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No, they're all done for the year at Loveland because their system is 1,293.2 times larger than Killington's.
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Late October Snowmaking?
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No, they're all done for the year at Loveland because their system is 1,293.2 times larger than Killington's.
Pretty good. It goes back and forth between packed powder and compacted spring snow, depending on the day and the previous night's snowmaking.
Guns are still roaring away. Had a couple of days they blew straight through I think we had one good 36 hour run. Mostly just nights, though. But our lows have consistently been in the mid teens for about two weeks now.
Dude, lets just turn this whole thread into a postwhoring hijack. I really want a new mountain, but without the whole thinking part.:beer:
Snowman, you're wrong. It's 1,293.37 times larger. If you can't get your facts straight, don't post at all.
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Nice! i'm packing my stuff now. Hit the road in a week.
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I'm skiing out there Dec 3-10. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to fly out, or drive out and tow my 32 foot boat... so I can get angry at the stupid poor people working in the toll booths. :lol:
Where are you skiing?
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I would just like to mention that this thread is now the 15th most popular in the skiing forums (based on # of replies). I just knew I was on to something here.
:lol: you left the door wide open with that uber-pinpoint-statistic :wink:
Don't worry, Greg... it won't take long until it's #1!!!
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Well, http://forums.alpinezone.com/3821-guess-ski-area.html has 1,681 replies so we have our work cut out for us...
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ROFL......again, more proof that you are full of it, and yourself.
EVERYBODY made snow last year and lost it....DUH. EVERY major resort. The first weekend in November.
I'm looking at my pictures of Sugarloaf from 11/21/07 last year, at around 1pm on a Tuesday. That afternoon, it was pretty cold and they had guns running all the way up and down Tote Road, plus a couple other trails next to it and above it. K2000's, Rangers and other tower guns. I'm guessing around 60-100 guns, from what I count in the pictures. If you assume 80 guns, at a flow rate of 40 gpm each, that's 3200 gpm. Could be more could be less...it's just an estimate. Did they have enough compressor capacity...at 200 scfm per gun, that would be 16000 scfm....maybe, maybe not....maybe they didn't need that. Anyway, at around 3,000 gpm, it would take around 35 hours to make 35 acre feet of snow, the low side of my estimate for the amount of snow they made on tote road.
Killington fired up their guns down to the K-1 base at around 6pm on that previous Sunday 11/19. I know because we were there watching them do it. They had been making snow higher up a bit previously. Anyway, I don't find it hard to belive that Sugarloaf started some time that weekend (fri-sat), and officially opened monday afternoon, after about 2 or 3 days of snowmaking. They probably got in their best production on sunday night and monday night.
Anyway, stop making it sound like they had to make snow for a week to open Tote road. That's PURE BS. It was 2-3 days at most. If you have any REAL info, please post it up. Otherwise, stop spewing your BS.
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It's up in the air. We were originally going to fly into Gunnison and ski at the Butte and around there, but we couldn't get 2 seats into Gunnison (really small plane). Got tickets for Denver, gonna maybe do something around there for a day or 2, then maybe do the Butte or something else for 3 or 4 days and come back and do 1 more day near Denver on the day before leaving. Probably just hit up whoever has the best product available. If anyone else is heading out. rental cars are dirt cheap on Expedia for that week right now. Just booked a full size for under $150 all in.
Ohhhhhhh, we can do it!
Speaking of the guess the area thread, it's about time to resurrect that one. If only I had a good pic to post.
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Post whore.
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