NE Roll Call 18/19

[Brock Landers]

I feel like it’s a north wind approx 148% of the time at cannon and that front face is usually protected and should be ok?

Everyone that skis there is on some sort of race tune anyway

[Vt-Freeheel]

Cash registers be ringing and shit!!!

the-backcountry-payoff

[biggins]

^^^Cue circular "discussion" of this issue in 3... 2... 1... (ending only once it snows again).

But hey, Southridge chair! Amiright?

[Vt-Freeheel]

49` and climbing on strong south winds bob with some light rain. That ice crust will be gone in a few hours.

Ski it if you can at the bush

[t-the-east]

^wow

[Vt-Freeheel]

To be honest it is the south facing Village Run trail serving the condos, but is listed as open for trail count



Did I mention windy?

Snow Report
*Lifts on windhold - Green Mountain Express Quad, North Ridge Express Quad, North Lynx Triple, Summit Quad, Inverness Quad, Sunshine Quad, Heaves Gate Triple*

Status update for Fri, Feb 8

7:40 AM

[jhyatt]

Friggin wicked!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=...QIJgWEYTY#menu

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[akokskis]

^ he is da best

[JaBr]

Friggin wicked!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=...QIJgWEYTY#menu

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'If Maine was a person' (in the comments) - LOL!

[Benny Profane]

Don't fear, March will be excellent, because I'll be elsewhere. Send me a case.

[JerseyDave]

Cash registers be ringing and shit!!!

the-backcountry-payoff

According to that piece of marketing material each visitor to the McGlades dropped 650 bucks a visit. LOL. Cheap-skates visiting Dutch Hill dropped 583 dollars a visit. Amazing.

[danmelon]

Don't fear, March will be excellent, because I'll be elsewhere. Send me a case.

Forget March, I'm back in DC for work mid next week, then taking little one to Disney the week after. Will surely dump epic-ly mid Feb. You're welcome.

[Vt-Freeheel]

Thought you would like that. I drove by a month ago and spent $37.

[jhyatt]

Hey on Wednesday we saw this noteworthy dude at Cannon and I was wondering if anyone else has spotted him around. He was wearing a full green camo military outfit complete with helmet with tinted eye protection like a helicopter pilot or ground crew. Not camo ski gear, but a real military setup with the velcro patches, etc. He had the suspender bandolier utility belt thing, but it was outfitted with loud speakers and he was blasting techno music. The dude was just bopping around totally stoked. I am going to assume that is what he has for cold weather gear with him and just went for it.
There are a lot of kooks at Cannon on $25 Wednesdays, but this was a glitch in the matrix.
Snowboarding, of course.

Also: Cannon is free this Sunday for military with ID.
https://www.cannonmt.com/events/2019...preciation-day

[anotherVTskibum]

Cash registers be ringing and shit!!!

the-backcountry-payoff

Might be tough finding Brandon Gap from "Route 53", though.

[Boreas]

According to that piece of marketing material each visitor to the McGlades dropped 650 bucks a visit. LOL. Cheap-skates visiting Dutch Hill dropped 583 dollars a visit. Amazing.

Even if you wanted to, I don’t believe there’s a spot between Dutch Hill and Mass to spend $583.

[therudeness]

Mont Royal was double black with 45 underfooot... will be triple once it sets up tonight.

[danmelon]

Mont Royal was double black with 45 underfooot... will be triple once it sets up tonight.

yikes! i commend your bravery sir.

[Greenstateofmind]

Forget March, I'm back in DC for work mid next week, then taking little one to Disney the week after. Will surely dump epic-ly mid Feb. You're welcome.

Flying mid-week next week could be tough. Next week's weather maps at 4 days are pretty juiced

[neufox47]

Looking at my Southwest points.......

Tahoe is going off. I’d highly recommend coming out, except get ready to fight the repressive crowds. I’d offer to show folks around but I’m on the road the rest of Feb 🥵🥵

[Generalstark]

According to that piece of marketing material each visitor to the McGlades dropped 650 bucks a visit. LOL. Cheap-skates visiting Dutch Hill dropped 583 dollars a visit. Amazing.

You’re assuming that each visitor only went to the McGlades once. The case mentioned in the article suggests that visitors are making more than one trip per season.



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[robrox]

Wednesday is looking good in The Zone. Posse forming.

[danmelon]

Flying mid-week next week could be tough. Next week's weather maps at 4 days are pretty juiced

Yep perfect time for a mega snow storm, while I have to fly for work. Why travel is scheduled for this time of year baffles me.

[Vt-Freeheel]

You’re assuming that each visitor only went to the McGlades once. The case mentioned in the article suggests that visitors are making more than one trip per season.

I have been trying to find a link to the actual full survey as I find the "facts" presented utter bullshit. So far I have had no luck. I did find they put a series of counter out to track visits, so the number presented is an approximate guess of total visits. There is no way to know if one person passed by a counter(s) several times. Without a 24/7 manned service desk there is no way to know how many of the visits were by unique visitors vs repeat skiers.

Found this amusing graphic on the SE Group website.

$1168.42 per visitor?????


Fd/snacks $17982 $100 per person?
Ent/fees $23976 $140
Trans. $29970 $175
Rest/bars $33966 $197
Lodging $35964 $210
Gear/sov/rt$59940 $350

FFS did they all get limo rides and gourmet mountain top lunches served in a portable yurt that is set up and broken down daily? With a fresh assortment of microbrews and rare tea with live music?

It does say "Economic impact of a powder day", not a week, month or season of BC skiing.

I really don't know how any honest group could present something like this without some sort of facts to back it up

I will agree that there is money being spent and some of it locally. Perhaps for snacks or maybe a room. Gas is so overpriced in Rochester I never buy it there. I have also read quite a number of posts on the internet and find that the "earn your turns" group is notoriously tight with their money, often griping that a resort wants more than $2-30 for a season skinning pass, as they don't use the lifts.
The actual dollar figure is much less and until an honest study is done this shit will continue to be presented as fact.

[Greenstateofmind]

That's three busy-ass employees right there and Benny must've bought a condo. A quick letter to the regional US Forester might get an explanation of the methodology for sampling and surveying. Either that or you prompt him/her to pull the US Forestry Trademark off that train wreck.

Edit: The more I look at it though, the "gear" probably skews that dramatically. How many gear shops are there really and how many touring setups are they selling on one powder day? Zero, because nobody headed here to ski a powder day is going to spend half the day getting fitted, are they?

Triple Dip: "It does say "Economic impact of a powder day", not a week, month or season of BC skiing." The time frame would be the most helpful piece of additional info