Mapnut
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I don't see why Magic would need to pump water from some distant stream. Looking at the topo map, three streams draining most of the west face of the mountain - about 700 acres - converge at the larger of two ponds downstream of the base lodge. I don't know for a fact that they own that pond, but if it could be enlarged to about 20 acres, an average of 10 feet deep, that would hold 200 acre-feet of water. 200 acre feet is probably enough to make 2 to 3 feet of snow on a hundred acres (roughly 10 miles) of slopes. And the pond would refill somewhat even in winter, especially if they got rain and had to re-make their base.