VPR Talks with Jay Peak's Steve Wright and Efficiency Vermont about Snowmaking

[thetrailboss]

Some interesting comments and information.

Ten years later: how 'low-energy' snow guns have changed Vermont's ski resorts

Learning more about snow making with Jay Peak Resort and Efficiency Vermont.

www.vermontpublic.org

 

[thetrailboss]

One Jay skier called in to say that Can Am no longer gets snowmaking? That is news to me.

 

[thetrailboss]

And I am looking at a recent Jay trail map. What the hell does "Area of Gravest Concern" mean? Boundary lines that are hard to determine?

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[kendo]

Some interesting comments and information.

Ten years later: how 'low-energy' snow guns have changed Vermont's ski resorts

Learning more about snow making with Jay Peak Resort and Efficiency Vermont.

www.vermontpublic.org

Interesting listen. Didn't know about the Efficiency VT org and their $5M support for Low-e use in 2014. Would be interesting if they put a similar statewide program in place to support Automation investments.

 

[kendo]

Along the same lines, here's a recent article on snowmaking at Smuggs, Stowe and MRG (say it ain't so!).

As climate changes, making snow key to resorts - VTDigger

Vermont’s ski mountains are not just making more powder, but also fine-tuning where, when and how snowmaking machines are deployed, and how the snow gets moved around after it’s made.

vtdigger.org

 

[BenedictGomez]

As climate changes, making snow key to resorts

I'm genuinely amazed there are people stupid enough to believe this. Even if the AGW hypothesis is 100% spot-on in every facet (and we know it isnt given empirical results thus far), it hasnt made much of a difference to snow levels yet. Nor will it in 10 years, or 20 years, or 30 years...... Climate change needs serious time to effect "change", much longer than a human skiable lifetime.

 

[BenedictGomez]

What the hell does "Area of Gravest Concern" mean?

If you go off map in this area, you're far more likely to be F'd.

 

[thetrailboss]

If you go off map in this area, you're far more likely to be F'd.

I thought that might be the case. Seemed like an odd way of framing it.