Jamie Wrote:
To answer the poster's question, if one could be arsed it would be possible to adjust my model using AWS data gathered on Cairngorm over the past 10 years to predict an average season start date (i.e., a date from which the pistes wouldn't break again until the spring) that would be possible under snow-making using a set number of cannons. I am not sure that anyone could be particularly arsed however for an exercise that is unfunded and largely academic.
I can think of one entity that should do the research and combine it with some usage figures when certain runs are complete (or not) so they could cost the use of the snow making in specific ways with the increase in custom and see if the cost of the snowmaking would be profitable in terms of the increase in users.