heres what mount snow said in their most recent email:
Here’s a little background on how we came up with this strategy. To date we have only had six hours to make snow at the base of the mountain. With rain in the forecast for tomorrow and this combined together it would be impossible to put together what we consider a high quality experience for Saturday. Now Friday and Saturday are looking good for making snow (at least with current forecasts), so we are going to blast the lower section of the mountain to get it up to speed with what we have up top and give you one heck of a high quality opening for those first turns of the season.