I have been skiing and riding past this solar collection tripod for 3 or 4 years and every now and then I think to myself – I gotta remember to ask someone what it does and why it’s there. Well today I finally asked.
It’s a weather monitoring station for the snowmaking system. It transmits the ambient plus wet bulb temps and the humidity to a couple of computers around the area. The snowmaking team then translates the data into gun and nozzle settings to make the best use of optimal temperatures and water usage.
Now that it was explained to me (again), I remember the end around the team took to get it. It was one of those “here just try this, it’s demos” you get from the salesman, a year later we can’t live w/o it, which then turns into “boy do I have a deal for you” & “you know at this price I am actually loosing money on this deal”. Hence we are the proud owner of a state of the art solar powered weather monitoring station!
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5 Responses to What does it do? (01/31/12)
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I made that trianglar tree fort thing, and mounted the weather station with solar panel and car battery power storage. Just one of many things that i helped with in my three years working for the mountain. hey Jim, watch out for the little wire men that protect the hydrants all over the mountain (ask Carl if you you want to know more)
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Hey Jim, Levi here with Campo, good work man!!
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I would love it if you could put the old snow fall history back up on the website that shows the snowfall by the month as far back as 68/69. For some reason it is missing from the website this year. Only 2011-12 is reported.
I would also love it if there could be better signage at the mountain about the condition of various runs. i know its on the website, but that doesn’t help much when i am at the mountain. how about purchasing some whiteboards to put at each chair lift and having up-to-date information about which runs are groomed, powder, mogully, etc. i know that last year i had a bad knee and wanted to know where the groomers were, but could find noone on the mountain who knew…chairlift operators didn’t have the information and i was not able to find a ski-patrol for almost two hours. A simple idea to make the mountain more customer friendly.
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Ok Gentleman, we will start with the M W Saloon open on Monday, make the best of it! And i’ll let Melissa know the Fabulaus Bayer Boys are in town – cheers, Jim
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Oh no, my brother and I are arriving Sunday for 4 days of hopefully skiing, our plan b was to spend more time with Melissa and the sundeck, will they still be closed next week? She will verify that the bayer boys spend enough every day at the bar to justify its opening