Skiing this week?

fatlazyless · 04-01-2022, 06:06 AM

Friday, April 1, 2022: www.waterville.com/cams ..... has been raining pretty hard all night with temp at 40-degrees.

Looking at the cam shot, what you see? You see right now, a large yellow excavator digging snow out from a tree shaded, side area, just above the chairlift with a snow groomer nearby.

What's going on here? Have never seen this done with an excavator like this? It appears that Waterville Valley is MINING for SNOW .... apparently to find snow to fill in all the ground with NO snow that surrounds the bottom terminal area of their chair lift so it can be used this weekend ..... or something!???

So, how about that ..... is most unusual ..... and that's no April 1 joke ...... ha-ha-ha! .....

Maybe the quik-fix solution is ground up, white styrofoam for when the man-made snow has melted away ..... you know the stuff used to make cheapie coffee cups ..... and spread it across the brown ground to replace the needed snow .... as a quik-fix .... shredded styrofoam to the rescue! ....

fatlazyless · 04-10-2022, 07:47 AM

Sunday, April 10, 2022: last day of skiing is today at Waterville Valley and the web cam shot shows the main quad lift now has NO cable, and NO 4-seat chairs as these have been removed. A completely new six-seat chairlift will be replacing the existing four-seat lift that was installed in 1988, when it replaced a two-seat lift that was installed in 1966 when the ski area opened.

www.waterville.com/cams ... live cam

The Waterville Valley CovidChair: with six seats and a large plexiglass flip-down cover to enclose and protect the six occupants from the wind, it seems like a good ride for catching a virus. The Corona virus thrives in a cold dry environment like an ice hockey rink so this is something to think about before getting aboard this new six seat, chairlift. ....

.... and rots-O-ruck with it! ...

www.waterville.com/new-lift-updates .... new six person chairlift with a bubble

FlyingScot · 04-10-2022, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by fatlazyless

Sunday, April 10, 2022: last day of skiing is today at Waterville Valley and the web cam shot shows the main quad lift now has NO cable, and NO 4-seat chairs as these have been removed. A completely new six-seat chairlift will be replacing the existing four-seat lift that was installed in 1987, when it replaced a two-seat lift that was installed in 1966 when the ski area opened.

www.waterville.com/cams ... live cam

The Waterville Valley CovidChair: with six seats and a large plexiglass flip-down cover to enclose and protect the six occupants from the wind, it seems like a good ride for catching a virus. The Corona virus thrives in a cold dry environment like an ice hockey rink so this is something to think about before getting aboard this new six seat, chairlift. ....

.... and rots-O-ruck with it! ...

www.waterville.com/new-lift-updates .... new six person chairlift with a bubble

Is it "progress" if there are 50% more people on the trail when you get to the top?

SailinAway · 04-11-2022, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by fatlazyless

Sunday, April 10, 2022: last day of skiing is today at Waterville Valley

Any idea when the last day is at Bretton Woods? I can't find it at their website.

Update: Found it. They closed yesterday. Dang.

fatlazyless · 09-26-2022, 01:45 PM

Slowly but surely, inch by inch, foot by foot, and yard by yard, this here new-fangled chairlift CABLE is slowly being installed onto the new cable towers, starting up top at the White's Peak summit area on this new six-pack bubble chairlift ...... www.waterville.com/cams .... that supposedly costs nine million dollars to build..... a big price?

All things considered, a 5000' long x 1/2" rope tow, surface lift, could be a heck of a ski lift ride back up the mountain and really put Waterville Valley on the map for installing an old rope tow. Like, rope tows made skiing much more fun riding up the rope tow lift ride than skiing back down the mountain ....

..... if you ask me ..... and this new bubble chair has way too much design technology! ...... sneer-sneer! .....

https://www.newenglandskiindustry.co...hp?storyid=926 ...... 'Waterville Valley Construction Ramps Up' ...... Waterville Valley opening day is scheduled to be 8-am, Saturday, December 3, 2022 ..... looks like Thanksgiving skiing will NOT be happening at Waterville Valley ....... will their new 6-seat, nine million dollar, enclosed bubble chair be running and usable on opening day, Dec 3 ..... or, will it be raining?

