Friday, October 7, 2022

Big Snowmaking Announcement

It's time to share some very exciting news with our season pass holders and all of you who enjoy skiing & riding at Welch Village! 

As part of a multiphase snowmaking improvement investment, we have just purchased a significant amount of new, state of the art TechnoAlpin fan gun towers.  This investment is an addition to the 4 portable snow guns that we already purchased this past summer and additional snowmaking pipe and infrastructure improvements this summer.  

Adding 14 new snow guns of this caliber will add a significant amount of more snowmaking capabilities which will be a game changer for us and for those of you who want to ski more of the Village and sooner in the season. 

We were not planning on moving forward with this phase of this plan this soon.  These ten new tower guns became available about two weeks ago now and we were not planning to buy these now.  By now, we are all aware of continued global supply chain issues and things like new snow guns like this were not supposed to be available until about a year from now.  We were fortunate and were told that 10 tower guns were available now....and we jumped on the opportunity and purchased all 10. 

We are not sure how many of these new tower units will actually be installed this fall for use this season.  Again, we were not planning on a massive project like this now.  The tower guns are still 2-3 weeks from arriving and looking at the calendar, it will be a challenge to get even half of these units installed.  However...our team will do what we can to get as many towers installed now as possible in addition to all of the chairlift maintenance and ski area wide work that has to happen to open Welch Village for the season ahead. 

Looking into the future, the next phase of this plan will be adding additional water supply next summer & fall which will really showcase the capabilities of this new fleet of snowmaking equipment. 

Below are some photos of what these guns look like as well as a video.  

Stay tuned for more updates in the days and weeks ahead.  Thank you for choosing Welch Village. Winter is coming. 












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