Hv was very bad. Tiny tiny slivers of mud snow to ride through. They are closing for at least a couple weeks after today. 7springs has some nice.coverage on their trails but wagner is a mess. Very large areas of dirt today, yesterday it wasnt much better but ok for those with passes in pain from the lack of turns completed this year. I doubt they will remain open but maybe they can pull it out until the next cold snap. I feel bad for the families that booked stays at these places. Its heading into jan and im walking around doing work outside of my house in shorts. Whats next, snow in june? If I recall my pool heating bills last june were double because it was freezing last june. Sigh

I was about to post asking if anyone had tried either place. Does the bottom of Wagner where everyone has to go to get to the lift have as little coverage as the webcams show? Can't really fault them for the weather but at some point if people are on dirt I feel like they need to close. All the negative comments on Facebook confuse me...they are giving the best they can offer for the weather and it's kind of impressive they have gotten a week out of 2 days of snow making with these temps. Hopefully in 10 days this mud fest will be a distant memory....

 

Yes its actually worse. What you may see as white may actually be about 3 inches of watery slush. They are very close to being disconnected on wagner. At the top yesterday there was only about two skiers width to ride through at a point because of either mud or deep water. They are doomed to close. They missed about 20plus hours of snowmaking earlier this dec as they didnt want to lose it to the forecasted warmup. Now again here we are with alarming warm temps that my 94 year old friend says he had never seen anything like this. Lets hope this is a prefix to 10 years of dry powder dumps every evening.

These are the worst conditions where I have seen a resort remain open: http://www.7springs.com/ski-and-ride/mountain-cams/

Am not blaming 7S for the weather...it is what it is.  But to ask $60 for a holiday day pass for this?  On the other hand, they are not forcing anyone to pay, and it ilikely most season passholders slopping around out there.

This coming weekend as temps fall it will be a real test to show who has the best snow making. 

   

 

I suspect the cost is so high intentionally. I want to think the goal is to sell very few lift tickets....there is a low supply of snow, so lower the demand with the cost. I may be wrong...but they have to know what they have is worth less than $60

If you go out for a $50 dinner and all they bring is the rolls...how much should you pay?

Simple economics, "elasticity of demand".  Lots of people with plenty of disposable income wanting to ski and very limited supply of snow.  Unless the FTC steps in monopoly gouging is highly likely.

Another reason to keep slopes open, hotel occupancy.  You can ski if you want so no refunds?! 

I was quite pleased to see that SS initiated a liberal cancellation policy due to the snow/weather situation. Anyone know what the 7S policy was?

And another reason to go skiing in awful conditions, the whole family can go.  Not always possible later even on weekends what with kids activity schedules and other family commitments.