Behind the Scenes - How Snowmaking at Ski Resorts Works
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------ We often take for granted the snow on the ground, but ski resorts are not in a position to do the same. Snow is essential to their operation and success. With the ever unpredictable weather received in winter, which includes thaws, rain and worse, ski resorts need to "weather-proof" their operation as much as possible. One way to accomplish this is through snowmaking.
Snowmaking allows a mountain to offer great ski conditions from the beginning to the end of a season, stepping in when nature presents issues, or helping touch up the ski slopes.
Taking you "Behind the Scenes" at Calabogie Peaks Resort, discover how snowmaking is accomplished and how the impressive technology works, in this guided tour with the resort's President, Paul Murphy and Brian Bunch, Mountain Operations Manager.
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Great video and well articulated as to the finite technology of snowmaking in the 21st century. The narrator has a vested interest in that local business, it's obvious, and he's a serious asset to Calabogie. Probably the best video on snowmaking in North America I have ever seen. Thank you.
Thank you for your positive comments. Happy you enjoyed the video.
Don't forget all the fun parts like using the Tiger Torch to thaw the ice that often forms on the rear fanguard screens. Digging out the hoses and power cords after the night shift guys slept most of there shift. Hanging, thawing, and rolling 100 ft water hoses etc. Unsung heroes.
6am, just got back from a gun run. Im the night shift guy. 🤣
In my family of six, we learned to ski as soon as we could walk. All six of us have worked in several ski areas. But the snow making equipment, when it finally came in, remained pretty much a mystery. So I was glad to see this video. I wish my parents could have seen this.
So I thank you for this presentation.
Now I'm going to see if Google will help me find you. I don't believe you said where you are. As a Californian, I have skied only in our mountains. So I don't know where the other ski areas are.
Hi Michael. The mountain featured in the video is Calabogie Peaks, located just outside Ottawa, Ontario in Eastern Canada. www.calabogie.com
Nothing beats the feel of natural snow though
Nathan Zaremskiy yeah like skiing on smooth butter
@Ibrahim Andre you're pathetic
Yea but natural snow dont last
Thanx capt. Obvious!
Myths on the east coast.
Got high and wondered how fake snow is made so now I’m here
same
@@johnkah0406 Same
OH SHIT ME TOO
Wow. Me to
Same
Did I just watch over 10 minutes of an ad fro a ski resort that I will not likely EVER go to?!?!
Of course the areas with artificial snow will last longer. It's got twice as much snow as the other areas.
Yeah, I'm wondering where the hell Calabogie is.
Oleg Velichko yos
Near Ottawa.
Just went there last weekend, poutines not bad and 40 bucks for a day pass
5:00 “Come Christmas, our trails will be fully open” Last Christmas, this hill had 2 of their 25 trails open🤣. The weather in December was pretty cold, with the exception of one week.
Most resorts in Japan have no snow making facilities.. Place to be!
It is great.
The main reason resorts out in Utah and Colorado make their own snow so that they can open earlier and stay open later.
As he said in the video, man-made snow makes a better base layer. We used to be able to ski from October to June on lift-serve
the technique part starts from ~ 5:22
Nice
Thx
Great video! It's amazing how much infrastructure goes into snow making. Keep up the good work!
Great System!!! Here in Montafon Austria, they use snowmakers on almost every resort!!! Unfortunately, even in the Alps the weather is not always ideal!!!
Greetings from Austria!
Those snow making machines are not fail safe, in case of a power/motor failure they should automatically drain all the water out to prevent pipe breakups.
you must be an engineer, congrats on noticing something fairly small that wasn't worth mentioning in the video
@Peppe Ddu thank you so much, I've got a question though, are all other types of snowmaking machines like this, or is it a common problem you encounter with all snowmaking machines
Awesome video! I was always so curious about snow machines. I am very close to a world class resort (Whistler Blackcombe) in Canada. I always see these machines
I think the ski lodge I am an instructor at is one of a very few that doesn't have snow making... Wish we did!!
Fantastic narration, Paul Murphy
Great and rather informative video. Thank you very much for putting it together. It would be great to see on how the snow is spread across the trails - ski runs where it gets made by carriage fans. Thank you.
Excellent example for other ski resorts to follow.
This was very interesting. Thank you!
That was immensely fascinating! Great video! X
Great production guys, i didn't realise all that hard work went on behind the scenes, I am now well informed, Thank you :¬)
by behind the scenes you must mean behind that blue curtain they used a s a blue screen for this shoddy ass production.
Very very interesting video. I thought that it was all natural snow because the workers told me its all fresh snow , but now I know it's a snow maker machine
Great Vids!!!⛄️I subscribed to you. I love skiing too I love how you made like a interview in a vid
Wow! That's actually really cool.
Most informative, thank you.
Such an awesome video on snow making!
Beautiful presentation, well written, I always wanted to know how they make snow, very detailed, nice resort also,
Surprisingly good, interesting and informative video.
This video felt like a school project
It's really educative and full of knowledge. Many thanks for sharing this update. All the very best!! Best regards, Nassa
Very informative.. nice job !!!
At Stratton vt, a trail had 25-30 feet piles in May.
great !!!
That was really interesting, thanks for making the video for us.
passing through the snow machines is the best part.
hahaha
Thank you for making these informative videos❤
Early snow this fall.
Likely to be a long season.
Excellent info!
Very good video it's a art to it and you guys know the way to do it !
Thank you for the feedback. Happy that you enjoyed the video.
being a snow maker at my local ski resort was my all time favorite job! i think i still have my SmoMaker swiss army knife, the rep gave me.
Looks like a fun job
Thanks for a rather awesome window into the ski industry!
