This will be my 26th year skiing WF and I have never seen the summit open to start the season. I think it was during Ted's days as Whiteface’s Manager that Mountain Run used to open before anything else. One year it was all bumped up on the first run of the season. That was fun but my legs sure hurt the nest day. It kept a lot of the "opening day speed demons" you get on opening day when Excelsior opens first waiting for something intermediate to open. I actually felt safer on bumps on Mountain Run that I did last year on Excelsior on opening day.
So much for being a “social butterfly” on The Mountain,
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