Industrial Winter part 2
— Posted by Mark on December 5, 2009
Cold is here as promised; very cold indeed. The last few mornings near zero with high temps barely making it to the teens. As we are now finally skiing and working out of the Summit, I've been meaning to tip my hat to those responsible. The snowmakers have a tough and dangerous job. They spend their shifts running around in the dark in sub-zero temps, working with pressurized water and air lines under the very loud and very wet snowguns. On years like this when we have 5 inches of natural snow at the Summit, we simply would not be working and you would not be recreating here without them. If you see the team in black coming off the mountain after their shifts or heading up the mountain while you are on your way to the bar, be sure to thank them.
the ridgetop west winds were cranking and it seems we are indeed in for a change in the flow pattern. The next week looks to be unsettled with a dusting of snow overnight, a larger storm Monday and Tuesday and another towards the end of the week. The last couple seasons mid and late December have been good to us. Remember the 36 inch Christmas eve storm last year? We can only wait and hope.
Arriving on the Dec 18, hoping to go full bore on arrival, how does it look?
Eric replies:
Jeff, I just posted our latest openings, a bit more help from Mother Nature would be nice, but we're doing all that we can!
— Posted by Jeff on December 8, 2009 7:30 PM MST
Hey, any chance of some more lifts opening soon? I plan to make a trip up there within the next couple of weeks
Eric replies:
LBC, we're opening Silverlode lift tomorrow and are moving down to King Con with our snowmaking efforts so that should open soon too...just needing a little more of the natural stuff to open other lifts!
— Posted by LBC on December 8, 2009 5:24 PM MST
Great to hear the snow is falling on time, any news about openings from the foot over the last few days. Thinking about flying in from AZ next week.
Eric replies:
Hi Jeremy, we're working (as Mark describes) as hard as we can to open terrain. It's just that we need more than the 8 inches of fluffy powder that we just got, so right now we're still only able to open terrain with man-made coverage. That said, we should have info on more terrain openings (w/man-made snow)in the next day or so!
— Posted by Jeremy on December 8, 2009 3:02 PM MST
Plenty of cold weather, now only if it would snow. Everyone do their snow dance!!
Eric replies:
Ditto!
— Posted by Michael on December 7, 2009 5:09 PM MST
What opens next?
Do we have a timeline?
And thanks for the hard work.
Eric replies:
Sorry for the wait on the reply Craig. We open Silverlode tomorrow and are currently working on blowing snow in the King Con area. Three Kings should open in the next week or so as well.
— Posted by Craig on December 5, 2009 12:49 PM MST