We’ve been hard at it since Thursday night making snow. This year we will have an insane amount of snow to work with barring any Sahara Desert heatwave in the next 13 days. Right now the plan is to hold the public jib arena up on the trail, it will still be hiking only and will cost $5…tickets are required..no exceptions. As it sits right now we have more snow up on the run than we have had any of the past 4 seasons for opening day. It’s mind blowing how incredible our new snow making system is. Even with it only running at 30-40 percent(because the power compnay still hasn’t given us all the power needed to run every gun just yet) it has put out 2 to 3 times as much snow as last years opening effort. With all of this snow we expect to build the public jib arena much the same as we would for opening day, only just not as long because everyone will be hiking. Before we get to carried away brainstorming ideas we’ll wait this week to see how much snow melts before we commit anything to paper. Check back mon/tues for an update, by that time we should have a really good idea of what will be setup.
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October 14th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Look how big that pile is! It makes that cat look pinner.
October 15th, 2008 at 11:57 am
wow thats alot of snow for not pushing out full power.. That would be so awesome if you were open by the first week of november!
October 15th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
so when are you guys plannin to open???????????
October 16th, 2008 at 8:40 am
ASAP!
The weather isn’t looking very condusive for snowmaking this week. I figure we need two solid nights to finish the bottom area where they were still working on the lift and we couldn’t make any as well as the top of the lift now that the power company has us fully juiced up top to bottom. So aside from a Sahara desert heatwave and a massive meltoff that where we stand. To help put things in perspective…last year we converted 930,000 gallons of water to snow for opening day, so far this year we have converted 2,300,000 gallons into snow. But because we had a few limitations because of the lift and power the snow is all concentrated rather than spread out right now. I think its safe to say that the opening day patch may be a think of the past.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:58 am
..as long as we continue to make snow like we did over the weekend once temps return in our favor.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
sick… cant wait to shred… looks good rosy