Mid-Atlantic The Neverending Timberline, WV: Info, Weather, and Stoke

[crgildart]

Mods - is this the correct thread for discussing possible Covid-19 impacts on TLM operations for 20/21? Would just be speculation and I don't want to take away from the positive energy being generated by the construction pics. I did find a general Covid-19 thread:

https://www.pugski.com/threads/official-covid-19-and-ski-travel-thread.19095/page-461#post-485616

So maybe the discussion should go there? Or would it be useful to have a TLM-specific thread for this?

There's actually another thread there discussing ski area specific CV19 mitigation and another thread announcing ski areas that are opening for sure.

Will ski areas be open in 2021 --partially--fully--or maybe not really

Hello--All; I hope you are all well and safe during this difficult time. As you all know-- there's been a lot of talk about how and when we'll open the country back up; when will we send children back to school, attend sporting events and so on.. I've checked the online universe and have...

www.pugski.com

When do we get to the point where every ski resort discussion involves some of the new or proposed mitigation measures?

 

[jimmy]

It would probably be best to keep all the Covid discussion socially distanced in the pandemic area

https://www.pugski.com/forums/pandemic-related-topics.124/

 

[WV RVA Skier]

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Three cement trucks have been pulled up so far. Seems like a lot.
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7 cement trucks went up yesterday. Should have pics in the next day or two.

 

[WV RVA Skier]

Pic from the top of six pack.

 

[WV RVA Skier]

8 new lift poles delivered today. I assume for the quad.

 

[The Colonel]

8 new lift poles delivered today. I assume for the quad.

Any sign of work beginning on snowmaking improvements?

 

[WV RVA Skier]

Any sign of work beginning on snowmaking improvements?

They have ripped a bunch of pipes out of the ground.

 

[Dos-Equis]

Does anyone know if they used to do night skiing? Hopefully they intend to implement it moving forward.

 

[pipestem]

They had night skiing, from the top. Good eyesight was essential.

 

[The Colonel]

Pic from the top of six pack. View attachment 103141

What is the thing with dark poles to the left of the lift terminal?

 

[jimmy]

Looks like that is where the operator cabin mounts

 

[crgildart]

Does anyone know if they used to do night skiing? Hopefully they intend to implement it moving forward.

They have night skiing on the Winterset side.. But, the top of Salamander, other side doesn't have lights. I think it was due to forest service requirements or something like that why they can't put lights on the top of Salamander.

 

[WV RVA Skier]

 

[WV RVA Skier]

Tearing off decking today. It had gotten pretty bad over the years.

 

[dbostedo]

Anyone know how much the lifts cost, and therefore how much is left to spend on other stuff?

 

[RickH]

My hope is less than $7mil. That would leave $3mil for snow making and lodge. I just received a letter from the water & sewer receivership that says the Perfects are investing more than $12mil in TM. They may be adding in the initial cost to buy the place in bankruptcy, but maybe they are spending over the $10mil? Maybe they received from funds from the Cares Act?

 

[crgildart]

My hope is less than $7mil. That would leave $3mil for snow making and lodge. I just received a letter from the water & sewer receivership that says the Perfects are investing more than $12mil in TM. They may be adding in the initial cost to buy the place in bankruptcy, but maybe they are spending over the $10mil? Maybe they received from funds from the Cares Act?

Under the present pandemic scenario, the lodge can probably wait another year for most of the renovations there. They really only need bathrooms working and a few other essentials. The way things look, they'll only need the lodge to handle half what it will need to handle when full capacity post COVID19 vaccine. Snowmaking and lifts now, nice lodge accomadations later.

 

[WV RVA Skier]

The lodge is missing some windows. There are a ton of workers this week. Were going to see some progress. I'm just not sure what all they will be working on

 

[WV RVA Skier]

 

[WV RVA Skier]

A few pics from today. They've been unpacking and assembling the lift pieces. We should see poles going up in the next couple of weeks. Also pic of zipline tower being hauled away.