Snowmaking is the production of snow by forcing water and pressurized air through a "snow gun", also known as a "snow cannon". Snowmaking is mainly used...
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installed seven new lifts, increased snowmaking by 300%, and built a sixty-three million gallon reservoir for snowmaking. During this period, Mount Ellen...
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Hunter Mountain (ski area) (section Snowmaking)
half of the snowmaking arsenal at once under marginal snowmaking conditions. 2014: New pumping system added. 2015: Automated snowmaking added to Hellgate...
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trails accessible from every lift. In the 1960s, Killington installed snowmaking equipment, which had been invented in the 1950s, but was considered a...
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Ski FIS Races since 2014. Tiffindell uses snowmaking and grooming machines to maintain the ski areas. Snowmaking currently covers in excess of 1,000 metres...
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Snow Summit (section Snowmaking)
drop, and 240 acres (97 ha) of skiable terrain, partially covered by snowmaking. In 2014, Mammoth Mountain Ski Area (owned by Starwood Capital Group at...
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the resort relies heavily on snowmaking technology. As of 2011, Holiday Valley uses a completely automated snowmaking system. This system automatically...
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Easton Ski Area (section Snowmaking)
abilities. Most of the trails at Easton Ski Area are covered with snowmaking. The snowmaking fleet includes many fan guns. Eaglebrook School - Official site...
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extensive snowmaking system consisting of both compressed air/water gun type and large water/fan units. Over 80% of the resort has permanent snowmaking equipment...
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While it does not receive a lot of snowfall, Thunder Ridge does have snowmaking capabilities which can cover 95% of the mountain. Because it is open at...
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watch to see who will open first. Below are the opening dates during the Snowmaking Era.[citation needed] Season Open Date (Day of Week) 2003–2004 October...
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Appalachian Ski Mountain (section Snowmaking)
for night skiing and is 100% covered by snowmaking. All of Appalachian's slopes are covered with snowmaking. Appalachian's ski area management has a...
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Wilder Kaiser - Brixental acquired its first snowmaking equipment 1987 Installation of the first snowmaking system in Brixen Construction of the first "bubble"...
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snow for the 1973-74 season, SMC decided to install snowmaking. The first trail to have snowmaking installed was Narrow Gauge, where it was installed top...
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Lillehammer, it is one of the most modern resorts in the world, with snowmaking on 80% of the alpine pistes. Based near the river Gudbrandsdalslågen,...
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solar-powered snowmaking technique was implemented. The resort's snowmaking team developed a solar-panel to float in the largest snowmaking pond as a way...
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Ski Valley Official Tourism and Travel Website. Retrieved 2022-06-28. "Snowmaking". Arizona Snowbowl. Retrieved 2022-10-12. "Sunrise Park Resort Ski Resort...
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mid-July to early October. In 2008, a new 23-cannon, fully automated snowmaking system was installed, allowing the skifield to open earlier, capturing...
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Mount Buller Alpine Resort (section Snowmaking)
transportation. Snowmaking began on Mount Buller in the 1970s with a pilot system on Enzian Ski Run, which was later moved to Bourke Street. The main snowmaking infrastructure...
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season or during school or public holidays. The introduction of artificial snowmaking with snow guns in the late 1950s revolutionized the ski industry, drastically...
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The average annual snowfall is 300 inches (25 ft; 7.6 m), and it has snowmaking capabilities of 210 acres (0.85 km2), approximately one-third of the area...
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280 ft (690 m) vertical drop of alpine terrain accessed by 19 lifts, a snowmaking system, a cross-country center, a village, on-site lodging and summer...
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Bioprecipitation (section Snowmaking)
Ice-nucleating proteins derived from ice-nucleating bacteria are used for snowmaking. A symbiotic relationship between sulphate reducing, lead reducing, sulphur...
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community if the mountain closed. With a new strategy to finally invest in snowmaking, a chairlift, and marketing, June Mountain re-opened for the 2013–2014...
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Berkshire East Ski Resort (section Snowmaking)
make snow on all of its trails. The snowmaking system is composed almost exclusively of fan guns. The snowmaking fleet is dominated by SMI Polecats and...
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Klik snowmaking hydrants to a number of their trails. Stratton has 99 trails over 670 acres (2.7 km2) of skiable terrain, 95% of which has snowmaking. 40%...
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Ski Ward (section Snowmaking)
snow-tubing slope, a triple chairlift, and improvements to the lighting, snowmaking and snow grooming equipment. A non detachable chairlift brings up skiers...
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of 2017, Mount Snow completed a $30m snowmaking expansion and upgrade project of replacing miles of snowmaking pipe across the mountain to maximize the...
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named for Carol Holding, wife of resort owner Earl Holding. New permanent snowmaking was installed in the fall of 2006 on some of the ski runs on Dollar, ensuring...
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single ski pass. About 1,160 kilometers of slopes (97%) are covered by snowmaking and skiability is guaranteed from December to April even without snowfall...
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