Sundown was blowing snow all over the place last night, the word on the snow phone was that they were blowing it all day too.
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Which ski areas are still making significant snow?
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Sundown was blowing snow all over the place last night, the word on the snow phone was that they were blowing it all day too.
goldsbar
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Belleayre is still going for expansion.
I believe many ski areas will have to return their rental compressors soon which will limit the amount of possible snowmaking.
I believe many ski areas will have to return their rental compressors soon which will limit the amount of possible snowmaking.
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from their website, it looks like Wildcat is still making snow.
Newpylong
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I stand corrected then, lol. The ASC mountains have already blown their budget and are slowing down...
drjeff
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I will give ASC credit though, They've blown a monsterous amount of snow the past few weeks, and while you might debate the merits of making it where they did, they really showed their snowmaking muscle recently!
SkiDog
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I will agree that ASC put out a GREAT product especially on Killington with the weather mother nature handed them this season......BUT i would love to debate (and have feverishly on kzone) that WHERE they are/were blowing it is absurd.....
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All snow is significant!
Hunter doesn't really have anything meaningful left to expand onto...mostly beginner and intermediate terrain over on Hunter One that is rarely blown even in normal years. The only thing not open on the main mountain is 44 and that isn't going to get blown this year.
So, now they are increasing base on open terrain...Racer's got pounded all this past weekend, and now Minya is getting blasted with base deepening snow.
Hunter...still cranking out the snow.
Hunter doesn't really have anything meaningful left to expand onto...mostly beginner and intermediate terrain over on Hunter One that is rarely blown even in normal years. The only thing not open on the main mountain is 44 and that isn't going to get blown this year.
So, now they are increasing base on open terrain...Racer's got pounded all this past weekend, and now Minya is getting blasted with base deepening snow.
Hunter...still cranking out the snow.
Hah!
Just checked the website, you can add The Milky Way to Minya as trails that are getting more snow.
Just checked the website, you can add The Milky Way to Minya as trails that are getting more snow.
millerm277
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Sweet, that trail is always fun to ski, and not too heavily traveled.
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I know that during earlier visits to Hunter with you Jim that you mentioned the base is severely lacking from where it should be. How is the base currently as compared to this point in the season in years past?
Newpylong
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I def. agree. Killington has made an absurd amount of snow this year... but we all can argue about where it went !!!
SIKSKIER
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To my surprise,this morning Sunday River was not making snow and Cannon was.What?More just resurfacing Gremlin and making some on Parkway.Last week Cannon froze up the pipes on One of my favorite trails,Skylite.They were bosting about making it on Tuesday and I wondered why it had not opened by the weekend.I jumped the roped Saturday and found out why.They made very little on the top before freezing the line.This seems to happen almost every year.Oh well.
The Hunter site says current base is 20-70".
Usually we're at about 40-110" at this point. So we're still behind and it explains why they are on a base deepening mission.
MarkC
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Plattekill still has the guns going on northface.
millerm277
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Charlie Schuessler
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Making Snow at Loon
I was skiing through the snowguns all over the mountain at Loon today...
I was skiing through the snowguns all over the mountain at Loon today...
That thing is massive! I saw it parked behind one of the maintenance buildings last time I was there.
I'd love to see it in action, it must make a hell of a lot of noise!
MarkC
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Ah The Hedco world machine. I wonder what the GPM rating is to get that thing going at full blast.
millerm277
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Well, from what I've found....750 GPM or so.
The data below is from oldsnowbear, at www.snowguns.com
The inlet side of the World Machine barrel is about 5 1/2 feet in diameter and had a belt-driven 60" fan, powered by a dedicated 230 hp Mitsubishi marine diesel engine.
A second, identical engine powered the "snowcat", compressor, hydraulics, electric, and hydrostat system.
The barrel rotated (electric over hydraulic) 270 degrees.
The cat had an onboard weather system that would calculate wetbulb, and store up to 120 hours of past weather data.
The cat was built on a Thiokol (which later became DMC, then LMC groomers) 2100 chassis, and the rest was built from the ground up at the Hedco factory in Oakland, NJ. Pretty high-tech for the 1970's.........
Oh, Blue is building up as much base as they can, all across the mountain, pretty much snowmaking all the time.
drjeff
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Maybe we'll see this out again this year for some emergency base deepening. :-D
The realistic truth about that world snow machine vs. todays modern fans and the superior nozzle designs is that the output likely isn't that different, but the snow surface quality is VASTLY different. Anyone remember skiing on the man-made HEDCO snow back in the early 80's??? It had roughly the same surface characteristics as your standard hockey rink!
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