The NEW Magic Mountain

[AdironRider]

Hey at least it didn't take over five years to install them.

 

[slatham]

FYI the guns on LMC (at least the ones on the section between Medium and the turn before Vertigo) are newer, rust color HKDs. They removed the towers from “Through the woods” and those might be them.

 

[Newpylong]

There was a handle tow in the Black Mtn parking lot from Magic when I was there. Did they give up on the Little Dipper tow?

 

[skithetrees]

I don’t know. I always thought a tow in the beginner area was pointless. The lift that used to be there 30 years ago was perfect

 

[RustyGroomer]

More like 50 yrs ago but yes, the Green chair was a perfect beginner area.

My 1st "turns" ever were made there.

 

[skithetrees]

As were many of mine. And I’m about equidistant from 30 and 50

 

[Newpylong]

Not 50 years because the '87 trail map has the green double there.

 

[jaytrem]

Liftblog says it was there until 1991. Standing until 95-96 according to newenglandskihistory.

 

[RustyGroomer]

I guess I was just referencing my time spent over there. Not the life span of the lift. My bad.

 

[IceEidolon]

Apparently the new single stage sticks got new nozzles within the last couple of seasons.

 

[doublediamond]

15 added to the bottom of LMC.

There's a difference between replacing warm nozzles, and replacing with nozzles more suitable to the wet bulb temp bracket you're aiming to make snow in.

 

[slatham]

Unfortunately unable to load pics. Some of the new K guns on LMC are lowered and appear to be getting new nozzles - not heads, but the little 1” nozzles that screw into the heads.

I did not hike and count guns on Show Off, but looking up trail there is an unbroken TTB line of towers. As for Lower Magic Carpet:

Downhill of Sunshine Corner value house on “Middle” Magic carpet are 9 Impulse Towers.

Downhill of 33 1/3 intersection on LMC are 7 “K” towers.

Downhill of bottom intersection of LMC and Vertigo are 6 “K” Towers.

These are all relatively wide sections, and as expected there are none on the narrow/lower runout of LMC.

I also counted:
4 rat snow giant sled
6 baby rat sled
22 baby rat tripod
5 Impulse HKD sleds
14 Impulse HKD tower sled

Bottom line, they have the equipment to have several runs from top to bottom set up and ready to go once they get temps.

Of course my goal was to check and work on some glade lines and wow there are some sweet ones set up for this winter!

THINK SNOW !

 

[Tin Woodsman]

Genuinely excited to see what Magic can do this early season now that the specter and distraction of the Black Quad drama is behind them. That had to pre-occupy a lot of their time and mindshare. Now if we can avoid another 100 year flood between now and opening day, we'll be cooking with gas.

 

[Smellytele]

Genuinely excited to see what Magic can do this early season now that the specter and distraction of the Black Quad drama is behind them. That had to pre-occupy a lot of their time and mindshare. Now if we can avoid another 100 year flood between now and opening day, we'll be cooking with gas.

Cooking with gas will be illegal in a few years so do it while you can.

 

[drjeff]

My prediction is we'll be hearing about either the need for more water pumping capacity and/or snowmaking holds for pond refilling (should Mother Nature give a LONG run of constant snowmaking temps) this season.

With so many systems of low and even mid e guns today, the "strength" of a system isn't just how many guns can you run at once, but how much water you can pump for say 5 to 7 days (potentially) in a row through those guns to open/resurface terrain as quick as possible. Fixed guns certainly make start up and shut down more efficient, but how long you can keep that system running at close to, if not full pumping volume is what really matters, especially as it seems like "good" snowmaking windows are both less frequent and shorter in duration, especially in the early season now

 

[slatham]

Well AZ is up and loading pics. New “K” guns.

 

[Newpylong]

Okay now that I see them those are actually SV6s. Identical to Rangers except the nukes are in the middle vs the bottom. Came out after the Ranger.

 

[machski]

Okay now that I see them those are actually SV6s. Identical to Rangers except the nukes are in the middle vs the bottom. Came out after the Ranger.

Those were the conversion heads for original SR7 towers that swapped out the old SR7 heads, yes?

 

[jimmywilson69]

I wonder what K let those go for. Hopefully almost nothing or actually nothing you come and take them down kind of deal.

 

[icecoast1]

I wonder what K let those go for. Hopefully almost nothing or actually nothing you come and take them down kind of deal.

Can't imagine they'd be worth much. Why would a place get rid of them then when they are spending hundreds of thousands on new guns?