Lots of snow. Make good choices.

Sorry to sound like the parent, but this my annual plea for all of passholders and guests to please make good choices, read & follow our signage, and follow our simple policy of staying off closed runs & closed areas until our team has time to push around all of this awesome snow we have made with the recent cold weather.  We take safety very seriously here and our patrol and staff will take your lift ticket and possibly your pass privileges for a period of time if they see you in closed areas.  We have a zero tolerance policy for those who think that simple rules don't apply to them. Thank you for being patient while we continue to open more terrain.  Keep watching our social media and snow report as more runs will be opening consistently now over the next several days.  Thank you to our employees for being the best of the best and getting more of the Village open for all of us to enjoy. 

 

Next steps to open more of the Village

We were blessed again last night and this morning with near perfect early season snowmaking conditions. Temps in the teens, very low humidity, and a light NW breeze.  The water in the Cannon River is also getting colder and that directly affects how much snow we can make.  The colder the water, the better.  And it's starting to really show.  The start of this season is very different to the start of last season.  See pics below taken this morning.  

Opening weekend was a bit chaotic.  We had some snowmaking pump issues early last week and then we had some Piston Bulley Snow Cat issues Saturday morning.  There are always challenges like this at the start of the season but our team always finds a way to persevere and figure it out.  Kudos to them and all of our employees who were able to open up the Village this weekend for the start of our 60th season. 

We will need to shut down snowmaking because of a couple warmer periods this week and this coming weekend.  However, there are still some cold nights and days in the forecast and our crew will continue to take advantage of that.  Our grooming team will also need some time to push all of this snow around in order to open more terrain. 

The plan right now is for Lookout to open tomorrow.  Runs like Coulee, Nanny's Nob, Triple R are coming later in the week.  We will also be working on Harley's Hollow & Dan's Dive.  Most of these runs should be ready by Friday. Stay tuned and keep watching the Snow Report on our website. 

Thank you to all of you who joined us this weekend especially all of our passholders who enjoyed our traditional passholders only day on opening day.  More info to come, winter is here.