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Sad Pics of one of my local hills
 Poster: A snowHead
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I checked the web sites today to see if the local hills had their opening dates set.
They do! November 24th.

This is the web page of their Snow guns today November 5th.

http://www.caberfaepeaks.com/photogallerysnowmaking.html

How sad. Sad
Bring on the cold temps


Crystal Mt looks a bit more encouraging but the 50F(10C)temps today didn't help
http://www.crystalmountain.com/winter/index.cfm?fuseaction=skireport
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Hi SnowHot. I feel your pain! Had a look at some of the Pics there and there looks to be a lot of fan guns pretty close together and high pole mounted high pressure air/water guns - looks a fairly intensive snow making operation? Do you know much about the system, type of equipment. number of fan guns, number of fixed guns or any similar info?

I'd be very interested to know what the concentration of the number of guns is as at your local hill as it looks a similar sized area to the Lecht here in Scotland.

Also what is your climate like during winter, is it usually cold and dry so the snow sticks about or do you get a fair bit of fluctuating temperatures and freeze thaw cycles meaning they often have to top up the snow cover?

Sorry for all the questions but I hope you can answer a few of them, very interested in finding snow making situations that may offer an insight into the potential for much greater snowmaking effort here in Scotland.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Incidently the other side of the States isn't doing wonderful either - Kirkwood's opening day is in 12days.... Things need to change there too, but there is some hope of a storm bringing snow next week:

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Winterhighland, The good news here is that we are on a peninsula so we get some lake effect snow throughout the winter. Temps usually range from freezing point, below 30 degrees or so. Our ski season usually lasts from The last weekend of Nov through the first week of April.

As far as Caberfae Peaks snow making capabilities, they are a family run operation with minimal cash flow so I'm sure it is as good as they can afford.

Crystal Mountain, Michigan, tends to have some decent snowmaking capabilities, and extremely good coverage, but they have a 'bigger vision' for their money making capabilities.

This is Crystal Mountain last year, while the guns were going.

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