Las Vegas Ski/Snowboard Resort

Sunday was the last day open this season...wish I would have went.  Apparently the entire hill was over run by chicks in bikinis...

Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard resort is now offering Disc Golf.

I need to get up there to do some hiking. The heat down here has sucked all summer so far. At least today it is nice and cool with rain. Now if the rain would just go away so I can go shooting.

Looks like they are going to have a couple more new runs this season!

For sure.  They have a 12 year plan (ugh) to expand all the way up, but currently chair doesn't even go halfway up the top.  Base lodge is at 8510 feet, top of chair 1 is 9310 feet, but longest run is 3000 feet.   There is a good 2000 feet of hiking up.  It's not groomed, but they do avalanche control up there and it's a pretty clear open shot.  

NICE!  I've always wondered how those split setups worked!  But I haven't done the hike yet.  Natural conditions weren't great last season, but snowmaking covers all the main runs so we stuck to those.  I was thinking about just picking up some snow shoes to through in my pack to give it a shot.  We'll just have to see how the snow goes this year...

that is awesome, I'm so excited to see some snow

Originally posted by Shift4200 Curious where that shot was taken... it was cool in New England last night but not cold enough for snow.

Originally posted by MrMeaty Originally posted by Shift4200 Curious where that shot was taken... it was cool in New England last night but not cold enough for snow. You must have missed the title of this thread

Oh i saw it, but i thought to myself no way that LV has beaten other parts of the country to the first snow... i guess I stand corrected.

Crazy, right?  We were the first resort to open last season too.  they had installed new snow blowers and it just happen to get cold enough a couple weeks in October and blew enough to open the bunny hill for a weekend last october!  

Originally posted by RastaRider ^ the first resort where? A basin was the first resort to open in the country last season on October 13th, Loveland was the 14th. And once they opened it was for the season, not just a weekend. Unless you're talking about first resort in your area, which makes sense. Originally posted by Shift4200  Oh i saw it, but i thought to myself no way that LV has beaten other parts of the country to the first snow... i guess I stand corrected.   We've already got a few small snowfalls here too in the mountains, first one was around a month ago, but it's all melted the next day. I kinda hope the big snowfalls hold off til later this season, we had a 15" storm come through last October that made the backcountry snow really unstable the whole year.

We had similar on/off snow here in the east last year too.  Rode on Halloween weekend in good coverage, then it melted to nothing... again for Thanksgiving, and again gone before I even left VT for the weekend.  In fact on Tday, we rode in some pretty heavy falling snow... would fill tracks before you could lap the mountain.  Shame it was gone in a matter of hours.

I too hope that all this early snow is a good sign for the winter to come. 

Its kind of crazy at the amount of people who choose to visit Vegas during the summer..when it is 1000 degrees.

Yup...it's finally dropping temps.  Got a little bit of clouds and snowmaking is in full force for opening day next weekend!  I was really impressed with how much coverage they got blowing snow last year, and this year they cleared a few more trees to make more runs.  Should be good...

I'm surprised that they did not raise their prices with all the improvements they did.  

I went up on Thursday.  We have had 0 snow, so it's all man made, but they do a great job with it.  No trees and nothing off the groomers cause it's rock, but they did manage to put up a couple rails and boxes, and even got 2 little hips and 2 decent size kickers out of it.  Best part, since they only have the 1 main lift running (out of 3) they are charging pre-season prices which is $35 full day.  Considering it's the only lift you really want to use anyway, it's a good deal.  

Got another foot of snow...this Saturday is going to be awesome!

Originally posted by | | | bryman | | | Have fun Meat I'm going to make it down there soon I promise   -b