Goofy quesiton of the week - grooming

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Permalink Reply by Bodegahwy on February 5, 2009 at 6:02am

There is a grooming report available every morning in the base area so it is pretty easy to find out. My impression is that all the greens, abouot 90% of the blue and a handful of black runs are groomed every night. The blues that are not groomed are pretty out of the way. Maybe someone with more direct knowledge will chime in.

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Permalink Reply by Kup on February 5, 2009 at 6:04am

that's impressive that they can do that much of the mountain nightly! I wonder if they still do it when they get a good evening or night snow?

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Permalink Reply by Bodegahwy on February 5, 2009 at 6:49am

The do not do it again in the morning if that is what you mean.

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Permalink Reply by CrystalWA on February 5, 2009 at 10:00am

The grooming report is available on the Steamboat.com website on http://www.steamboat.com/trailsAndLifts.html
According to the website they groom 8 or 9 black runs almost every night and then they groom 3 or 4 additional blacks.
They typically groom 2 or 3 of the listed "blue/black" runs and about 40 of the 55 blue runs.

One error that keeps showing up on the grooming report on the web is that they never show Lower Concentration as groomed.

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Permalink Reply by CrystalWA on February 7, 2009 at 1:01pm

The grooming report on the web was exactly the same this morning as it was yesterday. That is the first time I saw that. I wonder if they forgot to update it.

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Permalink Reply by jensen on February 6, 2009 at 1:50pm

There are 43 trails groomed every night, no matter the conditions. Additionally, there are blues and blacks not part of those 43 that are groomed selectively. Today there was the nightly 43 plus another 26 that are not done every night. This totals 69 trails groomed last night or 42% of the trails.

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Permalink Reply by papafu on February 7, 2009 at 10:00am

Crusty? Did they say crusty? Wow! The skiing has been fantastic even with the lack of recent snow. Firm in places? Yes. But crusty? Not where I've been skiing. Come out and enjoy pre-spring skiing. Try it, you'll like it.

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