Feel free to post confirmed season closing dates to this thread.
The Homestead in Virginia announced today that Monday, February 20, 2023 will be the last day of their 2022-2023 snowsports season. They will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday and note that all rentals will be complimentary that day with the purchase of a lift ticket.
Wintergreen goes down !!! Actually they *look* closed now.
The southeast has experienced two consecutive weeks of record warm temperatures far above the seasonal norms for February. In spite of a valiant effort to keep the ski season going by making snow at every opportunity, we’ve made the difficult decision to conclude the 2022-23 winter season this Sunday, February 26 at 5:00pm. Please check our website and mountain cameras for the latest information on conditions, and what will be open for skiing and riding on Saturday and Sunday. All Mission: Affordable season passes will be valid both Saturday and Sunday this weekend. We would like to thank our Season Passholders, Members, Homeowners, and all Wintergreen Resort Guests for skiing and riding with us this winter, and we look forward to kicking off another ski season next December.
From happier days:
https://www.dcski.com/articles/1429
Official list day at Wintergreen. View from top. lapped highlands about 8 times and then time to leave. Farewell.
7Springs is eyeing up March 19th as their last day but they may be forced to close sooner if we get too many more warm/rain days. I asked about if they were planning to cease midweek operations and it was not known what their plans were there.
Cataloochee is set to close for the season after 4:30 today
Let's hope Timberline is successful in convincing the state to let them take over the operations of CV skiing. It's still going to cost money to get CVR up to speed, but as we all know if it can be done the Perfect team can do it, and fast.
Can you say Valley Pass
And if you had not heard, see last few sentences.
https://wvpublic.org/ski-resort-employees-struggle-for-housing-even-after-large-investments/#:~:text=Timberline%20Mountain%20Ski%20Resort%20General,Joint%20Commision%20on%20Economic%20Development.
Rickh wrote:
Let's hope Timberline is successful in convincing the state to let them take over the operations of CV skiing. It's still going to cost money to get CVR up to speed, but as we all know if it can be done the Perfect team can do it, and fast.
Can you say Valley Pass
And if you had not heard, see last few sentences.
https://wvpublic.org/ski-resort-employees-struggle-for-housing-even-after-large-investments/#:~:text=Timberline%20Mountain%20Ski%20Resort%20General,Joint%20Commision%20on%20Economic%20Development.
I have no doubt the Perfects could pull it off. The question is how much of a % pass increase would you tolerate for a Valley Pass?
Yet their snow report still says open.
Looking at the web cams all Winter I don't know how they made any money this Winter, the crowds were so incredibly sparse all Winter.
7Springs has a very nice base on Avalanche, boomerang, wagner, those trails around wagner. I think it will make it to April 2nd. Will they stay open? Well seeing them shut down HV even on weekends kinda has me concerned that 7S will also shut down April 2nd even if they hold onto a nice base. The rain/warm temps though will make it look ugly and will push away more people from coming. The last couple of weekends have been fairly busy. Last Sunday the cafeteria area was about 65% full of people sitting at tables taking a break.
Slopeside however, they continue to 'break down' their salad bar earlier and earlier on Sundays. That's when we liked to go because of lower crowds and the cheap salad bar :)
What does that consist of? Whatever it is that just made me hungry!
chuck_wow wrote:
Never had salad bar there. Usually if I'm at 7S I get a Pittsburgh hot plate at the main lodge.
Slopeside menu has improved, but the execution of the food is just ok. Undercooked crabbed stuffed shrimp, the filet was the smallest Ive ever seen, and it's obvious all of this is prepared prior and frozen. It's rather pricey too. Sadly, it doesnt include soup/salad, you pay another I think $10 for that.
The buffet I believe they still have Fri/Sat. It's pricey and the food is usually interesting but kinda meh...usually dried out.
The only reason I go there is for that soup/salad bar. The soups are usually pretty darn good. The salad is general low quality stuff with limited options but it hits the spot. They usually also include one hot entree with a warm veggie and potatoes...and you get this for $14.60 with your epic pass. Not bad considering McDonald's will run you $11 for even smaller beef patties, subpar food and service even though they are all getting paid double what they were before?
7S is notorious for not being very consistent. As such, when it's kinda not busy like on a Sunday night..things tend to shut down without notice. So this turns guests away who just leave without eating. I think if people knew that this salad bar existed, they would stay open for longer. Instead they have been shutting down earlier and earlier.
The other thing that I noticed about 7S is it is becoming more of a weekend place than a weeklong vacation spot for guests. Weekdays are DEAD. You could ski, swim, bowl, mini golf, eat a great ice cream cone, roller skate and just enjoy the scenery with almost no one around you. Sadly, I bet now they are also shutting down many of those services mid week due to the lack of people. And what occurs is, less and less people return for mid week knowing that everything is shut down.
It's a vicious circle. 7S needs to add consistency and ADVERTISE to their guests!
