urungus
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Today’s alpine update:
Here at the mountain, our crew is doing everything possible to get Magic ready for you on opening day December 18. As you've probably seen, there's not a whole lotta good snowmaking weather in southern Vermont yet. Today is in the 50's and temps at night are still very marginal. But cold temps will come and we are ready to get the guns fired up. Currently the snowmaking crew has patched a bunch of holes in pipes and is looking at Friday and/or Saturday night for a possible system start if we can get a decent 12-hour window.
Contractor work on both Red Lift and Black Lift have seen some delays--story of our life here it seems--but while frustrating, we keep focused on pushing to get this work done and our team will help as haul rope, fabricated sheave parts and contractors finally get here. The new 2 mile-long haul rope for Red Lift is being shipped by truck today and is set to arrive tomorrow (Friday) and we have a huge crane operator lined up to unload the 35,000 pound spool. Pfister is still waiting on a backing plate to install the drive which is also supposed to arrive Friday. Pfister Mountain Services has been clearing up work at other mountains so they can finally be here 100% through final installation of the Black Quad this ski season. The big skidder vehicle with boom they purchased to reach the tower arms will be undergoing repairs to the boom as Pfister picked up the part for that earlier this week. There is some final fabricating of parts needed to assemble the sheaves and then Pfister's crew can get them to Towers 13, 6, 7 for installation. The tower arm for 13 is also going to be modified in this process with a new plate. These are not projects that Magic can do "in-house" and we must rely on the qualified fabricators, lift contractors and engineers to do this work. Realistically, Red Lift work (new drive/haul rope/load-testing) will be completed first for opening day with the Quad to follow as soon as possible to help capacity on our big holiday and peak season weekends.
Today, our crew finished pouring the concrete for the counterweight footings at both bottom and top of the handle tow lift in the expanded beginner area. With temps in the 50s, it was a good day to pour. With blankets covering them, the concrete will cure over the next week and then Dan and Russ will be able to string the surface lift's haul rope and have the electrician hook up power, so that lift addition will be ready for opening day with new snowmaking on the two beginner trails there.
Here at the mountain, our crew is doing everything possible to get Magic ready for you on opening day December 18. As you've probably seen, there's not a whole lotta good snowmaking weather in southern Vermont yet. Today is in the 50's and temps at night are still very marginal. But cold temps will come and we are ready to get the guns fired up. Currently the snowmaking crew has patched a bunch of holes in pipes and is looking at Friday and/or Saturday night for a possible system start if we can get a decent 12-hour window.
Contractor work on both Red Lift and Black Lift have seen some delays--story of our life here it seems--but while frustrating, we keep focused on pushing to get this work done and our team will help as haul rope, fabricated sheave parts and contractors finally get here. The new 2 mile-long haul rope for Red Lift is being shipped by truck today and is set to arrive tomorrow (Friday) and we have a huge crane operator lined up to unload the 35,000 pound spool. Pfister is still waiting on a backing plate to install the drive which is also supposed to arrive Friday. Pfister Mountain Services has been clearing up work at other mountains so they can finally be here 100% through final installation of the Black Quad this ski season. The big skidder vehicle with boom they purchased to reach the tower arms will be undergoing repairs to the boom as Pfister picked up the part for that earlier this week. There is some final fabricating of parts needed to assemble the sheaves and then Pfister's crew can get them to Towers 13, 6, 7 for installation. The tower arm for 13 is also going to be modified in this process with a new plate. These are not projects that Magic can do "in-house" and we must rely on the qualified fabricators, lift contractors and engineers to do this work. Realistically, Red Lift work (new drive/haul rope/load-testing) will be completed first for opening day with the Quad to follow as soon as possible to help capacity on our big holiday and peak season weekends.
Today, our crew finished pouring the concrete for the counterweight footings at both bottom and top of the handle tow lift in the expanded beginner area. With temps in the 50s, it was a good day to pour. With blankets covering them, the concrete will cure over the next week and then Dan and Russ will be able to string the surface lift's haul rope and have the electrician hook up power, so that lift addition will be ready for opening day with new snowmaking on the two beginner trails there.
