April 24th, Cortina lift and Wagner Slope. $24 per person. Goggle open 11-5 with free hot dogs

Ha, you scooped me. I won't be there, it'll cost too much in lost wages. Too bad it's not Saturday.

Nice!

http://12.169.112.244/Webvid8.jpg
not sure if this will work

Keep watching to see the snow on the slopes. Created by Seven Springs.

Seven Springs-SNOW DAY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=On3rcEENtgw

Kudos to 7S.

I'm not a Bob Nutting fan but I must give credit when it's due. If not for a meeting today, I would have gone up just to say I did it.

I hope they have a nice turn out.

http://www.7springs.com/
Watch the 7Springs site video about today's skiing. Then click on the web cam and check out the slope and lift line.
Sure looks like mid-winter...congrats to 7Springs for pulling off an advertising coup, to skiers/boarders delight!

Who went? I am jealous! What fun!
The Colonel

Lots of pics on the Seven Springs FB Page. National coverage on TV yesterday morning, front page of the Washington Post today . . . definitely a good day for the marketing folks.

A Baltimore meteorologist drove up to Seven Springs early Mon morning, arrived around 9:30am, measured the snow, took some video, did a little reporting, and drove home. He brought some snow home for his sons. Now that's a snow lover!

Here's the scoop on how they managed to get open for today. There is also a video of his arrival at Seven Springs.
"But after a burst of heavy snow in the afternoon, the Director of Ski Patrol Dick Barron thought it was worth a try. The crew sent a groomer up one of the trails, and the snow held. After a few test runs, the race was on to round up enough people to work the chair lifts, patrol, and grooming. They did it."

Continue reading on Examiner.com April snow chase Part 2: Sights and sounds at Seven Springs, record ski opening - Baltimore Weather | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/article/april-sn...s#ixzz1sxPfyD48

not too many mid-atlantic ski areas could or would pull this off. yet another notch for springs.

Rumor has it there is a regional Mayor's Conference at Seven Springs today. I heard that WV is well represented.

Looking at the webcam, looks like the skiing lasted only until about 1pm. Temps in the 40's melted the 10 inch base pretty fast with folks sliding on it.

A run from the top. ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5gaiC5lTp4s

Official summary of the day. Free hot dogs for those who went.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f_FXJqUv0E

Yes pretty nice turnout. The hotdogs were free, beer was cheap, snow was pretty good for spring.

I read as far as where they groomed it. No way of knowing without being there if they groomed all that they opened. Odds are very long that anything open was left in its natural state. That's why I went to Whitegrass.

Jimmy and Denis, I got one for each of you:
frosty

link to pictures from April 23rd snow storm, first picture is bottom of northface slope, second is me on gunnar slope, third picture is driving the subaru outback down a snow covered access road

Nice first post Heath. Was Gunnar groomed ?