Getting Ready

Think of the excitement and joy you felt, or have witnessed in your own children, receiving a bike on Christmas morning.  

That similar twinkle in the eye was expressed by our Assistant Mountain Operations Director Kellen when the Prinoth "J'raffe" showed up. He grabbed the keys and nobody was allowed to touch it.  Pronounced like the animal Giraffe, this machine was pretty sweet.  It had this cockpit (similar to the side of the Millenneum Falcon), with groomer like tracks and a huge boom.  At the end of this boom a circulating saw the size of car tire that could be extended 100's of feet in the air.  

We used this for a week to trim back limbs and trees near all of our lifts and some difficult to reach locations where snowmaking machines are located. 

Thank you to Prinoth for letting us demo. We might be adding this puppy to our fleet in the future.

Ry has also been behind the sticks of our mowing groomer this fall.  We mow our slopes down (at last the main ones) before we turn the snowmaking guns to get as much brush and high grass out of the way, so that our snow gets to the ground quicker to create that initial base.  

We've already completed one water test on our pipes, guns and pumps but we'll be doing another one here on Thursday in the Eastern Trails. If you happen to be driving by and see the guns on up top on trails like Superstition etc that's why!