7 Springs--Snowmaking

Wow that's awesome! I'll have to get up tp Wisp this year.

Regarding 7Springs, does anyone know about this new Yodeler trail? Is this a double black; Good potential?

TerpSKI, During a sober moment, not too long ago, tromano filed this report and some grate pics, seems like they rated it a single black.

Thanks Jimmy.

IIRC, Wisp has generally the most terrain open early of any of the local hills. Now with the upgrade in capacity the may be top dogs. The reason DCL. They never run out of water and never have to turn off or throtle down because of lack of water. Other area resorts have to store water in ponds. Durnig times of heavy snow making this serves as an upper limit to how much snow can be made reguardless of snowmaking capacity. --Tim

It sure is taking them a long time to fix that airline.

Interesting calculation - by my math, 4800 tons equals 153777 CFH or 3,690,654 cubic feet of water per day assuming 100% duty cycle and 100% utilization. (I think you made an error in your conversion to volume - it should be about 42.7159 cfs based on a cubic foot of water @ 62.42796 lbs)

Spraying this across 5,761,800 sq ft (132 acres), gives 0.6405 cubic feet per square foot per day, or nearly 7.7 inches of water per day. That's a LOT of water! (Good thing Deep Creek Lake is right there ) By comparison, when they run open the tubes for the upper yough, they drain up to about 630 cfs from the lake.

If you could blow 25% average water content snow, this equates to about 30" of snow over the whole area per day! Of course, they can't run at 100% all day, alot of snow lands on areas other than the slopes, there are significant evaporative losses, etc..... But it does explain why the cameras show lots of piles that are 10ft deep after just 24 hours of operation. WaHOOOOOOOO

Jimmy:

This is why I plan to do most of my early season skiing at Wisp. In this region, snowmaking capability trumps everything else, even high-speed lifts. Snow is life.

an interesting link on Liberty's site - http://www.skiliberty.com/gascalculator.htm

A buddy of mine just called from moving in to his locker. Evidently the guns have been blowing on North Face Slope also, it's covered. Maybe we'll get lucky and see the NF Slope open next weekend as well.

From the cams, it doesn't look like anyone has found the duct tape yet

Awesome that they're blowing on the NF as well. Since the temp is now showing 30 (marginal for snowmaking unless the humidity is quite low), maybe they'll start up on the front face again later tonight.

Thanks for checking, tommo, yep, found the mistake I so hate hitting divide instead of multiply.