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Salmon Hills Call Before You Go
Drove 6 hours round trip to Salmon Hills today and it was huge
disapointment. The last 3 days put 20 inches on the ground. Their website said first to open in the East and 30km open and groomed. I got there at 11:00 am and the road going into the lodge hadn't been plowed. After skiing into the lodge we found none of the trails had been groomed. I told the manager I was royally f.... ****ed off after driving so far. I understand the owner wonders why they get less skiers each year....duh! Call before you go and cross examine the person who answers. |
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In article . com,
ADK Skier wrote: Call before you go and cross examine the person who answers. Did you try Osceola? According to their website they've got 20K open for skating, and so I ASSumed that meant that they were grooming and was planning on going up. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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Yes, we back tracked and went to Hugh's place. It was rolled but real
lumpy and uneven. I asked him if he was going to use the 4' Tidd Tech groomer tonight to smooth it out but he said he would try on Wed. Melinda Shore wrote: In article . com, ADK Skier wrote: Call before you go and cross examine the person who answers. Did you try Osceola? According to their website they've got 20K open for skating, and so I ASSumed that meant that they were grooming and was planning on going up. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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I took a look at Salmon Hills when it was in bankruptcy a few years
ago. I sensed the previous owner really worked at it, but just couldn't make a financial go of it. The grooming was considered excellent. I guess it's not easy when there is free skiing at a state forest nearby that is groomed on occasion. When the owner of the High Point SP, NJ XC ski area bought the place I assumed he would move up there and run things. Instead he has stayed in NJ and is an absentee owner (last I have heard). Very surprising since the NJ operation is small and hardly ever open in poor snow years, like last year. Some interim managers of the place really took the cake. They decided to charge more for weekday trail pases then weekend. Why? There were fewer customers during the week so they needed to charge more to make it worthwhile! The cross-country ski industry is one of most poorly run industries I have ever seen. ADK Skier wrote: Drove 6 hours round trip to Salmon Hills today and it was huge disapointment. The last 3 days put 20 inches on the ground. Their website said first to open in the East and 30km open and groomed. I got there at 11:00 am and the road going into the lodge hadn't been plowed. After skiing into the lodge we found none of the trails had been groomed. I told the manager I was royally f.... ****ed off after driving so far. I understand the owner wonders why they get less skiers each year....duh! Call before you go and cross examine the person who answers. |
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I had a somewhat similar experience years ago at another resort (also in Canada, hmmmm?) early in the season. I got there to find only a small portion of their system groomed because they claimed "not enough snow yet" even though there was well over a foot of snow on the ground. I came away with the impression that the resorts plan their grooming more around their booking seasons (lodging) than the actual snow conditions and since people usually don't preplan (and book)ski vacations when snow conditions may be questionable, the resorts don't ramp up their operations until the main booking season. Anyway, that's how I figured it.
Obviously that doesn't explain why their website said (and still says)the trails were groomed. However, looking at their site right now, maybe the fact that the main photo on the conditions page shows a skier on an ungroomed trail should have clued you in. http://www.salmonhills.com/conditions.htm Quote:
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When the owner of the High Point SP, NJ XC ski area bought the place I assumed he would move up there and run things. Instead he has stayed in NJ and is an absentee owner (last I have heard). Some interim managers of the place really took the cake. They decided to charge more for weekday trail pases then weekend. Why? There were fewer customers during the week so they needed to charge more to make it worthwhile! The cross-country ski industry is one of most poorly run industries I have ever seen. this is very unfortunate. Hans (the new owner) wanted to make a dream XC ski/fishing resort out of Salmon Hills. Apparently he hired wrong people to run the place. |
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'also in Canada' hmmmm? Salmon Hills was in New York State last I
checked. Dem darned Canucks been invading again? ;-) Parham (from Ottawa, Canada where I've been skiing on 'skier groomed' trails for almost a week now :-) trailville wrote: I had a somewhat similar experience years ago at another resort (also in Canada, hmmmm?) early in the season. I got there to find only a small portion of their system groomed because they claimed "not enough snow yet" even though there was well over a foot of snow on the ground. I came away with the impression that the resorts plan their grooming more around their booking seasons (lodging) than the actual snow conditions and since people usually don't preplan (and book)ski vacations when snow conditions may be questionable, the resorts don't ramp up their operations until the main booking season. Anyway, that's how I figured it. Obviously that doesn't explain why their website said (and still says)the trails were groomed. However, looking at their site right now, maybe the fact that the main photo on the conditions page shows a skier on an ungroomed trail should have clued you in. http://www.salmonhills.com/conditions.htm ADK Skier Wrote: Drove 6 hours round trip to Salmon Hills today and it was huge disapointment. The last 3 days put 20 inches on the ground. Their website said first to open in the East and 30km open and groomed. I got there at 11:00 am and the road going into the lodge hadn't been plowed. After skiing into the lodge we found none of the trails had been groomed. I told the manager I was royally f.... ****ed off after driving so far. I understand the owner wonders why they get less skiers each year....duh! Call before you go and cross examine the person who answers. -- trailville |
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I was at Camp Mericer, North of Quebec one New Year's. It was a
terrible early snow year, Craftsbury was without snow. The locals were complaining of no snow and it was up to the top of the picnic tables! I give Prospect Mtn. credit. They consistently run the longest season in New England, longer than Craftsbury. Of course they don't need the amount of business Craftsbury does to justify staying open. trailville wrote: I had a somewhat similar experience years ago at another resort (also in Canada, hmmmm?) early in the season. I got there to find only a small portion of their system groomed because they claimed "not enough snow yet" even though there was well over a foot of snow on the ground. I came away with the impression that the resorts plan their grooming more around their booking seasons (lodging) than the actual snow conditions and since people usually don't preplan (and book)ski vacations when snow conditions may be questionable, the resorts don't ramp up their operations until the main booking season. Anyway, that's how I figured it. Obviously that doesn't explain why their website said (and still says)the trails were groomed. However, looking at their site right now, maybe the fact that the main photo on the conditions page shows a skier on an ungroomed trail should have clued you in. http://www.salmonhills.com/conditions.htm ADK Skier Wrote: Drove 6 hours round trip to Salmon Hills today and it was huge disapointment. The last 3 days put 20 inches on the ground. Their website said first to open in the East and 30km open and groomed. I got there at 11:00 am and the road going into the lodge hadn't been plowed. After skiing into the lodge we found none of the trails had been groomed. I told the manager I was royally f.... ****ed off after driving so far. I understand the owner wonders why they get less skiers each year....duh! Call before you go and cross examine the person who answers. -- trailville |
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Salmon Hills Call Before You Go
I was once visiting family in Southern California and I went to rent a
car in LA, I gave them my driver's license and the guy asked me 'Is this a real license? How come it says Ontario on it?' (there's also an Ontario in Southern Cal :-) Parham. trailville wrote: trailville Wrote: (also in Canada, hmmmm?) Oops. I guess I saw Ontario mentioned on their home page. How was I to know that those folks out east named a little old lake after a canadian province. But the place I went was definitely in Canada, errr I think...um.... Oh yeah, funny lookin money, strange speed limits, mayo on the burgers, gravy on the fries, ketchup flavored potato chips, and they all thought I talked funny, yeah that was Canada. -- trailville |
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