Preamble, I wasn't even going to go I was headed elsewhere out west, but I relish storms around here.
I got to Beech at about Noon, the storm was still 12 hours away as it turned out
I experienced the new conveyer system, which is intended as a way to make it easier to load and then to increase the speed of a fixed lift since their is already movement on the load in.
One of the high lifts at Alta uses this effectively, and folks have gotten used to it at Massanutten. In the Southeast how effective this is compared to the high load speed out west I really don't know. I have been on this site for a little while and I wish I had done recordings of lift speeds over the years. Sugars detachable quad in the same neighborhood is fast and reliable and I wish that Beech would have done a similar full upgrade, but oh well there it is.
Anyway I saw and skied with Mademoiselle la Skipink, and that is always a good day
I left beech and that night skied at Sugar with Kendog and KillGlobalWarming
Gunther will not stop guns EVER
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Next day, just what we want to see
and now my pictures get random, it was fresh powder but the blowers still never stopped, visibility was a mess but we were on Gunther's Way around rope drop. Tom aka Carvebeast (he's pretty good) also drove up for a day, and I met JT3 as well, it's great to meet people from the messageboard, it seems active again.
It was a good beginning
