Snowshoe received it's first coating of snow today. Therefore, it's time to start this season's thread of groans, complaints and maybe even some love for the shoe.
Regardless of your thoughts about SS, it's nice to see white stuff coming out of the sky.
While my family tends to prefer CV and TL over SS, I still enjoy making turns there. Wondering if SS will be making improvements over the next several years.
Peak Rankings did a review of Snowshoe. What do you think?
The write up is excellent, but the overall score (44) could have been a few points higher,
specifically in the categories of Snow, Resiliency, and Mountain Aesthetic, each at +1.
My 2 cents.
Bird Dog wrote:
The write up is excellent, but the overall score (44) could have been a few points higher,
specifically in the categories of Snow, Resiliency, and Mountain Aesthetic, each at +1.
My 2 cents.
Thanks for taking a look.
Hadn't really looked at the numerical ratings. I agree on Snow and Resiliency for sure. Haven't been for a while so don't have as strong an opinion for Mountain Aesthetic.
From the article:
"Snowshoe's upside down layout is unique for the Mid-Atlantic, let alone anywhere in the United States."
Fail - c'mon, there's another example of an upside-down resort just a few hours away in Wintergreen, and two more just in PA IIRC.
Keith_Moon wrote:
From the article:
"Snowshoe's upside down layout is unique for the Mid-Atlantic, let alone anywhere in the United States."
Fail - c'mon, there's another example of an upside-down resort just a few hours away in Wintergreen, and two more just in PA IIRC.
Yeah, that's not even remotely true. As you note, there are many "upside-down" ski resorts in North America. According to this story on BraveSkiMom, inverted East coast resorts include Blue Knob, Blue Mountain (which has parking lots at the top and bottom of the mountain), Jack Frost, Laurel Mountain, Ski Big Bear, Wintergreen, and Snowshoe. I guess it's fair to say Snowshoe is unique in the state of West Virginia (of the four downhill areas there).
Scott wrote:
Keith_Moon wrote:
From the article:
"Snowshoe's upside down layout is unique for the Mid-Atlantic, let alone anywhere in the United States."
Fail - c'mon, there's another example of an upside-down resort just a few hours away in Wintergreen, and two more just in PA IIRC.
Yeah, that's not even remotely true. As you note, there are many "upside-down" ski resorts in North America. According to this story on BraveSkiMom, inverted East coast resorts include Blue Knob, Blue Mountain (which has parking lots at the top and bottom of the mountain), Jack Frost, Laurel Mountain, Ski Big Bear, Wintergreen, and Snowshoe. I guess it's fair to say Snowshoe is unique in the state of West Virginia (of the four downhill areas there).
It;s not even true nationally - there are other upside downers. It is true that the relatively high top side elevation plus the relatively high basin elevaation provides an optimized micro climate, at the acceptable expense of vertical on that side.
Honestly, I have not been to Shoe in several years but I am afraid to read that ranking it might not be kind. I'm actually surprised they did that one.
swoop wrote:
12/5 opening? Lame. Got the gift of a foot of snow and a few cold nights ahead of the weekend, high elevation and great SM. Should be able to open 11/30 for the weekend with some limited terrain. Corporate lame. Well I guess all my chips on are Tline (pun intended).
A foot of natural snow doesn’t do much… take a look at the current webcams this morning. Unfortunately, I’m going to guess timberline is probably looking at sometime between the 5-7th. Snowshoe takes a lot of snow to get the top of the mountain open.
Snowshoe would love to sell $90+ lift tickets this weekend for a handful of trails this weekend if they could.
Some of the mountains in Colorado have between 60-80” of snow since late October and the non snowmaking terrain is still closed/filled with obstacles after being opened a few hours.
Gotta open the right way and not the wrong way.
Open the wrong way and any potential base is gone, and then...
Gotta start over.
In CO, A-Basin just opened to the top yesterday....Nov 25th.
They now have 2 lifts open and 4 runs; and they opened Nov 2nd.....Not great.
Every resort is different and needs to do what is appropriate for it's own unique circumstances.
Conditions need to be safe in order to open too.
rbrtlav wrote:
A foot of natural snow doesn’t do much… take a look at the current webcams this morning. Unfortunately, I’m going to guess timberline is probably looking at sometime between the 5-7th. Snowshoe takes a lot of snow to get the top of the mountain open.
Not a guess anymore for Timberline. They sent out email today announcing Dec. 5 as opening day.
This was a big part of the problem last year, never got a decent base and always playing catchup.
Bird Dog wrote:
Gotta open the right way and not the wrong way.
Open the wrong way and any potential base is gone, and then...
Gotta start over.
In CO, A-Basin just opened to the top yesterday....Nov 25th.
They now have 2 lifts open and 4 runs; and they opened Nov 2nd.....Not great.
Every resort is different and needs to do what is appropriate for it's own unique circumstances.
Conditions need to be safe in order to open too.
Bird Dog wrote:
In CO, A-Basin just opened to the top yesterday....Nov 25th.
They now have 2 lifts open and 4 runs; and they opened Nov 2nd.....Not great.
Every resort is different and needs to do what is appropriate for its own unique circumstances.
A-basin is VERY water restricted compared to the other summit county resorts. Based on their Facebook page this morning it looks like they will be opening quite a bit of new terrain with the natural snow they just got.
Sticking with my original notion that Shoe/Tline could have opened today (11/30) with limited terrain, certainly tomorrow (12/1) at very latest, but... oh well, just glad we are finally getting the weather! Looks beautiful. Wax 'em baby!!!
The new midweek daily reporter for SkiSoutheast is Jen Shannon. She and her husband own and operate the Waffle Cabin at Snowshoe. Needless to say, her reporting about Snowshoe this season won't be based only on webcam views. She worked at Snowshoe's Ski&Ride School for twenty years.
Last year's First Trax reporter was Josh Sullivan. He was great, but too good at his day job. Got promoted and moved out of NC.
Ok, I'm jealous!
Blue Don 1982 wrote:
Winter Storm Watch for the Shoe on Wed night into opening day!
https://www.wunderground.com/severe/us/wv/slatyfork/KWVSLATY6
don't be jealous...be there
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