Killington ski resort improve snowmaking

Killington expands snowmaking and improves trails for 2011-12

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Killington ski area in Vermont is spending $6.5 million this summer on resort improvements for winter 2011/12. Most obvious to guests will be a new tubing park which will ebut adjacent to East Mountain Road across from the Killington Grand Hotel using the Killington Golf Course Clubhouse as the operations base. In addition, the ski area, famous for many years for its massive snowmaking arsenal, is making a huge investment in its snowmaking system with new replacement snowmaking pipes, hydrants and valves.

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Snowmaking underway at Whistler

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Whistler’s build up to its most important ever season, Olympic year 2010, is getting underway with snowmaking guns firing up to compliment the natural snowfall that has already blanketed the resort’s upper slopes.

Currently, over 160 snow guns are assisting Mother Nature to get a head start on winter with additional snow guns expected to be on-line within the next 24 hours as the freezing level continues to descend down the mountain.

Currently snowmaking production is converting over 7 million gallons of water into snow per day. This is equivalent to producing snow as high as a four-story building with a footprint the size of a football field, per day. As temperatures cool production levels can more than double.