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Gore has an army worth of snowmakiing going and in addition to the 130 new tower guns placed throughout Gore Mountain’s four peaks this fall, installation of 30 more low-profile guns has been completed on the signature Showcase trail.
Showcase is a 1.25 mile cruiser located under the lift line of the high-speed Adirondack Express. The 10' super-efficient tower guns are located to not impact the lift, as the snow is blown under the cables. The water flow is variable, which allows Gore's snowmakers to control the quality and amount of snow produced as the temperatures change.
The energy savings of these 160 new guns amounts to offsetting 1,428,721 KWH of electricity, which is 11% of Gore’s annual usage, or enough to power 260 average three-bedroom homes for a year!
The snowmaking guns have been accompanied by several other improvements for 2011/2012, which include the addition of two new glades on Little Gore Mountain, the all-new Open Pit Grille on the sundeck, a renovation to the Tannery Pub & Restaurant, and a long extension of the Chatterbox Glades.
Pats Peak, New Hampshire, invites Adults to join a Weekday Lesson Clinic, the most cost effective way to learn or improve your skills with lots of attention on individual development. Skiers & Snowboarders of all abilities welcome!
Adult Clinics include a professional Lesson Clinics with the Pats Peak Snowsports School, a morning half-day lift ticket and lunch - all for less than the cost of a Half-Day Lift Ticket!
Adult Clinics can be taken Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Friday morning, starting January 3, 2012 until the end of the season (exclusions apply).
On Wednesdays, starting January 4, 2012, women can participate in the WOW, Women's Only Wednesday, Program. Women start the day off at 9am by enjoying a continental breakfast and an exciting morning discussion, designed specifically for women.
Discussion topics include: skiing/snowboarding fears and risk factors, yoga, skiing/riding exercises, nutrition, strength & power, stance and balance, physical and psychological gender differences, confidence building, equipment and boot fitting, and video analysis to enhance basic skills and improve personal skiing/snowboarding.
After morning discussions, participants head out onto the slopes for on-hill clinics taught by women only. The morning ends with a delicious lunch with instructors, allowing students and instructors to discuss their morning on the slopes.
"The WOW Program is a great program for women to feel comfortable learning on the slopes", say Holland. "Our female instructors personalize the program to the wants and needs of the group of participants," says Bertie Holland, Snowsports School Director.
Cub's Club Kids Programs are available for children whose parent is participating in the Adult Clinics or WOW Program. Cub's Club Child Care at Pats Peak opens at 8:15 am. Advanced reservations are required. Cub's Club Child Care is available for children ages 4 months to 6 years old and Cub's Club is available for children ages 3 years to 6 years.
More Info: Pat's Peak Adult Clinics
Sugarloaf unveiled a new mobile app this week that allows skiers and riders to track their experiences on the mountain, compile their stats online, and share them with friends, all with the push of a single button. The new app, called “Sugarloaf Replay,” is completely free, available to anyone, and operates on both iPhone and Android devices.
Developed with the team at AlpineReplay.com, the Sugarloaf Replay app utilizes the GPS technology in smartphones to calculate a user’s accumulated vertical feet, total mileage, number of runs, average speed, and even calories burned throughout the course of the day and the season.
Skiers and riders are able to track their day on the mountain using the app, and then review the information at the end of the day. Users’ stats are stored in their profile on AlpineReplay.com, and they are able to compare them to stats of friends who also use the Sugarloaf Replay app.
“Skiers have been comparing their days and boasting about stats since the dawn of skiing,” said Brad Larsen, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Sugarloaf. “Sugarloaf Replay is the next step for Sugarloafers in continuing that tradition in an online, social media environment.”
Alpine Replay profiles also easily sync with Facebook, meaning users can automatically share their experiences on the hill with friends and family on Facebook.
Sugarloaf Replay users can compare their accumulated stats to those of other Sugarloaf skiers and riders, as well as to stats of skiers and riders from around the world. The app also features a “challenge” function, which allows users to challenge their friends to achieve various statistical milestones.
Sugarloaf Replay users will also be able to accumulate medals for achieving various milestones throughout the season. There are a total of 10 Sugarloaf specific medals, and 14 Alpine Replay medals.
