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wgo
December 30, 2020
Member since 02/10/2004 🔗
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Just wanted to call out the fact that many of our local resorts are doing a good job with webcam views that allow us to monitor liftlines. However, there are at least 2 resorts that appear to have changed the view so that you can no longer see the liftline:

1) Snowshoe Ballhooter cam - this is now angled up so that you can see the lower ballhooter slope but not the liftline

2) Wintergreen Blue Ridge Express cam - This used to move around, with one view showing the lines, but now appear to be in a fixed position showing Diamond slope (I have only checked this today, so I am not sure if it is temporary.

Is anyone aware of any other resorts that have changed webcam views?

marzNC - DCSki Supporter 
December 30, 2020
Member since 12/10/2008 🔗
3,311 posts

wgo wrote:

Just wanted to call out the fact that many of our local resorts are doing a good job with webcam views that allow us to monitor liftlines. However, there are at least 2 resorts that appear to have changed the view so that you can no longer see the liftline:

1) Snowshoe Ballhooter cam - this is now angled up so that you can see the lower ballhooter slope but not the liftline

2) Wintergreen Blue Ridge Express cam - This used to move around, with one view showing the lines, but now appear to be in a fixed position showing Diamond slope (I have only checked this today, so I am not sure if it is temporary.

Is anyone aware of any other resorts that have changed webcam views?

 Yep, happened for a couple of the NC ski resorts.  

dclivejazz
December 30, 2020
Member since 03/5/2017 🔗
57 posts
Liberty and Roundtop don't show them at all and Whitetail dropped the one that shows the resort from a distance and possibly a few more. 
Scott - DCSki Editor
December 30, 2020
Member since 10/10/1999 🔗
1,260 posts
Individual resort profiles on DCSki include a link to webcam pages that were active/working in the Fall when I was making updates (look for the Webcam link under the Key Statistics section of a profile), so if someone was energetic enough (sorry, not me :), they could go through that and get a good sense of which resorts have removed webcams, although it wouldn't show whether resorts had changed the camera angles.  And there's always a possibility cams are down due to technical issues.  But, even without the webcams, plenty of guests are posting photos from the slopes onto social media (for example, on the DCSki Facebook group), making it possible to get a sense of what crowds and conditions are like.  And now that it's easy to include photos on DCSki Forum posts, I encourage everyone to drop a shot in a quick update when they visit local resorts so we can see what conditions are like.
Blue Don 1982 - DCSki Supporter 
December 30, 2020
Member since 01/13/2008 🔗
1,587 posts

wgo,  try here - webcams tab 

wgo wrote:

1) Snowshoe Ballhooter cam - this is now angled up so that you can see the lower ballhooter slope but not the liftline

Reisen
December 30, 2020
Member since 01/25/2005 🔗
368 posts
My understanding is Snowshoe repositioned the Ballhooter cam after people took screenshots of skiers not wearing masks and posted them / sent them to Alterra execs.
Vermont
December 31, 2020
Member since 12/26/2019 🔗
174 posts

Reisen wrote:

My understanding is Snowshoe repositioned the Ballhooter cam after people took screenshots of skiers not wearing masks and posted them / sent them to Alterra execs.

 People need to do the right thing to keep the ski season going wear the damn mask where needed and for gods sake please do not fly to ski it really makes skiers look bad, spoiled etc

snapdragon
December 31, 2020
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353 posts
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Vermont
December 31, 2020
Member since 12/26/2019 🔗
174 posts
Killington has some of Bear mountain lift line on their cam

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