No info, but I'll bet there will be a giant deck in the way.For those in the know: When the old lodge is gone will it be easier to get from the bottom of Superstar to the gondola base by leaving a less uphill path? Yes, skating is great practice and good for the soul and glutes, but can get tedious at times when the snow is slow and slushy.....................just a minor complaint.
I’m certainly not in the know, but I recall reading that would be improved. But I’m not sure how they make it downhill in both directions.
Even if they have the deck, the new one is further towards the road so it should still be a shorter path.No info, but I'll bet there will be a giant deck in the way.
I don't think I'll do a trip report for this one given this thread is a good report... but here's a bunch of pictures...
Friday
@KevinF and @Scruffy heading into the gloom
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@Johnny V. , @Tony S, @KevinF, and @Scruffy with some typical late season NE snow surfaces after buckets of rain the day before
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@mister moose, @PinnacleJim, @KevinF, @Marker, @Scruffy
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This was an open run all weekend (Wildfire)
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@mister moose, @KevinF, @Tony S, some guy in red, @Johnny V., Mrs. Johnny V., @PinnacleJim, @Marker
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@mister moose and @Marker looking down lower East Fall
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Lunch at the Peak Lodge
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View down Superstar later in the day with some wet snow falling
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Me and @Marker getting a bit wet in the falling snow
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Saturday
Beautiful morning on Saturday... view from around the bottom of Superstar
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Shot of how tall the glacier is right now on Superstar
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It was really windy Saturday morning, necessitating covering up from stinging blowing snow and wind
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View from the top of Superstar
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@Scruffy on Superstar
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@SKI-3PO on Superstar
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@Phelmut off the Snowden bubble somewhere
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@TheArchitect at the top of a few bumps off Bunny Buster...
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... and in the bumps with @Phelmut up the hill to the left
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Interesting views from the top of other ski mountains... I think this is Stratton and Mount Snow
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View from the top
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View from the top
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We went over to Bear briefly where there was a good turnout for the mogul competition
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I skied these all weekend... worked well in the very mixed conditions
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Saturday tailgate early
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Dinner Saturday night at The Garlic..
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Sunday
The sun trying to come out on Sunday
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Mrs. @Marker, @Johnny V., and @Tony S at the top of Superstar
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@James coming out of some bumps
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Panic Button/Needles Eye... I think there are a bunch of SkiTalkers in there somewhere
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@Tony S, @James, and others coming down Highline
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EDIT... NOT @James
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@ScottB, @Dean and others
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Thanks especially to @KevinF and @Guy in Shorts for the organizing and hospitality. And thanks to everyone I got to ski with and hang out with... it was a great weekend!
...endless metal steps...
It was also a good place to leave a backpack if you felt like taking a load off for a run.
If I had a dollar for every story you were involved in at the NEG, I could’ve bought a lunch entree, a coffee, and dessert at the Peak Lodge.
Knowing someone is a prerequisite for offending them? Well, crap ... I've been doing this wrong.I tell ya, they are all lying. There is no way in hell a short fat old guy like me can offended so many. I betcha I don't even know some of them.
He also has the best blue cheese on any given sunny afternoon in Bay 1.The free heeler skiing with us today is Tele Rich. I spend most days with a front row seat to some the of the most amazing turns on the mountain. He skis 100 plus days a winter season then hikes 100 plus days in the warm weather. He also shows up to the mountain a hour early each day and saves my parking spot.
Last chair will be sometime after Memorial Day. See you then.It was another great day with friends old and new. And I got last chair on Superstar.
Yes. Bigger than Marker. Hails from Stockbridge. Has a facebook page.That looks like Rodger, the bird man. He skis in road kill ski atire. I know him from Jiminy peak.
If you come on a good snow year, you ski right to the (back) door. This year... not so much.That’s not nearly as egregious as the top lodge though, where there’s no short ski path to ski down there from the gondola exit. Are we at a hiking resort??
Instead, you’re forced to walk down those endless metal steps that go up and then down carrying your skis. Turn the skis the wrong way and the tails get stuck in the metal grating. At best it’s like climbing around some oil facility in Alaska. When it’s cold and the wind is blowing snow horizontally, now you’re Edmund Hillary on Everest with some balky oxygen unit clinging to a moth eaten rope and any second you could topple.
If you decide to use the ramps, there’s so many switchbacks you’ll pass out from vertigo.
Much easier to have a groomer width trail to ski down. Put skis on, ski down, take them off. That’s what we do when skiing.
The new lodge will end well downhill of the old lodge. However, as of the last plans that were published, the new deck will go out to within 5 feet of where the NW corner of the old lodge is/was. So the schlep savings will be approximately the width of the old deck. Not a lot. They could do far more benefit by regrading the hump where you go from that corner of the lodge to the waffle shack, and take all the vertical out so it is level each way.For those in the know: When the old lodge is gone will it be easier to get from the bottom of Superstar to the gondola base by leaving a less uphill path?
Just wanted to make sure nobody else skipped over Zircon's great trip report, as I almost did (you need to click on the Spoiler alert). Bostedo - looks like you have a rival in the making...Spoiler: At the risk of writing the next great American novel here, here's a newbie's take...
Thanks for showing us around!Would have loved to showcase the resort after a stellar winter snowpack but this was not the year.
Thanks for pointing it out! I missed it the first time!Just wanted to make sure nobody else skipped over Zircon's great trip report, as I almost did (you need to click on the Spoiler alert). Bostedo - looks like you have a rival in the making...
Alan has a new username. We can use his real name now!Just wanted to make sure nobody else skipped over Zircon's great trip report, as I almost did (you need to click on the Spoiler alert). Bostedo - looks like you have a rival in the making...
Alan has a new username. We can use his real name now!
It’s just going to happen.Now I think we should start calling him Needham in real life.