In addition, the app will also provide users with the latest information from up on the mountain, including up to date lift status, grooming reports, the Daily Report, and instant updates through Sugarloaf’s Twitter Feed, all from within the app.
How To Download:
Sugarloaf Replay is completely free, and available through the iPhone App Store and Android Martket.
To download for iPhone, please visit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sugarloaf-replay/id479536967?mt=8
To download for Android, please visit: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sugarloafreplay.android
More Info:
For more information about Sugarloaf and Sugarloaf Replay, please visit www.sugarloaf.com.
For more information about Alpine Replay, please visit www.alpinereplay.com.
Sunday River Ski Resort and PistenBully USA are teaming up to provide the resort with even better slope conditions thanks to the addition of two new cutting-edge PistenBully 400s to the resort's grooming machine fleet. Both companies plan to celebrate their partnership this Friday, 11.11.11 proclaiming it as National Corduroy Day for all. Corduroy is an industry term for well-groomed snow because the end product looks like the fabric.
"For Sunday River, all of those straight lines represent perfectly groomed slope conditions which will be made even easier for us thanks to PistenBully," Dana Bullen, Resort President and General Manager, says. "What better way to announce our partnership than with a day celebrating well-groomed terrain."
Manufactured in Germany and designed for precision, the PistenBully 400s are known for their AlpineFlexTiller, which produces a well-aligned groom and easy transition when grooming machines overlap on the hill.
"The anatomy for seamless corduroy is built into our Alpine Flex Tiller," says Dennis McGiboney, Vice President of Sales for PistenBully. "It starts with the radius tuned cutter bar for accelerated snow processing, continues with adjustable snow flow for hard or soft conditions, and ends with a memory urethane / windshield wiper effect finisher system. These all add up to produce a high definition corduroy surface that is super fun to ski or ride."
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To celebrate National Corduroy Day, Sunday River and PistenBully invite everybody to check out the two new 400s located in the Barker Base Lodge parking lot. Later this winter, PistenBully will bring to Sunday River several models from its grooming fleet for a more in-depth look at their engineering.
Currently, Sunday River operates 16 grooming machines including the two new PistenBulley 400s.
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With favorable snow making temperatures and a snow storm in the forecast, Mount Snow, Vermont is planning to fire up a few of its high output fan guns starting Thursday night, October 27 in preparation for a pre-season fundraising event and rail fest this Saturday and Sunday, October 29 & 30.
Weather permitting; Mount Snow will open one chairlift on its learning terrain and plant some terrain park features in the snow for a rail-fest-type teaser weekend. All proceeds from the $10 lift tickets will go towards helping North Star Bowl, the popular Wilmington bowling alley, frequented by locals and visitors, that experienced significant flood damage from Tropical Storm Irene.
The lift will spin from 10:00am ? 4:00pm both Saturday and Sunday, October 29 & 30 with lift tickets available for purchase in the Clocktower Building starting at 9:30am both days. Terrain park features will be planted in the snow for park riders to brush up on their skills in preparation for this coming winter.
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Hi folks - We're gearing up for winter 2011-2012 here at Ski the East and, more certain than seeing snow on Halloween, is the debut of a new Warren Miller Production.
Like There's No Tomorrow, the 62nd Warren Miller production, had it's premier showing in Salt Lake City last Friday. I happened to be around the Salt Lake city area and was invited to the pre-movie press conference with most all of the athletes and production bosses in attendance.
As is typical of a Warren miller film there were segments of awesome skiing and comedic antics from snowy places around the world.
One of the highlights in the movie is a segment at Tuckerman's Ravine with New Hampshire native and ski mountaineer extraordinaire Chris Davenport and Québécoise Hugo Harrison.
Tuck's was not in a springtime friendly mode for the movie, with a lot of blue ice shining. After the press conference I mentioned to Chris Davenport that I have to laugh when skiers in Utah say a run was icey. They don't know "ice" and I told Davenport to tell them what I tell'em we don't have ice back east - we have loud powder.
It's good to be getting back into a winter mode so check out the schedule for Like There's No Tomorrow. If you don't see a venue near you it's easy to arrange a sponsored show - makes for a great fundraiser.
Once your all stoked up from the movie grab your checkbook and head to a ski show for good times and great bargains - see you at the Boston Globe Ski and Snowboard Expo.
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