McDude, I'm a big fan of Gunstock. We're 10 minutes away and we buy season passes every year. We're there for the first chair up, then leave by 10:30 - 11:00 when it starts to get crowded. Also enjoy the night skiing and snowshoeing a few times during the season. I'd also like to see them open the summit chair to nightskiing in the future. Only complaint I have is that on many trips up the new quad it would either slow down or stop completely. You might recall that one time last year they had to evacuate everyone from the chair. I don't understand why they have these problems with a brand new chair. Hopefully they got the bugs worked out and it will be a smooth operation this year.
While on the subject of skiing, the Cog Railway will be open to the public this winter for skiing. They're going to groom trails next to the railroad trestle which will be of moderate difficulty. From what I understand they won't be running the Cog up to the summit in order to keep the yahoos that don't belong up there from skiing over the headwall into Tuckerman's Ravine. Can't wait to try this just to say I did it.
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