04/14 - Crystal

Snow making? Really? Pumping water to 7K just to make snow in that tiny little space? There could be plenty of snow to cover the nastiest parts of the traverse... if you can snatch it out of the wind and air. Seems like what they really need is a snow fence . Wind direction is predictable enough up there that it should work fine. Even if they did have snow making they'd have the same blowing-away problem much of the time.

Temporary overnight snow fences used to work well. However, that was before the increase traffic of today. I don't think it's a wind issue, it's a sideslipping-off-the-top issue as more intermediate skiers try to get through the first 3-4 turns.

Even more news today

Maybe a third new chair for next year.

Ken

.....C-6 as a double is old news, but those nice tracks up in Powder Bowl were from the guys getting GPS coordinates for three Gazex avalanche control tubes that will be built this summer allowing remote avie control of PB.....Ken
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Ah yes, old news for you and sorry nobody else…there has been a lot of back and forth on what the new HC chair was gonna be – that’s why they built a four banger gate system at the bottom last summer (I would assume they will need a new one now). Even over the last few weeks when I’ve corned the top folks it was a moving target….oh well…personally I’m in favor for the double, not the snow making, or the big torch flam throwers, but then I don’t ski skier left side very often – so not a big impact on my world. Last rumors from the patrol and maintenance folks would have been a triple – till the insurance money changed the dynamics, even last week the thought was a “cheaper” triple then the more expensive new double lift now planned. Ski Patrol didn’t get the official word from the top management team until Monday morning. Notice all the recent articles are a little more informative about it and most of those happened after Monday – per your links.

Other - New QuickSilver lift should have been built last summer – till management decided to move the alignment into the woods. The original alignment, length and express status from the one depicted on the current marketing report is a pic from the orgianl 2004 Master plan, but I guess if your not paying attention its close enough, its not the current planned shorter, slow quad chair, ending lower than the current chair, but starting lower than the current. Next new chair will not be this summer, hopefully maybe next summer is really an option, if you read between the lines, and hopefully the sad option is the Kelly Gap chair for lots of folks – great for up loading early in the day, very bad for all the Angle runs! – bumps are gonna get bigger. But that’s outside the Hamster world – so no big deal for me.

Most of this thread should be in “other” section…oh well….

The reason the news on C6 was "old news" is because I had already posted about it on 04/09 as a result of a long discussion with Kim K. going up the gondie. Kim was aware of the plan (obviously) before any official statement was released to ski patrol, media, etc.

Aaaahhh...thankyou for pointing out my error!