Instead of separate area-by-area threads, maybe we can put together a master list of improvements underway or planned in preparation for next season. What's up?

Woody

Winterplace (as per www.winterplace.com) is expanding their "teaching" area by 8x... really big expansion.

Pictures available @ their website.

that's relatively interesting. so they are chopping down the ridge beside the slow lifts; i hope they are also installing a new lift. I hate to get stuck down at the bottom of cascade and have either that crappy little double chair or those crappy long flat chairs to get back down to the parking. Maybe they can install another 500' of vertical while they are at it

I'm not sure if it was already posted but..

Liberty is disposing of the Dipsy Double chair and putting in a quad. I had received an email about it but couldn't find any more info on the website. This was the only double chair they had on the front side.

I was up at Bryce Resort this weekend and the local paper said that Bryce was going to spend $300,000 on snowmaking. Bryce was also going to remove a rope tow and add a magic carpet in the beginner area.

I've never skied Bryce, but $300k in snowmaking and magic carpet is pretty good for a small area.

For Bryce, this is HUGE. Being that Bryce is only 500' with a dozen trails or less, $300,00k in snowmaking improvements is like T-Line getting $2million in improvements. Currently Brynce just has snow making wands along all of the trails and I'm sure that is far from adequate from laying down bases during the breif periods of snowmaking in the Shenandoah Valley. If they can get a greater capacity system in place, I'm sure they could open sooner, weather warmer periods better and stay open later. They really do need some big fan guns and a system to pump 3x more water.