The "Sugarbush Thread"

[machski]

Or you do what SR does on lower MM/Race arena and have a buried pipeline mid trail that you uncap and install hydrants early season to make the far side and then remove and recap the hydrant connections when done. Always have felt this is labor intensive but that's what they do. Gets that full width open for racing quite quickly though.

 

[Newpylong]

That is extremely resource intensive. Wrenching off hydrants and then capping threadolets above ground in the summer is a PITA, forget below grade in winter.

If it's really an issue the easiest and most cost effective solution is just to run enough house out to sleds until the far side is done and then you pull them off the hill and swap over to the towers.

 

[Dickc]

That is extremely resource intensive. Wrenching off hydrants and then capping threadolets above ground in the summer is a PITA, forget below grade in winter.

If it's really an issue the easiest and most cost effective solution is just to run enough house out to sleds until the far side is done and then you pull them off the hill and swap over to the towers.

Sunday River also moves the post mounted tower guns to the middle of middle Sunday Punch below the mid station until they have made enough snow on the far side, then moved the guns back to the edge and pull the posts until the next season. I've always thought it seemed like a lot of work, but they do it every year.

 

[machski]

Sunday River also moves the post mounted tower guns to the middle of middle Sunday Punch below the mid station until they have made enough snow on the far side, then moved the guns back to the edge and pull the posts until the next season. I've always thought it seemed like a lot of work, but they do it every year.

Actually, I don't think they did last year. And it would not surprise me to see SR use Cascade as the early mid-bottom route now, especially given that is now the main upfeed and has mostly Klik hydrants. Might as well test that out this year, if Barker is changed out next summer, they may need that if work is ongoing with the install early season next year.

 

[Hawk]

The tower guns are all in on Easy Rider and Pushover. Here are a couple of pic for the snomaking gear geeks.

 

[doublediamond]

What temps do banks 2 - 3 - 4 turn on?

 

[drjeff]

What temps do banks 2 - 3 - 4 turn on?

Cold, colder, and really cold!

 

[Newpylong]

Here is the flowchart I had for our Impulses with 5 stage shifter. Never used a Klik but you can infer when the 4 different stages would be used by looking at the 5 stager.

 

[jimmywilson69]

Looks like they went klik system

 

[cdskier]

Looks like they went klik system

They started that last year at ME on Northstar with the new pipe/hydrants/guns they put in over there. I guess they were pretty happy with the results!

 

[HowieT2]

Hope those new guns work in marginal temperatures. Next couple of weeks look warm.

 

[Newpylong]

Why would they be making snow there in November?

 

[ducky]

Why would they be making snow there in November?

They really need beginner terrain as soon as temps allow.

 

[SteezyRob]

i doubt they devote november snowmaking to village run. unless it's a great snow year, that would be so lame of them.

 

[tumbler]

They never devote snowmaking to village run

They do try to get beginner terrain open very quickly though.

 

[djd66]

They don’t even have snowmaking on the village trail

 

[Tin Woodsman]

Rookies.

It's Jester>Downspout at the start pretty much every year, unless you get a strange temp set up in which case they may opt for VH Traverse>Snowball>Spring Fling or variants therein (e.g. w/o VH Traverse and running via VH lift). They don't start blowing snow on the GH pod until they're comfortable that the basic cruising way down from the summit to base is blown in for the season. I'd generally set December 1 as the over/under for when snowmaking begins on GH b/c they do need to get the seasonal/lesson programs going before Xmas break.

 

[cdskier]

Rookies.

It's Jester>Downspout at the start pretty much every year, unless you get a strange temp set up in which case they may opt for VH Traverse>Snowball>Spring Fling or variants therein (e.g. w/o VH Traverse and running via VH lift). They don't start blowing snow on the GH pod until they're comfortable that the basic cruising way down from the summit to base is blown in for the season. I'd generally set December 1 as the over/under for when snowmaking begins on GH b/c they do need to get the seasonal/lesson programs going before Xmas break.

Ever since they put the new pipe and guns on Spring Fling they've made that the goal to open first IF temps cooperate. Jester->DS is the backup plan when temps down low aren't good. And then the past couple years they started prioritizing a GH route earlier in the plan to help spread people across multiple lifts and keep beginners off Super Bravo.

 

[Tin Woodsman]

Thanks for the correction. What did the GH route displace in the sequence? Mid/lower OG? Murphy's

 

[Hawk]

Yup that is how it basically went last year.