Neither you nor I.........

Those of us that like winter sports, don't particularly like the forecast for the next couple of days............but clearly there is nothing we can do about it but wait and watch............

.......looks like we are not going to avoid the rain but as of now it does look like it will be heavier rainfall south of us........good........

.......as much as anything, these warm temps are keeping us from making more snow............we are so close to getting the lower half of Drop Zone open and so close to getting Elwoods Hideout and Central Park open too..........

.........what I see is snow making should be possible Thursday night and Friday night............

.......so hang in there with us and we will all wait and see what exactly happens..........and know that we are poised to get the guns on just as soon as we can............

...see you on the slopes........

It's Saturday Morning - Day 2

Last night was a great opening day. Lot of people anxious to get on the snow again......and they did just that! It was cold but it didn't seem to bother anyone.

We continued to make snow last night and after we closed, in addition to grooming everything, we got Freeway OPEN.......and at noon today we will have both chairlifts running.

One more good night of snow making and we will have Elwoods open and maybe Central Park too. We also got a great start on making snow in the lower half of the Drop Zone.......which will allow us to put more features out.......and get some jumps built.

Once that is all done we will hit the snow tubing park.....

Ken set the pipe last night on the bend of Abbys Alley and it is getting used a bunch......also have three rails out on the lower end of Carters Crossing.

It is a beautiful day for riding and skiing........hope you can make it out.

We are open!!! Here we go 2011-2012 !

Thank goodness the temps dropped and we got open on schedule just moments ago. Made a lot of snow since Sunday night. Abbys Alley, Carters Crossing and the School Yard are open. We have enough snow made today to open Freeway tomorrow. Have a couple rails set for tonite. We are also making snow on the lower half of Drop Zone so we can get some features and jumps in there. Also making snow tonight on Elwoods Hideout........

See you soon.........

Keepin on keepin on

Yep, we are keepin all the snowmaking on.........the snow guns are still gunning snow.........cool.......will start the pushing and grooming early tomorrow morning.

Are you coming to ride this Friday night or Saturday??

It's paying off.......

Building another pond, going thru each snow gun with a fine toothed comb and investing in a newly rebuilt pump has allowed us to really crank out the snow since we turned on yesterday afternoon. As of 3:30 pm today we have gone 24 straight hours at full throttle..........with no let up for the next 24 hours...........and then it still looks like we will go at least another 12 hours.............awesome...........and we haven't even come close to running out of water..........

........it does appear however that I will delay my first day in the snow cat from what I originally thought would be tomorrow.........Tuesday........til Wednesday morning.............

.......gonna let the guns pound on school yard, carters crossing and abbys all night tonight so we are deep on those three runs............then move to the freeway.............

.......I don't know if we can have the Freeway open Friday night or not.............but there is a shot.........and we are going for it............

..........so who is going to make it out Friday night?????? leave me your comments.............

........this Saturday and Sunday look like highs in the thirties.........but snowmaking temps at night..............let's go.........

tic toc tic toc...........getting close to opening day

If you are into snow and into riding and into skiing...........then you gotta like the forecast with the falling temps that start in earnest tonight. Finally going to get some 24, no make that 36 or more continuous hours of snow making........

.............. Really getting pumped about spending some hours in the snow cat on Tuesday, getting the snow leveled out on the SchoolYard and Abbys Alley........I love the process.......it is truly one of my most favorite things to do.

The heavy snow yesterday was to our northwest............the heavy rain was to our southeast............so we are OKAY with it all.............lost a little of our snow but not a show stopper at all!

see you on the slopes in a short five more days!!

Friday morning update

Guns got on about 9 pm last night and the temps continued to drop........we were at maximum capacity at 11 pm and still going strong now.......a lot of snow was made during the night.......the School yard and Abbys Alley are starting to knit together real nice...........about one more night and those two will be in pretty good shape............at least we will be able to get on them with the cats and get the snow leveled out to really know if we need more or not...........

.......then the plan is to move the guns to the Freeway........

......Friday after Five tonite.......with live music, food, cold beverages, good conversation........and the annual sacrifice of skis and snowboard to the snow god.....Ulr......and geez.......based on the forecast it looks like Ulr knows we are going to be doing it based on what is predicted for Saturday weather.......!!

......most of the new Seven Oaks clothing delivered yesterday so Austin will be on hand from 5 to 7 tonight in the sales office if you want to browse through them........

.......did you see the piece on the 10 pm KCCI news last night??........they called at about 4 pm and said they were on their way up to do an interview and shoot some footage in a half hour......and they were here in a half hour..........good update on our snow conditions for everyone........thanks KCCI........Patrick and Spencer for doing that........

we'll be posting to you again soon.........