Sounds like a nightmare to get properly labeled data… those NWS “trained spotter” reports would only go so far. Taken at different times, at inconsistent locations, tricky to account for drift and aspect.

If you know anything about the shenanigans Killington pulls with their snow stake, the flaws here would be very obvious. They report from a spot on the mountain that is not representative at all — the snow piles up there twice as deep as elsewhere. Their snow stake is a dirty liar.

Also, the best model this winter will probably be very different from the best model in an El Niño year.

> "hey live in this house I built and work for me. Here's your pay check, I'll have 2/3 of it back now"

You wipe 16 bums, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt.

Saint Peter don’t call me ‘cause I can’t go.

I owe my soul to the company store.

Nashua’s gotten several of those best places to live awards. The secret’s been out for like 40 years at this point. It also got expensive a while ago, and it was really only cheap because of the one-two punch of the dotcom crash and 2008. They should’ve been shooting in their backyards at 3am more often ten years ago if they wanted to stop it (as the memes tell you to do). Too late now.

There’s two types of people. One thinks Hudson or Grafton is trashy, the other looks at anything resembling a city and thinks it’s trashy. But never fear, everyone knows ManchVegas is trashy.

NIMBYs

Make it a pigpen.

Pretty sure the Jersey barriers you’re talking about were for outdoor dining during corona, so cagers didn’t flatten 20 people eating dinner because they were texting. The art was just to make them look a little less unpleasant.

It’s a nice building. I just wish it was housing instead, and they spent the $15 million on something better.

They don’t make aerial trams anymore either.

There are variations on gondolas that are highly resistant to winds, that are still much more affordable than a tram. See Palisades Tahoe’s Gold Coast Funitel for example. As windy as Cannon is, that place is far windier. Their funitel can operate in winds up to 100 km/hr (62 mph). I can’t find specs on the Cannon tram’s max wind speed, but the Sandia tram states that it cannot run above 50mph. I’d expect Cannon’s to be in the same ballpark.

I think the opposition would not be half as strong if the only local gondola (Loon’s) wasn’t such a massive piece of shit. The views are terrible, the uphill capacity is terrible, it’s always down, it’s just a terrible lift. Now that I think of it, every east coast gondola I can think of is an oddity in some way. I guess if I’d never seen a proper, modern gondola, I might oppose it too. But a tram sized budget gets you a really, really nice gondola. Not anything like Loon’s, or that ridiculous chondola at Sunday River (just… why).

My theory is that the pineapple thing was started by stoners who wanted to maintain plausible deniability.

Sununu isn’t involved with running WV anymore. He’s a governor now. You can argue he has some conflict of interest due to his family’s involvement there, but he didn’t decide on that chairlift. I don’t even like the guy, but this is just silly.

Also, your larger lift manufacturers have a backlog of orders for years at the moment. All the ski conglomerates were heavily investing in new lift infrastructure (likely to take advantage of rock bottom interest rates 2 years ago).

WV didn’t want to wait five years for their new lift. Smaller operations often go with smaller contractors. There’s really nothing to see there. Only time will tell if that lift becomes a huge problem. The Doppelmayer Kanc8 at Loon was also a fucking disaster in its first year. Takes time to work out the glitches, and they’re always behind schedule on construction lately…

FWIW, I think those Doppelmayer 8 packs are horribly over-engineered, and would be a mistake to install for an operation like WV. Those are going to have excessive ongoing maintenance costs. The giants don’t care (they can negotiate with the manufacturer at their size anyway), but that’s the kind of thing that makes an Indy resort go NELSAP.

Because it’s a really bad and impractical idea, honestly. Most gas generators don’t produce “clean” enough electricity to charge a car, unless it’s an expensive inverter. Forgive the oversimplification, I forget the proper electrical engineering terminology, but a regular gas generator will fry sensitive electronics. EV chargers will refuse to pull current from such a power source.

Gas generators run for hours on half a gallon of gas because you’re usually running a fridge, a furnace blower, and some lights off it. Average load of 100W or so? The Model X has a 100kWh battery.

