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12-09-2019, 09:06 PM #626
vail is NOT opening the wood slowly. it simply isn't happening. comparing what happens there to what happens at rose is redonk. rose is next to a major market with plenty of people willing to drive there to ski a green run. rose can use cheap electricity to make snow. kirkwood isn't and can't. the backside will open by mid month just like it always does. for now they have 6 and 10 completely open. Pretty much the best gig going.
although
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12-09-2019, 09:08 PM #627
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12-09-2019, 09:35 PM #628
My theory is that Vail can hire better data scientists than Rose. Those scientists analyzed all that wonderful data that Vail collects and determined that putting money into opening Kirkwood early doesn’t make financial sense. I would bet that if Rose had the same quality of data and data scientists they would come to the same conclusion about Mt. Rose, especially with the Reno area growing so fast and Mt. Rose having the highest base elevation in Tahoe.
Oh and an impressive run under the gondy. While it was thin at the bottom there was more snow than I thought. Gotta get out there but on travel...
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12-09-2019, 09:36 PM #629
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Mt Rose snow scientists are second to none
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12-09-2019, 09:51 PM #630
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12-09-2019, 10:26 PM #631
Damn straight! Rose hires snow scientists and Vail hires data scientists. Unlike Vail, I wouldn’t be surprised if Mt. Rose couldn’t tell you how much vert you did in a day or how many lifts you rode. And that’s just the data that Vail collects that they choose to share with their customers...
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12-09-2019, 10:34 PM #632Registered User
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12-09-2019, 11:05 PM #633
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12-10-2019, 07:11 AM #634
I hate Vail as much as the next guy, but you need to let it go. Seems pretty obvious they've done a solid job with Kirkwood so far this season (if you want to bitch about early closures we are all with you). And you can't compare opening that mountain to Mt. Rose - the terrain is a hell of a lot more complex and there's simply more to manage and prepare.
Also: don't confuse / conflate the assholes in Broomfield with the people actually doing their jobs at the resort.
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12-10-2019, 10:18 AM #635
^^^^^This. KW has opened this season as well as it has in the last 18 years. It snowed, they opened. 6 opened a few days later. Then 10 and 7. Fucking awesome. Backside is cool and all, but there are plenty of winter days I never even bother leaving 6,7,10. You don’t need it. Hey will
Probably have it opened for this weekend. On schedule. Boom.
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12-10-2019, 10:29 AM #636
the best part about the backside is the 45 minute lift line and no cell service to warn anybody away
BACKSIDE'S OPEN!!
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12-10-2019, 11:45 AM #637
KT opens tomorrow (upper portion looked caked) but decent slide debris all the way down Chute 75.
Took the Tram and Silverado down low needs more snow to get that cat track put in down to the lift but the upper portion looked dreamy.
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12-10-2019, 11:56 AM #638
it's interesting that SAC is calling the buried SH an "unusual storm slab." I hope peeps are reading the text of the report. hopefully the lingering instability stops lingering soon; however, these little storms this week may not be that great as resolving the current SH problems....
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12-10-2019, 12:16 PM #639
it's unusual because we don't usually deal with buried surface hoar 'round these parts. I think it's more of a problem up north since they stayed a little colder with the last storm whereas it got rained on more down here (and the sac guys haven't been finding it). The current surface hoar forming should get eaten by the rains come friday if the high temps and humidity haven't from thursday.
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12-10-2019, 12:49 PM #640
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12-10-2019, 01:04 PM #641
I agree, anything tallac and north is essentially north lake/truckee.
I would have thought that they'd be calling it a PWL, but maybe it requires more time and reactivity to be considered "persistent."
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12-10-2019, 01:27 PM #642
geographically, you don't even get Homewood, but we let you have it anyway.
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12-10-2019, 03:32 PM #643Banned
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KT laps today made a great start to the season.
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12-10-2019, 03:32 PM #644Registered User
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12-10-2019, 03:45 PM #645
Dude, take it easy. It was a joke. I was referencing Vail and the folks at Broomfield not Kirkwood. No doubt Kirkwood has some good snow scientists but sans Vail, I doubt they would have access to good data scientists. Difference is that data scientists deal with maximizing profits not improving skiing. That was the point that I was trying to make.
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12-10-2019, 04:04 PM #646
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I don’t think I have. If you read my previous posts they complain about Vail (read Broomfield) rather than Kirkwood. Even on the the Kirkwood snow scientists topic, I referenced Vail rather than Kirkwood.
But just in case it wasn’t clear from my previous threads, my issue is with management at Broomfield Vail, not the Kirkwood or Heavenly employees. Each of my complaints are things that Kirkwood or Heavenly employees don’t have much control over. Last time I checked a snow scientist at Kirkwood does not determine Kirkwood’s operations budget or how long a Kirkwood season lasts. Not much that Heavenly employees can do if Vail decides to slash its budget so much that they have to cancel shuttles. And the only data scientists I have seen at Kirkwood have been clients with either a lift ticket or a season pass.
If you don’t notice Vail’s corporate cuts to Tahoe resorts over the last 5 years, more power to you. I could be wrong but my experience at Vail resorts has steadily gone down and I am pissed because I actually enjoy skiing Heavenly and Kirkwood but I can’t justify buying a pass with the crappier service. Your may feel differently and that’s fine but that does not mean that I am not entitled to my opinion.
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12-10-2019, 04:25 PM #647
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12-10-2019, 05:54 PM #648
patrol staff availability in the spring could affect operations.... some patrollers guide in the spring before their summer jobs start.
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12-10-2019, 05:57 PM #649
nothing i say should ever be taken as evidence of anything other than the fact that i have a keyboard
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12-10-2019, 06:05 PM #650
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