Official Snowshoe Webcams

Snowshoe finally got their act together and got an official webcam up on the mountain.  They have partnered with resortcams.com on the project and I think they’ve done a great job.  Link to the Live camera at Snowshoe’s official Site

• First of all it’s live video — so you can watch the skiers moving across the screen.
• One camera is mounted in the perfect location at Shaver’s Center which provides a great view all over the village slope area. — You can even see Mountain Lodge!
• One camera is mounted at the Boathouse at the base of the Ballhooter lift.  Check out the lake conditions and see how long the lines are at the lift.
• If the wind is blowing or the snow is flying, you definitely know it from the video.
• The video zooms and pans around to a few pre-defined points allowing a pretty good variety of views.
• You can go full screen to really get a feel for what’s going on.

Over the past few years, Snowshoe had been constantly criticized for not having a camera, but now, I’d say it’s probably one of the best set ups around.  Now it didn’t all go smoothly, they have very limited bandwidth up there and when they turned the cameras on for the first time I guess it slammed the system.  They have one other camera down at the base of Ballhooter at the Lakehouse, but that one is turned off still (as of 2/158/13).  They did a bunch of work and finally got the Shaver’s Center camera back up and going in such a manner that they are not using up all the bandwidth now.  We’ll wait to see if they can get the other camera back up.

Where else would you like to see a camera?  Western Territory?  Silver Creek? Soaring Eagle?  From the example picture I captured this morning, it looks like it is going to be a great day on the slopes today.

Shaver’s Center Camera

Boathouse Camera