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Question: Sun Valley
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Ski Diva Extraordinaire
I'm not understanding your question. They do have a lot of snowmaking but it looks like on their webcams they have a low snowpack as of now. They should have top-to-bottom skiing on the runs with snowmaking.
Also, intermediate is relative--at Sun Valley, their "green" runs are steep, their "blue" runs are like black diamonds elsewhere.
Also, intermediate is relative--at Sun Valley, their "green" runs are steep, their "blue" runs are like black diamonds elsewhere.
Thanks for your info about how their runs are steeper than many other areas. My question meant: do they need, for example, at least a 40" base to cover a lot of rocks, etc, like some ski areas? But if their snow is on top of just grass/weeds, they no doubt wouldn't need so much base.
Christy
Angel Diva
I don't know the specific number of inches they'd need from a storm, or from snowmaking, before they will open a blue groomer. But in general yes the ground is just kind of grassy not full of stumps and boulders like in the WA Cascades for instance. They don't get a lot of snow and keep things so that they don't need a ton to open, on the groomers. If you are trying to figure out when off piste intermediate terrain without snowmaking will be open, I wouldn't count on anything offpiste until later in January.
