Moving into 2021, here’s an update on our snowmaking efforts this season and plan for the upcoming couple of weeks. We rely heavily on natural snowfall to help us open more terrain and recondition the current open slopes. We haven’t had much of that of course. As for snowmaking, it’s our only way to combat a light snowfall year. We need two elements to make snow, electricity and water. We started the year with no electricity and used a million-watt generator to create power to make snow on Midland and Easy Street. No easy task by any stretch. Next, comes water and this is our current hold up. With the dry summer and lack of monsoon season our water source is producing 60-70% less water than normal. To put this in context, on a cold, low humidity night we can use about a million gallons of water for snowmaking. It is currently taking us 7-9 days to recoup a million gallons of water, we are in this cycle of hurry up make snow and then wait for water. We have started making snow on Middle Gayway and plan to continue up Gayway as quickly as we can. I also have a little surprise project that we will start on Lower Broadway that the kids (and parents hopefully) will enjoy. On a positive note, let’s all do a snow dance for the possible storm this weekend!

Josh Faber, Mountain Manager