The "Sugarbush Thread"

[Rob Katz]

say la vee

 

[GopherControl]

La vee!

 

[Lotso]

Josh Fox starting up tomorrow with Weather blog

 

[Blurski]

Look at this unannounced capital project:

 

[solar]

That one I can get behind - local company, probably did it for free for name exposure, etc. ...but can they at least mount it perpendicular to the camera?

 

[ducky]

 

[Plowboy]

I think Sean spends winters in Hawaii now!

 

[Lotso]

Look at this unannounced capital project:
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Someone in Coprorate removed the Yestermorrow sign

 

[Blurski]

Someone in Coprorate removed the Yestermorrow sign
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No free advertising for anyone

 

[1dog]

Someone in Coprorate removed the Yestermorrow sign
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But not Big Foot!

 

[Lotso]

But not Big Foot!

Now nothing but Bigfoot

 

[ducky]

The YM in the top right is Yestermorrow's logo. Presumably, they donated the new snow stake.

 

[thetrailboss]

No free advertising for anyone

The YM in the top right is Yestermorrow's logo. Presumably, they donated the new snow stake.

Exactly. How dare a local business/entity take advantage of Alterra!

 

[solar]

Maybe they'll include snow stake logo rights as an add on to the Reserve Pass.

 

[thetrailboss]

Maybe they'll include snow stake logo rights as an add on to the Reserve Pass.

I was going to say that!

 

[Lotso]

Guns on again, which is good.

And it looks like it was just bad light in last photo; Sugarbush logo back on stake.

 

[Lotso]

Kills me to see the tower guns on Downspout just sending snow into the trees...

 

[vtski802]

Kills me to see the tower guns on Downspout just sending snow into the trees...

If they're running wet, they are either "building a big spring base" or hydrologging the trail edges to maintain width.

 

[fulgoreXC]

If they're running wet, they are either "building a big spring base" or hydrologging the trail edges to maintain width.

That’s the problem with making snow on downspout. Wind is always going the wrong direction. It’s perfect when you leave it and wrong when you get back. The towers can only be turned so much. And if they’re too much into the wind… it gets expensive. Hydrologging is byproduct. The mid station temps suggest not much conversion is happing right now.

 

[Newpylong]

It also doesn't help that Snow Logics only send product where you want it when the wind is zero. The pipe is also on the wrong side for half of the trail. I would have moved them somewhere else and replaced with Impulses after one season with them there.