Well...this isn't NEWS but I took a little stroll today. Down Cedars to the base of the BR Quad. They are doing a great job from what I can tell. Lots of well thought out drainage.

I got pretty excited about it. Cedars has more pitch than I imagined... it's a sort of a cross between Sunway and Twister. At least it won't be a chore. Sagamore, the black, from the bottom looks very cool. Lots of pitch at the bottom. There are some rocks below the lift that look to be Huckable after a few years and a big dump. There is real potential over there. (Charlie!) Sorry no pics, but my camera bit it at WF this year.

Has anyone else noticed that this will be, yet another, detachable lift without off line storage? While the gondola has storage, it goes unused. They've eliminated the storage barn for the Burnt Ridge chairs. This means that when there is freezing rain or icing from snow making, this lift will probably be the last to open. Following a night of icing, the lift maintenance guys often have to climb every tower to knock the ice off the wheel assemblies and then they deal with frozen grips as they enter the upper and lower terminals. Every other ski area with detachables puts the chairs away at night.

Hi All;

The choppers have been working feverishly the last two days ferrying concrete to from up the tower bases. I have attached some photos.

C

FANTASTIC STUFF! Thanks Megaman.

Do you think based on what you have seen last week, that they will have this lift done for the 2008/2009 season? We are not far from 1st snow (2 months) and I don't see any towers up yet.
THanks for the continued updates. Eric

The concrete needs 2 weeks of cure time. The towers are scheduled to be put up around the first week of October. Official opening of the chair will hopefully be determined by snow!


C

Here is the action from today!









C

nice job cork,ive herd that only one trail will have snowmaking on it this year,what have you herd?plus the only way to get to this lift is from the base area,wich involves a bit of a trek. cya soon

Very cool pic on the site today:

Nice new pic of Burnt Ridge. For some reason...couldn't resize and embed:

http://goremountain.com/mountain/photos.cfm

Yeah . . . Solid Picture . . . That one trail (Sagamore?) looks like it would be sick on a powder day.

I want to see Cables on those lifts, though!!!! C'mon . . . The snow flies tonight!!!

Wow....From that angle the area looks SOLID. Nice....

Mud puddles I said "ohh niice" when I went to the site this morning. It looks like it's going to be fun over there

Denison wrote:

not sure what they meant by "hi-def" - the video appears in a pretty small window too many captions like "MORE GORE" popping out every second... nice work by cameraman though

I sent this note to marketing through the suggestion box on the website. Feel free to copy and paste it if you agree:

Could you post a version of the Burnt Ridge aerial video without the graphics? It would be so cool if you could actually see the video. I understand the need to do marketing but you really can't see anything.

Thanks.

From the website...the caption leads you to believe that they've got the BRQ strung and running. But maybe they just climbed a pole.