in the snow... Weather was snow, cold and windy. Manmade on Sluice was scratchy with the rain-affected snow being exposed. Ditto Spillway...

According to the report at http://www.basinski.com , they have been busy grooming terrain into an intermediate-friendly product for a rumored Friday opening. (I can hear Ranger Renson screaming from here.)

'Strewth mate! Ever seen a bunch of sharks corralling fish into a bait ball? It's going to look just like that, with the patrol as the sharks, and any little skiers trying to break out of the mass getting eaten... Can hardly blame them though (the skiers, that is). I wonder if Wildcat will...

This kind of reminds me of December 2003 when Sugarloaf got about an 18" storm, and then a few days later got their 52" storm. Now the deal there was that there was a monsoon of a rain storm a few days after that took everything to bare ground (yes, 60" of snow GONE overnight!), and we ended up...

Bet they're burning up the phones trying to round up enough bodies to pull it off. Ticket office, food services, patrol, mechanics, lifties, grooming, tower pads, bamboo, ropes, more bamboo, more bamboo, more bamboo... Opening is a lot of work.

Date/location/price have been changed: Wednesday October 19 Location: Bangor, ME Venue: United Technology Center, Egers Auditorium, 200 Hogan Rd. in Bangor Time: doors open at 6:30pm, show starts at 7:00 Details: $5 at the door (to reserve a ticket call Alpenglow at 1-207-866-7562), $1 raffle...

It'll still let you add a bronze pass to your shopping cart though...

At least, the latest model runs seem to support the idea... Cold air floods into the area Sunday afternoon, could hang around until Wednesday. St. Saveur? Bretton Woods? Someone will likely run the guns for a few hours to get a photo-op...