Boreal..

sorry..thats not possible.

I've added another guy to the night staff to combat the problem but its never gona go away. Parks can only take so much abuse before a cat is needed for maintaince. last sat I regroomed after the Rome contest at 3pm and by 5pm no one could tell and that was with 5 park staff on at that time. as the sun goes down and the humidity drops the snow turns to sugar and there is really nothing you can do to fix it for any period of time. We can fill in the ruts and the first persons that hits it blasts the new snow out of the ruts. we can close features for an hour to allow the snow to set but then we usually have to deal with some really pissed off obnoxius kids whinning that the feature is closed.

We are doing everything worth doing to make it better but ruts and sugary snow are just a part of night riding.

ERic

..and..

the one thing that will help is as soon as we are able to expand the night park further up the hill. that will spread out the riders on more features and lessen the wear and tear on the lips.

we will have about another 10 features in the upper park by Sat.

Eric

maybe you could close it from 4-5 or something, get everything fixed and let it re-set and everyone can go get dinner, then at 5, it's on like donkey cong? because on sunday the jibs were flat out unhittable, we had to go home because it was literally impossible for a skier to get on or off any feature safely, some snowboarders were managing because they were riding the groove in the takeoff and then landing in the rut, but we skiers have two feet to worry about and one foot in rut/one foot out = tweaked knee steeze. I'm sure spreading the features out will help the problem and hopefully it'll work out because the jibs you have up are awesome and way fun to rock out on when they're in good shape.

we did an hour groom on saturday, left it closed for 45min and an hour later you could never tell I regroomed it.

we you have soo many people hitting the features at some point its just done. until we get more snow and spread out there's not much else we can do.

we'll have around 30 features for this weekend..we'll see how much that helps.
until the other 2/3 of the mountain is open with enough snow so we can build out the other 70 or so planned features..nights are gonna be on the sketchy side. just too much traffic once the snow goes to crap at sunset.

Eric

night skiing is always a tough one....my local hill is always thrashed by the time night rolls around too. BUT, its a small hill and we hike a lot of rails so we just go grab a shover or even bring our own, maintain something, and sesh it.

On another note, keystone has relative good luck shutting down from 4-5 for night grooming.

Good luck, anyone here ride boreal days?

a night groom on that hit wouldnt be bad,the landing was pretty scary lookin the other night..but hey, i understand how hard it is to keep things in good shape at night. First you would have to justify the cost of night grooming. Some nights i dont think there are enough people to justify grooming it.

Anyone going up tonight (12/16)?? Lookin for people to shred with

Is anyone going tuesday? Ill be there on 05 scratchs a grey jacket and black pants. My names nik.

was tons of fun shredding on thursday, first time night skiing in like 5 years

what kept you off the hill so long?

theres no night skiing in mammoth

i saw u guys filiming with neil but i had to go take a final