My oldest daughter and I continued our tradition and spent Christmas Eve today lapping our snow filled runs at Welch Village. We skied all 20+ runs but then lapped our favorites Bakkelyka, Lookout, and Sweeny multiple times each. Believe it or not, even though we have experienced record warmth this November and December, we are historically close to the amount of runs and lifts that we would typically have open for this time of the year.
Credit for that goes to the passion and hard work of our snowmaking crew, grooming crew, and our entire team here in the Village. Credit also has to be given to the dedication & continued investment in snowmaking capital & infrastructure which will enable us to offer a "White Christmas" to all of you.
Last year…in September, when 10 brand new Techno Alpin snow gun towers became available, I visited Grandpa Leigh up has his home and showed him the brochure, related information, and specs for these impressive machines. I told him that I was considering buying a few of them. He immediately told me, "Peter...buy all ten of them. Do you have the money to buy all ten right now?" I replied, "Probably". Then he said, "One day, there will be a winter, a challenging winter, when you will be very happy that you had purchased all ten of these snow guns. Just do it." That winter turned out to be this winter.
Snowmaking was Leigh Nelson's true passion. He loved to ski yes. But he loved making snow and yes...buying modern snowmaking equipment. He was right. Those 10 guns made difference this year as did all of our recent snowmaking investments.
We will persevere through the rain over Christmas and we will have slopes and lifts of great skiing and riding that you can enjoy during the holiday week and well beyond.
Merry Christmas from our family to yours!
Great job this year Peter. Challenging year but perseverance ruled!
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