Was not too long ago, like the year 2005 and earlier that snow-making would start on Nov 1, and the ski area would open on or about Nov 15.

fatlazyless · 12-01-2022, 12:03 PM

Thursday, December 1, 2022 and it's looking and feeling maybe a little bit like winter with a temperature at 33-degrees and a very few, lonely snowflakes in the air in the aftermath of yesterday's heavy rain fall.

Hey, check out their new Waterville Valley six-seat, enclosed bubble chairlift ..... www.waterville.com/cams ..... scheduled to open for the winter on Saturday, December 3 despite the predicted rain and warm temps ...... so, wait and see what happens with that? Will it be open and operating or will it wait another week for some colder temps to be making the needed snow on the slope?

SailinAway · 12-01-2022, 08:59 PM

Yay! Covid from strangers on a bubble lift!

LoveLakeLife · 12-01-2022, 09:06 PM

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Yay! Covid from strangers on a bubble lift!

haha No one cares anymore. The fad is long over. Take the risk, leave the house.

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thinkxingu · 12-01-2022, 09:18 PM

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haha No one cares anymore. The fad is long over. Take the risk, leave the house.

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Agreed. Covid's the new flu.

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fatlazyless · 12-02-2022, 05:15 AM

Friday, Dec 2, 5-am with temps at mid-20's: there's a line of snow guns making snow on the White Caps trail, top to bottom, under the new 6-seater lift so snow making is happening whenever the temperature is low enough. These snow guns were running all yesterday afternoon when it was above 32-degrees and it looked like they were spraying all water spray in anticipation of a predicted temperature drop at sundown.

A Waterville Valley decision was made to move back opening day by one week to December 10 to get through the predicted rain and warmth and hopefully all goes good with the snow cover now getting made, temperatures allowing, on the slope.

Prediction: seating six people in a small confined, tinted dark, plastic bubble enclosed chairlift for a seven minute chairlift ride will be a non-issue with regard to transmitting any airborne virus via cold dry mountain air. You can see from a distance the enclosed, 6-pak, bubble chairs on their webcam ..... www.waterville.com/cams

Time will tell?

This new Tecumseh Express 6-seater chairlift supposedly cost over nine million dollars to build it in 2021/2022.

Skiers and riders usually wear a face mask on a chairlift ride for staying warm from the wind, and now on this new 6-seater Tecumseh Express chairlift to stop the spread of the coronavirus while riding this chair inside a plastic bubble, and sharing close breathing space with up to five others. The great majority of skiers and riders are under age 30, and probably not at all concerned about it? They just want to hit the slopes. As Mad Magazine's Alford E Neuman ...... used to say .......

....... "What, me worry?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_phhPGuJjlg ........ Waterville Valley, snow season opening update #3: Thursday, Dec 1, 2022

04-01-2022, 06:06 AM	#1
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,967 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 309 Thanked 1,061 Times in 774 Posts	Friday, April 1, 2022: www.waterville.com/cams ..... has been raining pretty hard all night with temp at 40-degrees. Looking at the cam shot, what you see? You see right now, a large yellow excavator digging snow out from a tree shaded, side area, just above the chairlift with a snow groomer nearby. What's going on here? Have never seen this done with an excavator like this? It appears that Waterville Valley is MINING for SNOW .... apparently to find snow to fill in all the ground with NO snow that surrounds the bottom terminal area of their chair lift so it can be used this weekend ..... or something!??? So, how about that ..... is most unusual ..... and that's no April 1 joke ...... ha-ha-ha! ..... Maybe the quik-fix solution is ground up, white styrofoam for when the man-made snow has melted away ..... you know the stuff used to make cheapie coffee cups ..... and spread it across the brown ground to replace the needed snow .... as a quik-fix .... shredded styrofoam to the rescue! .... __________________ .... Banned for life from local thrift store!

04-10-2022, 07:47 AM	#2
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,967 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 309 Thanked 1,061 Times in 774 Posts	Sunday, April 10, 2022: last day of skiing is today at Waterville Valley and the web cam shot shows the main quad lift now has NO cable, and NO 4-seat chairs as these have been removed. A completely new six-seat chairlift will be replacing the existing four-seat lift that was installed in 1988, when it replaced a two-seat lift that was installed in 1966 when the ski area opened. www.waterville.com/cams ... live cam The Waterville Valley CovidChair: with six seats and a large plexiglass flip-down cover to enclose and protect the six occupants from the wind, it seems like a good ride for catching a virus. The Corona virus thrives in a cold dry environment like an ice hockey rink so this is something to think about before getting aboard this new six seat, chairlift. .... .... and rots-O-ruck with it! ... www.waterville.com/new-lift-updates .... new six person chairlift with a bubble __________________ .... Banned for life from local thrift store! Last edited by fatlazyless; 04-10-2022 at 05:49 PM. Reason: Correction; changed 1987 to 1988

