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[eatskisleep]

I find the line about having a new point of contact with the police department pretty funny

I’m still shocked “someone” complained about snowmaking.

 

[urungus]

I’m still shocked “someone” complained about snowmaking.

I suspect the “anonymous” complainer was the chief of police.

 

[jimmywilson69]

I find the line about having a new point of contact with the police department pretty funny

yeah that is funny and sott of confirms some of the things noted about the Chief are likely true. Again makes sense to have 1 point of contact between the 2 entities should things come up , especially given the adversarial nature of the past 8 months or whatever...

 

[Newpylong]

What was added previous season? Is that also in blue?

No net new for last season, just repairs. The largest being fixing the summit loop (Upper Black Beauty line(s)) and reconnecting them to Upper Maple with a new valve box at the summit. This is the blue line that goes off the top out to the right, then crosses the red and ties back into Juniper lower down. It's pretty critical to get another way down off the top besides Upper Maple.

The other thing we did this off-season was valving Galloping Goose (to Juniper). It wasn't run last year because it required manually moving pipe jumpers to connect it. Nobody wants to do that with bare hands in winter under a foot of snow. I think the plan would be to hit both it and Juniper when that line is run since they will have more pumping capacity this year.

As far as I know he wants to cover it all this year, guess we will see if there are hours for it.

 

[deadheadskier]

Adding Maple was a great choice. Surprises me that it didn't have infrastructure prior. It's pretty much the ideal blue cruiser the masses want.

 

[Newpylong]

It did in the past, it has just been disconnected for a so long time because it was buried and blew out so many times it became unfeasible to keep repairing it essentially was a non-snowmaking trail. The new pipe on it now is the new feed line up to the cabin and was routed a little differently (so it's on the correct side of the trail also).

 

[4aprice]

Found it interesting that we met a lift attendant that was wearing a helmet with a big Black Mountain sticker on it at Granby Ranch. Didn't get a deep conversation but she said she had worked at Black for many years and had lived in Gorham. I wonder if she made her way to Granby via Entabeni Systems who is based in Granby but doesn't have anything to do with the Ranch (except that they are on Indy Pass) that I know of. Granby incidentally took down the RFID gates they had up and were running a Entabeni system (printed clearly on the machines) with hand scanners.

 

[2Planker]

We have a whole bunch of anonymous complaints about Officer Perley and the Jackson PD.

F U Officer Perley.
Kiss my ass pal.