Put a sign near the goggle and near the ticket area. Soup/Salad/1 hot entree only $18! Open until 7pm Today!
chuck_wow wrote:
Never had salad bar there. Usually if I'm at 7S I get a Pittsburgh hot plate at the main lodge.
Sugar Mountain in NC is closing for the season at 4pm on Thursday, March 28. The rain forecast for the weekend meant staying open for one more weekend didn't make sense.
So the lifts in NC, TN, VA are done spinning for the 2022-23 season.
I think the reason no one is showing up mid-week is because it looks like this. Only diehards come to ski on this stuff..
Grumpy dad wrote:
Slopeside menu has improved, but the execution of the food is just ok. Undercooked crabbed stuffed shrimp, the filet was the smallest Ive ever seen, and it's obvious all of this is prepared prior and frozen. It's rather pricey too. Sadly, it doesnt include soup/salad, you pay another I think $10 for that.
The buffet I believe they still have Fri/Sat. It's pricey and the food is usually interesting but kinda meh...usually dried out.
The only reason I go there is for that soup/salad bar. The soups are usually pretty darn good. The salad is general low quality stuff with limited options but it hits the spot. They usually also include one hot entree with a warm veggie and potatoes...and you get this for $14.60 with your epic pass. Not bad considering McDonald's will run you $11 for even smaller beef patties, subpar food and service even though they are all getting paid double what they were before?
7S is notorious for not being very consistent. As such, when it's kinda not busy like on a Sunday night..things tend to shut down without notice. So this turns guests away who just leave without eating. I think if people knew that this salad bar existed, they would stay open for longer. Instead they have been shutting down earlier and earlier.
The other thing that I noticed about 7S is it is becoming more of a weekend place than a weeklong vacation spot for guests. Weekdays are DEAD. You could ski, swim, bowl, mini golf, eat a great ice cream cone, roller skate and just enjoy the scenery with almost no one around you. Sadly, I bet now they are also shutting down many of those services mid week due to the lack of people. And what occurs is, less and less people return for mid week knowing that everything is shut down.
It's a vicious circle. 7S needs to add consistency and ADVERTISE to their guests!
Put a sign near the goggle and near the ticket area. Soup/Salad/1 hot entree only $18! Open until 7pm Today!
chuck_wow wrote:
Never had salad bar there. Usually if I'm at 7S I get a Pittsburgh hot plate at the main lodge.
Anybody thinking about driving their Epic pass North for end of season turns should know the following about Stowe: the reported closing date of April 16 is slightly misleading. The Stowe Gondola will close this coming Sunday. The Spruce side of the resort will cease lift ops this Sunday as well. Tollhouse double has already closed for the season. The Quad and the Sunrise Sixpack are scheduled to run through April 16. Sounds like they are the only lifts that will spin through April 16. Looking at a storm coming through tomorrow night.
OK LMAO !
or a giant mud-wrestling venue?
chuck_wow wrote:
Jesus man. Looks like a venue for motocross or maybe a tractor pull. But not downhill snowsports. That's an open resort? People buying day tickets for that? I have not enough info to have an opinion about whether it's bad weather, bad luck, or bad management. I just know that looks depressing.
I'm sure its still prime for Pittsburgh hot plate
Crush wrote:
OK LMAO !
or a giant mud-wrestling venu
chuck_wow wrote:
Jesus man. Looks like a venue for motocross or maybe a tractor pull. But not downhill snowsports. That's an open resort? People buying day tickets for that? I have not enough info to have an opinion about whether it's bad weather, bad luck, or bad management. I just know that looks depressing.
They really need to add another camera on Philips run or fawn lane. The overview camera makes it look like nothing should be open. I suspect Phillips and fawn are actually not that bad… but it’s hard to tell.
I remember going to Holiday valley one year, I think it was mid April. They had tons of snow but most of the slopes were closed. That was disappointing.
chuck_wow wrote:
Anybody thinking about driving their Epic pass North for end of season turns should know the following about Stowe: the reported closing date of April 16 is slightly misleading. The Stowe Gondola will close this coming Sunday. The Spruce side of the resort will cease lift ops this Sunday as well. Tollhouse double has already closed for the season. The Quad and the Sunrise Sixpack are scheduled to run through April 16. Sounds like they are the only lifts that will spin through April 16. Looking at a storm coming through tomorrow night.
Here's your snow report from 7Springs Mah tin (Pittsburghese for Mountain)
Sadly it is raining, and it plans to continue to rain all day, night, and into Saturday...then it will take a break for a few hours, and then ...RAIN SOME MORE!
Oh how this place used to get great snowfall every year. Sad to see this happen worse every single year. I can't imagine what it will look like in 10 years. Grass skiing anyone?
I skied A-Basin n conditions like that on a closing day a long long time ago. They had to use the cats to bring down enough snow to enable people to ski back to the bottom of Lenawee. Parts of the trail were exactly one cat track wide.
A-Basin is still open......Frontside only.
Their final day this season is June 4th.