There’s no free lunch here. A Tesla is only going to get 20 mpg or so when you account for the inherent inefficiencies to this process. You’re also carrying a lot of weight and volume for something that isn’t going to happen unless you’re an idiot. I don’t carry around a jerry can of gas in the winter. I just don’t go below half a tank. Same principle applies here.

The reverse process, where you use your car battery in a power outage as energy storage, is much more sensible.

If you insist on this, they have PHEVs that basically have a built in gas generator. And they’re usually cheaper, as they can get away with using a much smaller battery. Most driving is done for shorter trips, after all.

TLDR: the math doesn’t check out.

I mean, they unironically kinda are. EVs are heavy as fuck. Instant torque. AWD. Only trouble is the low ground clearance and the No season tires. Also taking it on a closed road, obviously.

Of course, but let’s be real, statistically, most people driving recklessly in snowstorms on NH interstates have MA plates. If only because there’s ~6x as many MA plates as NH plates in existence.

Jerry is a mindset, not a license plate.

Got a source, or just another hallucination of yours? They do plan to replace it, but not until 2026 at the earliest according to this: https://www.loonflightpath.com/

The only gondolas in NH are at Loon and Bretton Woods. Loon’s is such a POS, it shouldn’t even count. Wildcat is in Pinkham Notch. Wildcat has a scenic chairlift. Definitely no gondola. That place is decrepit, especially since Vail did a hostile takeover. Bretton Woods is in Crawford Notch. Saying those areas are in Franconia Notch is like saying Burke and Jay are in Franconia Notch.

This is a donkey brained take, honestly. Waterville and Cannon are not competitors in that way. They’re both partners on the Indy Pass. Small independent ski areas have nothing to gain by tearing each other down. Their number one enemy is Vail, who has formed a near monopoly on NH skiing and is generally considered to be the fucking worst by everyone.

The last thing Sununu wants to see happen is have Cannon (or Gunstock) fail and have Vail control another NH mountain. Hot take but Cannon is the only good ski area in NH. It would be fucking tragic to see those crooks ruin it like they did at Wildcat.

The only people that want to see Cannon and Gunstock fail are those Free State carpetbaggers.

There is nothing at Cannon for the Jerries that go to Loon. It is a completely different mountain, and one lift is not going to change that.

If only we cared so much about restoring our historic railroads, as we do about this archaic tourist trap.

Compared to gondolas, trams cost 10x as much and get 10x fewer people up the hill per hour. They’re also gigantic Petri dishes, and it bled money like a stick pig during corona (there will be more pandemics). They’re archaic and inferior in every possible way, although they would have to design the gondola properly to keep its scenic value for summer tourists (some gondolas are cramped and have poor views).

The pro tram people just have that insufferable allergy to any change whatsoever that’s endemic around here. This tram was built in the Reagan administration. It’s not the tram from the 1930s, and by that logic, why aren’t we using government funding to restore the historic rail access from Concord to Boston? They’re fucking hypocrites, that’s why.

Fuck trams, seriously. It’s like wanting to maintain the pony express when we could have the modern USPS instead.

The only trams that have any business staying around are the Big Sky and Jackson Hole trams, for very different reasons than the Cannon boomers give.

Sununu’s on team gondola because he’s not 90 years old and possesses more than the bare minimum understanding of ski lift economics.

This is why I prefer the backroads. I don’t care if they don’t plow. The shittier the roads, the better as far as I’m concerned. It’s the worst when it’s just shitty enough for all the flatlanders with bald no season tires to come out and play.

Nothing you can do if some masshole with 4WD and zero-wheel-stop in an adjacent lane fishtails straight into you. You can be a defensive driver all you want. You can be the best winter driver in a car that’s unstoppable in snow and ice. Make your whole driving setup winterproof, and winter will build a better Masshole to put you in a ditch anyway.

It’s Manchester. Not a town. Not like there’s anything there to devour either. What are you even talking about? Fucking moron.

My only complaint here is that they didn’t make it one story taller. No matter how tall it is, they should add one more story.