09-26-2022, 01:45 PM	#5
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,967 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 309 Thanked 1,061 Times in 774 Posts	Slowly but surely, inch by inch, foot by foot, and yard by yard, this here new-fangled chairlift CABLE is slowly being installed onto the new cable towers, starting up top at the White's Peak summit area on this new six-pack bubble chairlift ...... www.waterville.com/cams .... that supposedly costs nine million dollars to build..... a big price? All things considered, a 5000' long x 1/2" rope tow, surface lift, could be a heck of a ski lift ride back up the mountain and really put Waterville Valley on the map for installing an old rope tow. Like, rope tows made skiing much more fun riding up the rope tow lift ride than skiing back down the mountain .... ..... if you ask me ..... and this new bubble chair has way too much design technology! ...... sneer-sneer! ..... https://www.newenglandskiindustry.co...hp?storyid=926 ...... 'Waterville Valley Construction Ramps Up' ...... Waterville Valley opening day is scheduled to be 8-am, Saturday, December 3, 2022 ..... looks like Thanksgiving skiing will NOT be happening at Waterville Valley ....... will their new 6-seat, nine million dollar, enclosed bubble chair be running and usable on opening day, Dec 3 ..... or, will it be raining? Was not too long ago, like the year 2005 and earlier that snow-making would start on Nov 1, and the ski area would open on or about Nov 15. Last edited by fatlazyless; 11-20-2022 at 08:44 AM.

12-02-2022, 05:15 AM	#10
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,967 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 309 Thanked 1,061 Times in 774 Posts	Friday, Dec 2, 5-am with temps at mid-20's: there's a line of snow guns making snow on the White Caps trail, top to bottom, under the new 6-seater lift so snow making is happening whenever the temperature is low enough. These snow guns were running all yesterday afternoon when it was above 32-degrees and it looked like they were spraying all water spray in anticipation of a predicted temperature drop at sundown. A Waterville Valley decision was made to move back opening day by one week to December 10 to get through the predicted rain and warmth and hopefully all goes good with the snow cover now getting made, temperatures allowing, on the slope. Prediction: seating six people in a small confined, tinted dark, plastic bubble enclosed chairlift for a seven minute chairlift ride will be a non-issue with regard to transmitting any airborne virus via cold dry mountain air. You can see from a distance the enclosed, 6-pak, bubble chairs on their webcam ..... www.waterville.com/cams Time will tell? This new Tecumseh Express 6-seater chairlift supposedly cost over nine million dollars to build it in 2021/2022. Skiers and riders usually wear a face mask on a chairlift ride for staying warm from the wind, and now on this new 6-seater Tecumseh Express chairlift to stop the spread of the coronavirus while riding this chair inside a plastic bubble, and sharing close breathing space with up to five others. The great majority of skiers and riders are under age 30, and probably not at all concerned about it? They just want to hit the slopes. As Mad Magazine's Alford E Neuman ...... used to say ....... ....... "What, me worry?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=_phhPGuJjlg ........ Waterville Valley, snow season opening update #3: Thursday, Dec 1, 2022 Last edited by fatlazyless; 12-04-2022 at 08:29 AM.

12-01-2022, 12:03 PM	#6
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,967 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 309 Thanked 1,061 Times in 774 Posts	Thursday, December 1, 2022 and it's looking and feeling maybe a little bit like winter with a temperature at 33-degrees and a very few, lonely snowflakes in the air in the aftermath of yesterday's heavy rain fall. Hey, check out their new Waterville Valley six-seat, enclosed bubble chairlift ..... www.waterville.com/cams ..... scheduled to open for the winter on Saturday, December 3 despite the predicted rain and warm temps ...... so, wait and see what happens with that? Will it be open and operating or will it wait another week for some colder temps to be making the needed snow on the slope?

12-01-2022, 08:59 PM	#7
SailinAway Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2019 Posts: 991 Thanks: 256 Thanked 280 Times in 169 Posts	Yay! Covid from strangers on a bubble lift!

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