powderfreak

Probably 1 person who lives up near you has it and it trips their percentage trigger, lol. I think it’s worse in low population areas because one family gets it and that county is triggered as a percent of population.

The ski resorts won’t pull your pass, they are just a middleman for the gov’t at this point. Like the lodging properties, they just want you to sign or check the box and take on the liability. It’s essentially like a COVID waiver in addition to your assumption of risk waiver everyone signs when they get a pass.

Yeah I guess I look at it as the leaf peppers had to stay somewhere and sign it when they checked in. Air B’nB operators were supposed to get and retain the records (I have no idea if they did). They had their information taken by the restaurant to eat in it... yes if they daytripped and just went hiking on the mountain then they wouldn’t have given information to anyone, true. It was always pushed back on the consumer but I’m speaking strictly consumer behavior, I just personally don’t see it changing because of this continuation of the quarantine requirements. What I do think we see is a continuation of the people who want to be responsible/respectful and follow the guidelines get the short end of the stick because they are still less likely to come (same as summer)...but the people who just don’t care continue to come. Not passing any judgement, it’s just the rule follower loses in this situation, IMO, as they watch their neighbor go on their vacations without a care in the world. Like the ol’ “nice guy finishes last” saying, while the bad boy has all the fun and games. I’m still against it as I don’t see any evidence of tourism spreading COVID...but I do have to abide by the rules as set out.

Since April too, ha. I still think the crowds are coming, but maybe I’ll be proven wrong. I don’t know how I’d approach it if I still lived in Albany, NY... but I don’t see consumer behavior changing from what fall foliage and summer brought. Vermont apparently still did 80%< tourism business summer/fall while requiring 99% of the population to quarantine for 14-days.

Yeah low teens I bet. Fresh snow and clearing skies. Then we go 60F for Thur/Fri, ha. Gotta love the swings.

Yeah we’ll see how it shakes out, they are doing a reservation system here which makes the contact info easy...and just an additional check box for did you follow state guidelines. Done. Here’s your ticket. Folks are more likely to check yes too when they aren’t standing in front of a human, check the box on your phone when you purchase your ticket. I dunno, I guess my general feeling is it’ll be more of the same from summer and fall. But who knows. I just know that I’m understaffing vs a normal year so if the crowds come it may not be a fun winter in that sense.

Please at least make it a recent shot of my head and not 17 year old PF! You’ve got access to my FB lol.

Yeah we’ll see. I still think you’re more likely to see photos of huge lines and crowds waiting to get on lifts, waiting to enter a lodge to use the rest room, waiting to enter the rental shops, retail outlets, etc.... vs seeing tumbleweeds rolling through ski area bases with no visitors. Our concern is the lines and the optics that creates as they go viral and lead to this “it’s unsafe, too many people!” type attitude.

Bingo. You ride a lift with who you show up with. Lift capacity will likely be 50% of normal, just like what led to mile long lines at summer gondola operations. So here’s the thing, the resorts are not set up to operate at 100% this season. Like this summer they were set up to accommodate like 60% of normal visitors but 80-100% came and it was a poor experience. The places were overrun, long lines, traffic, etc. Its the same this winter, they are planning for reduced visitors so if the full boat of visitors show up it’s going to be like getting caught with your pants down. Lift lines have been massive everywhere that’s started skiing or even tried it last summer. The resorts in the Alps opened for two days before the optics of massive lines were so bad the gov’t forced them to close. I still think the resorts are being set up to handle only limited amounts of skiers and the fear is still that *too many* show up and they aren’t prepared to manage that crowd.

That’s a nightly dream. But I know Kev doesn’t ski.

Just wait till people see the photos of lift lines this winter... they’ll want no part of that. That place that opened in Quebec was only local pass holders and the liftline was 30-40 minutes for a 3-min ride.

I’m looking forward to shorts again to be honest lol. 60F will feel like summer again.

You don’t ski do you? Lol. Half the skiers would be fine if the lifts didn’t run. The mountain was tracked out by 8am this morning.

Hasn’t stopped anyone yet. It’s the same thing all those fall foliage tourists signed when they checked into hotels all summer. I heard the state did >80% normal summer/fall tourism with all the “restrictions” so we’ll see what winter brings. There’s really nothing “new.” Getting crazy though. Mass has COVID curfews (better be home by 10pm), NY requires a test travelers, gonna shut ‘er down again. The restrictions are coming back it seems.

Coming down to vote in town, I am pretty impressed at how well we did down low in this event. Looks like a widespread 7-10” type deal driving down the road. Normally we don’t pull 0.70” water out of upslope snow events but it was pretty well modeled that the east slope looked best with the high Froude numbers. It seemed really fluffy but the water is decent and it’s not evaporating like 30:1 fluff, ha. Its winter right now for sure. Great first event to get the monkey off the back lol.

24 hour totals from 7am this morning. I think the storm totals might be an inch or so higher in some spots from yesterday prior to 7am. Fits with a band here on the east slope of the crest with 8-10".

Yup it’s crazy!

Fun times.

To me it always reminded me of ski vacations out west at Whistler and places that have these massive heated plazas... so it’s a good memory and makes it feel like a ski resort. If I had my way they would stay off while a storm hits and then turn them on to melt it instead of plowing lol. Leaves very clear demarcations of “no snow” to “snow” with no brown snowbanks like JSpin said. Anyway, it’s snowing again pretty steadily. Wind is nuts though, lots of blowing and drifting.

Looks like we will be in shorts by Thurs/Friday lol... Highs around 60 will feel like summer after this. EURO has a low of like 10F tonight and then it gets mild.

The snow cam isn't live yet to public but this is pretty funny. Last numbers I could see were around 10" before it just became a complete snow mushroom.

From NNE thread but now that the system is done... 8.5” on the ground. I had 4” first and then my car had another 6” this morning. Around 10” total probably. It'll be just a dream by the end of the week. Cars are round 2 accumulation, hedgerow sporting event total.

The heated walkways are fired up in some sections again... I’m with Will on hating it. But creates some funny scenes like this. The warm ground argument works when the pavers are heated lol. Deep winter in other areas.

Yeah that’s a good upslope storm for 750ft for sure. Nice to start with ~10” total between the two systems. This is one of those ones where I’m torn... 10” from the break and measuring it with two different events... or just the 8.5” that’s on the ground at the end.

Yeah we did well for sure. Driving around this was a legit little storm. Looks to be 12” or a bit more at 1500ft on the ground. Plows definitely caught off-guard for some reason. Every lot in town has 8” ruts in it lol.