paisleyboarder Wrote:
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> Camelback in Tannersville, PA, started their
> snowmaking yesterday more than 1500 snow cannons
> linked with over 40 miles of pipe.
My girlfriend is currently living in New Jersey, haven't made it to Camelback, but went to another place nearby called Mountain Creek (http://www.mountaincreek.com/), which is fairly similar. They call it a mountain, but it's more of a wooded hillside. The place is owned by Intrawest who seem to be poring a lot of money into new development, there was a very impressive new base lodge being built when I was there. The day I went they were hosting a selection event for the US Olympic Snowboard team.
The snowmaking system is one of the most impressive and densest i've seen. As you can see from the attached picture (from jan 2006), the only snow was the stuff on the runs that came from the cannons. Went to Killington later in the week, a lot further north and much higher up, but even there they were heavily reliant on the snow cannons to get the runs open, so it just shows what you can do if you have the money. If Scotland had snowmaking half as good, the season would probably be sufficiently reliable to make it worth coming up more often, I live to far away to make it worth the effort unless things are looking very good.
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