Super interesting.
That was interesting!
Cool informative video..... :)
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Cool.
Cool
9:45 Kinda like sprinklers during the summer when you're under very crappy droughts all summer long! It makes so much sense now! We do it when fricken weather doesn't! Now I want a snow machine! Probably wouldn't have a very welcoming water and electric bill though... 😂🤣
Interesting
How do you keep your water pipes and hoses from freezing?
Nice system. I work at a resort in pa that has a system that has 90 techno alpines and a portable fleet of pole cats that is an automated system with e-motors that run water hydrant.
7 springs? Pgh resident here 🙋🏽♂️
Just watched a new Marines recruit video before this and was waiting for this guy to start yelling at me!
😂😂😂😂
Very interesting.. pity it’s raining so much more. When you need those dry cold days to make snow. How expensive is it, running this system..?
So many Jerry's in the background
I want that machine
outstanding video. thanks a lot. SC Navy vet
Snow is time released water
whats the avg cost of running one of these per hour ?
5:50 the pressure is generated at the snow gun- that fire hose would burst well below 600psi.
No
I’m interviewing to do this job later and I figured I’d get a better hourly pay if I made it sound like I knew what I was doing 🤣
Some interesting content to a limited audience that just doesnt want to watch so many ad's from a greedy person with only 1.78K subs. Greed never wins
9:14 ya, one of the pump's packing is fucked lol
Where can I learn about equipment, operational costs, production efficiency, snow quality differentials of spraying steam vs liquid water???🤔
Is no one concerned about the large water leak? 9:10
Your saving money with your new system. Are you lowering the price of the tickets for your place?
That intro, lol)
Might want to fix your seal leaking on your shaft from your electrical motor on that water pump....
do ya not have cooling towers?
It would seem better to have a water tank at each pump. That way you wouldn't need any central high pressure system.
With TechnoAlpin equipment you can start making snow even at temperatures above 0 degrees.
With smi too if you speek in wet temperature
So how do you keep the water from freezing at those temps between the pump house to the machines?
You keep it flowing, I was making snow last night at -32 and if you have a problem and water quits moving for over a minute you’re pretty well screwed, I run a mobile unit with a big generator and water tank in a sea can with a high pressure pump pushing water to the snow maker, tank is filled by a 3 inch water pump running at pretty well idle
@@timmyteabag69 interesting stuff.
for the water distribution, how do you keep it from freezing?
You keep it flowing, water doesn’t freeze easy when it’s moving at a high rate of speed
Lifting water was the main driving factor for the invention of the heat engine. Water is heavy. This is not lifting water out of a well. This is lifting 2,000 gallons of water up a mountain every minute for up to a week at a time, nonstop...that’s a lot of work/energy.
IS THIS POSSIBLE IN TERAI REGION?
How much did this system cost???
1:30 Colorado resorts stay open for more than half the year
Colorado is different, idiot.
How do they prevent the pipes from freezing?
when the pumps aren't running the water drains back into the lake, leaving empty pipes
It would make my life at university more comfortable if i had this instead of the other snowflakes there.
Oh so edgy
what hahahahah
Are you at UCLA? lol
this was lit 👌
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How does the water lines not freeze
As long as the water is pumping through they will not freeze in most cases. The danger is when the power goes out and the pumps stop, the snowmaking crews have very little time to disconnect the hoses and drain the water before the snowguns get damaged. Because of that, it becomes dangerous and risky to do snowmaking as it gets extremely cold (-20'c and beyond).
The water lines from the lake to pump house and from pump house to each gun station is buried in the ground over two feet deep. Than has a lateral from main water line connected to a hydrant that has drains on the bottom of them which are also buried .
The ski resort I work at has 103 automated pole cats and techno alpine system. That have back up batteries that work a e- motor that sits on hydrant that shuts them off and drains
I’m a snow maker and a piston bully operator. The lines do freeze sometimes. Gotta get out there and unfreeze them. 300psi water 90pst air and 480volts all in one little spot. I love my job.
You may be able to set up for Mtb bikes to help get through the other 265 days.🤷♂️
He keeps calling it a mountain. Calabogie is a speed bump.
There’s much smaller in the area lol
I'll buy 1 just for the 45 acres of land I purchased !
Where can I buy this machine?
dollar tree
computer
Technoalpin
Jeremiah Blocker eBay look up fleshlite
Amazon
"Incase of power outage." Does that include fires? Lol
That was informative. It would be ideal if they could power those big electric motors with renewable energy, like wind power.
Very impressive, thank you for a great insight into stopping the global warming scam.
I live in Hawaii and they dont make snow here ...so we dont get to go skiing.
Forgot to mention snowmax
A lot like farming
How do we donate please
What are you inquiring to donate to?
Not enough footage of the snow blowers actually running
Too bad
I wonder what has more gas, those fan guns or the presenter hehehe
An article on the Beijing Olympics brought me here.
Very interesting. Could you share the link to the article. Thank you.
Shantyman
Hahaha! My favourite ski can’t not go to Calabogie
Jeez that's still 11KW per snow maker.
yeah nothing environmentally green about this whole operation..
Tyler Watthanaphand nope, not enough snow.
Powder Mountain UT does not even have snow makers and their yearly average is 500".
Dietrich Cheney I haven’t been to that one, but know it’s a lot grittier and non-touristy that the main six as I call them (Alta, Snowbird, Park City, Deer Valley, Brighton, Solitude)
You couldn't turn one on up close??????
You wouldn’t be able to hear anything they are extremely loud
i only just learnt the snow at ski resorts is fake and idk what to do - australian
this must have been such a joke to the snowmakers to see these guys talking about this lol