If you've got internet have you thought about weather station?
No experience with measuring snow fall but would be interested in having a go...
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
The webcam will be accompanied by a weather station. Quick update. We're not running yet being as the weather has kept us of the hill the last few days but the rope is now spliced, we dug a trench for the return wheel inside the engine shed before the ground froze up and someone also got to tow our broken down quad bike off the hill
I'm also waiting for a nutcracker to be delivered from NZ.
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Right then, snowheads, I've come-a-begging. As per the above post, and admin's excellent suggestion, the crowd funder for a weather station and webcam on Lowther Hill is up and running so we're looking to get enough weather geeks, ski freaks, and webcam peepers to cough up a few quid to get this installed ASAP. If we go over our goal, any leftovers will help us buy a few more metres of portable snow fencing.
I've used 'justgiving' as most of us in the UK know & trust the site. Sadly, unlike the US crowdfunding sites, there's no paypal option but justgiving charge less fees, and it only takes a minute to stick in your card details anyway.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
Contribution made. Only about £150 to go before the target is reached. A small contribution from 15 people is all that's needed now. Of course, a bit more would be nice
Ski the Net with snowHeads
Ski the Net with snowHeads
Thanks JohnHSmith, much appreciated
As you say, the sooner we can reach target, the sooner we can go live, and if we can get a bit more, we'll spend leftovers on more snow fencing.
This is part of Weardale's power generation provision for their set-up ...
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
Bunged in a small sum good luck with it.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
Thanks very much, TBar
And thanks to all snowheads that made a contribution. It's absolutely brilliant that so many folk have dug into their pockets to support the project
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
Just a wee update on the fundraising. We actually exceeded our goal and winterhighland is expecting delivery of the kit for us any time now
Here's a bit of video from Wednesday and a few photos too. Apologies for the video clip's funky look. I took it handheld with a wobbly pocket camera and it was uploaded by Anjo with the auto-stabilise function at youtube. His music choice too. Probably a good thing ...
And after some unforeseen delays in the engineering work, we connected the engine and bolted down the return wheel yesterday ...
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You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
Keep the effort going ross!
Maybe you should set up a new justgiving fundraising page for a new pistenbully
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
It's a never-ending effort, Peter. We've made good progress though, and more than a few doubters are already eating their words.
A piste basher costs a lot more than the webcams/weather station and I'm not sure a 30 day crowd-funder would get the same level of support. Of course, we don't have to remain the only ski area in England or Scotland not to receive 'public' or 'lottery' money help towards what we need ...
Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
Today we finished building the ski lift
Installing the return guide
Laying out the rope
Fixing in the tensioning wheel
Tensioning the rope
Hanging the rope
Monkey business
The final tower
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
We put a 'temporary' building on the hill yesterday for use as a shelter and club hut. Longer term, we'll either do our best to clad it in the style of a traditional Alpine lodge or get ourselves a purpose built one. We're hoping to get the webcams and weather station up and running later this week, courtesy of Winterhighland's expertise and funded by the kind donations from the public. We also span the rope tow for the first time yesterday which was a brilliant and very exciting experience ... I recorded some video which will be uploaded to the club website probably tomorrow.
A few pictures from yesterday, there was even some skiing done ...
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Wee bit of video from last weekend, including the ski tow's first test. Anjo has overlaid it with Kool & The Gang, takes me back to school disco days
Whilst it seems everybody else was in the Highlands enjoying the best skiing of the season, we've had five days straight on Lowther Hill, drilling, cutting, fixing, wiring and networking data across what seems like the most erratic mobile coverage in Scotland. But touch wood (and we've done a lot of that since Wednesday), we're now on-line with 2 automated cameras looking down the hill across the club's ski slopes on Lowther Hill itself, all powered by just the sun and communicating to the world via mobile phone masts somewhere out there. We couldn't have done it without the dedication and expertise of winterhighland, and the Public's donations that bought the hardware to make it possible. We'll test the mobile networks over the coming weeks to find the most reliable operator, add the live weather feed and extend the camera network to include a view up from the club house too.
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Poster: A snowHead
Quick update. We're not running yet being as the weather has kept us of the hill the last few days but the rope is now spliced, we dug a trench for the return wheel inside the engine shed before the ground froze up and someone also got to tow our broken down quad bike off the hill 
As per the above post, and 
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