late season

[supertrooper12]

does bear creek have the capacity to blow so much snow with these incredibly cold temps, that they will be able to stay open until april?? i was told that the snow blowing is very light right now due to the water in the pond reaching empty is this true?

[toast21602]

thats what Mark said. 10-12 hours of blowing is their max capacity and then they have to take 12-14 hours off... i'm pretty sure he said something along those lines.

[BC-Mark]

We are making snow in our "refresh mode" where we make from 10PM to 7AM to allow the ponds to recover. It usually takes about a week of this to allow them to come back up to a level that would allow for 24 hours snowmaking.

 

At this point in the season it is much tougher to sell 24 hour snowmaking to guests who complain bitterly when we make snow on them so we tend to only make snow at night unless we have a major thaw.

 

With the temperatures over the next 10 days, even with 9 hours snowmaking shifts we will be able to stockpile a lot of snow. We will continue to make snow and stockpile as long as we can with the hopes of extending the season as long as possible.