Tue Feb 02, 2016 11:00 pm
Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:28 pm
Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:35 pm
Thu Feb 04, 2016 12:28 am
Thu Feb 04, 2016 1:17 am
Thu Feb 04, 2016 6:52 pm
Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:49 am
egieszl wrote:Finally a Baldy thread! Thank you, thank you, thank you. I've been reading here and itching for a couple of years to have the opportunity to bash that hill! The lack of snow means there has been a drought on Baldy threads.
The place is so pathetically managed that they won't even post their base depth on the website anymore. No wonder too, because they don't have any base. In typical Baldy fashion a couple of weeks back they even claimed that the terrain beneath Chair 1 was open for skiing. Yeah right! A week after the storm they claimed it was still skiable, but to watch for rocks, obstacles, and you might have to walk in a few spots. What that translates to in normal ski area operations is a closed run with "no coverage".
The reports from a couple of weeks ago I found online sounded like a typical Baldy nightmare. Massive traffic jams, a giant mess in the parking lot, huge snaking lines at the ticket outhouse, employees who've apparently just arrived from Mars, and then a lousy experience to be had on the ski hill and more so, the tubing hill. Your typical Mt. Baldy situation- pissed off, ripped off people to be found every where.
It's even more pathetic to think about the investment they've made in their snowmaking infrastructure over the past decade with the promise that they'd be able to make enough snow on Thunder to offer a quality skiing experience. I don't get it, they still can't get Thunder open with man-made snow and with that water pond I'd expect the beginner hill to at least have wall-to-wall coverage, but it doesn't.
That place is so sad.
Fri Feb 05, 2016 12:22 pm
jojo_obrien wrote:Mt. Baldy has been a casualty in a warming planet.
Fri Feb 05, 2016 2:51 pm
Fri Feb 05, 2016 6:01 pm
Fri Feb 05, 2016 7:23 pm
snowave wrote:many of the lower elevation and/or latitude ski areas could be in serious trouble in the long term-. Some already are.
Mon Feb 08, 2016 11:05 am
Mon Feb 08, 2016 12:33 pm
Mon Feb 08, 2016 6:04 pm
Mon Feb 08, 2016 6:07 pm
Marc_C wrote:Looks like Baldy is closed through Tuesday:
http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/02/08/57291/mount-baldy-trails-closed-after-2nd-death-in-a-wee/