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Snow in July
Tenney Mountain ski area, in Plymouth, New Hampshire, is blowing snow
right now, with temps in the 80s/90s. During this summer, it will be focused on tubing and boarding, not skiing. Looks like they will have an extremely early start to the ski season, starting October 1st, although some special events may happen late in September. http://www.tenneymtn.com/summer/glacier/ Once they get this new snowmaking equipment fully deployed, there may not be an off season. Happy trails, Gary (net.yogi.bear) ------------------------------------------------ at the 51st percentile of ursine intelligence Gary D. Schwartz, Needham, MA, USA Please reply to: garyDOTschwartzATpoboxDOTcom |
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Sue wrote:
Gary S. seems to be saying: Tenney Mountain ski area, in Plymouth, New Hampshire, is blowing snow right now, with temps in the 80s/90s. How do they keep it from melting? Blow faster than the temp sucks? |
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I believe Tenney is charging $20 per 2hour lift ticket...
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uglymoney wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:59:36 CST, lal_truckee wrote: Sue wrote: Gary S. seems to be saying: Tenney Mountain ski area, in Plymouth, New Hampshire, is blowing snow right now, with temps in the 80s/90s. I'd think that the unit would be more applicable to keeping a small path to the bottom of a high mountain resort open in the early spring and fall, when it would otherwise be impossible, and when revenue would be generated by the terrain above that allowed the use of natural or the far cheaper standard method of making snow. Not sure what areas would be good canidates. Perhaps A-Basin if it was in the center of Denver. If this thing really works, I can see our midwestern molehills using it to tack an extra month on at the beginning of the season. Conventional snowmaking requires the temperature drop below freezing to make snow, but if they could make snow once the temp drops into the 30s they could start blowing snow a month or so earlier. Round these parts, that could mean the difference between GUARANTEED snow for Thanksgiving vs. the current PROBABLE snow in time for Christmas. They could advertise it as 'Spring skiing in the Fall' or some such and fill the lodges when they'd otherwise be empty. I can see Boyne installing it along with an eighteen passenger chairlift. Perhaps Vail will raise their ticket prices to over $100 bucks a day, and add these truck like units all over their already clustered up mountain. It'll be over a hundred bucks a day sooner than you think, regardless of whether they adopt this new technology. -- //-Walt // Official Emeritus Official Beer Taster for Usenet // |
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On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:59:36 CST, lal_truckee
wrote: Sue wrote: Gary S. seems to be saying: Tenney Mountain ski area, in Plymouth, New Hampshire, is blowing snow right now, with temps in the 80s/90s. How do they keep it from melting? Blow faster than the temp sucks? Yes, they keep making more, and they are limiting the coverage area until fall. Snow makes a good insulator for itself. Happy trails, Gary (net.yogi.bear) ------------------------------------------------ at the 51st percentile of ursine intelligence Gary D. Schwartz, Needham, MA, USA Please reply to: garyDOTschwartzATpoboxDOTcom |
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