Legendary snowmaking?
That little catch phrase won't be around long if there isn't more consistency from one gun to the next. Never above 25 degrees all weekend and yet still blowing water everywhere the guns were running.
What happened to skiing under the guns all day being the next best thing to a powder day. This season, I avoid any trail that has snow making or large whale backs because of the danger and risk involved.
This weekend there were no excuses. Go back to the old formula and keep what worked best!
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Permalink Reply by pizzawedge on -
Skiing in the snow canons used to be my favor thing to do. Not this year the snow has been wet and when you ski through them you are covered in ice and water. This problem seems to be over the mountain not just one canon. Bring back the legendary snow!
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Permalink Reply by Yellowhelmet on -
Like MaryLou, we were impressed by SR's snowmaking and we didn't get wet either.
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Permalink Reply by peterk123 on -
Not sure what guns you were running under. We skied SP in the blizzard yesterday and it was dry. Not one drop of NCP on our goggles.
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Permalink Reply by 3ajr07 on -
The guns were a little wet on tempest, but that very minor misadjustment in the guns was far overshadowed by the sweet snow on the pig, and also many other trails across the mountain that held good snow,, risky, airglow, quantum
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Permalink Reply by RightCoastRider on -
Snow was surprisingly good to great in most places.
The guns on Tempest, snow was fine. Took 2 runs down Escapade at different times of the day. 1 at lunch the snow was fine. Came through again around 2:15pm and I was pelted by ice crystals and all that, so I know how you feel.
White heat was great. Obsession so so, and Cascades chunks of doom mixed in with death cookies and weird grooming.
I heard Jordan was nice, didn't get out there.
New set up in Starlight is really nice. Except I need to get past a "mental block" and just huck myself off that first jump. Couldn't bring myself to do it.
No lines at all anywhere. I actually walked right onto the Chondola cabins numerous times.
Sun was out, no lines, snow good = Goood day!
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Permalink Reply by bob r/vortex on -
I did get the snow to freeze on my goggles on Escapade. I hear your point. Kids and I laughed about it.
White heat was awesome. I heard comments from the lift of "this is the best I have ever seen it."
Escapade was good as well, really good on Friday when we were able to ski it. Punch was good. Amex was nice and soft on the left side.
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Permalink Reply by Wheeler on -
Phanga
Were these land guns, tower guns or fan guns (or all) causing the problem?
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Permalink Reply by Skiis Left on -
I agree with Tam H. Regardless of how the snow came out of the guns, I thought the conditions on Saturday and Sunday were awesome considering the effects of the weather on Monday and Friday last week. The guns were going Friday on Escapade, but not sure whee the snow was actually landing, probably Shockwave which I understand was in good shape on Sunday as well. Kudos to the snowmakers and groomers for the fantastic recovery from last Monday's slap in the face. Didi not ski a bad trail all weekend.
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Permalink Reply by SRskier on -
AMEX was some of the best snow I found on Sunday. Ending up doing it three times in a row..left, right and down the middle. I feel that is one of the best maintained trails on the mountain.
bob r/vortex said:I did get the snow to freeze on my goggles on Escapade. I hear your point. Kids and I laughed about it.
White heat was awesome. I heard comments from the lift of "this is the best I have ever seen it."
Escapade was good as well, really good on Friday when we were able to ski it. Punch was good. Amex was nice and soft on the left side.
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Permalink Reply by C Koch on -
We took the weekend off to get caught up on life (kinda wished we hadn't now). But I don't mind skiing under guns. IMHO, if the added moisture content means the MM snow will land on the trail and not get blown off into oblivion, then I'll take a little icing on the goggles. Usually, you can adjust your line or look the other way and avoid the worst of it.
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Permalink Reply by jerryg on -
This is usually the exact reason the snow is wet. If a trail is boilerplate, blowing a ton of powdery snow does very little good unless you can get it to stick. Often times, mountains will start out blowing snow that is wet so it bonds with the layer blow. They can then adjust the air to blow more powdery snow.
Then again, sometimes guns fail, but if it was wet, I'd be willing to bet it was supposed to be.
C Koch said:We took the weekend off to get caught up on life (kinda wished we hadn't now). But I don't mind skiing under guns. IMHO, if the added moisture content means the MM snow will land on the trail and not get blown off into oblivion, then I'll take a little icing on the goggles. Usually, you can adjust your line or look the other way and avoid the worst of it.
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