Snowmaking for Santa's Arrival

Kudos to our team who have been working extra hard the last few days to make as much snow as quickly as possible.  No doubt it has been a bit of a struggle bus this year to get Mother Nature to work with us but we've taken advantage of every cold minute we could.  Snowmakers were incentivized this week to see who could make the most snow with the longest not tallest whale.  Why?  The smaller the pile the quicker our groomers can flatten or widen the snow into a skiable surface.  Efficiency is the name of the game this year given the rollercoaster of temperatures. By the time Friday rolls around the following trails should be added to the mix: Miracle, Birch, Upper Duskey, Sky High, Lower Duskey, Elk, Slalom, a full Mystery and potentially a few others off the top of Blitzen.  The team is already headed East with the goals of spinning Cupid by the weekend of the 23rd.  

This weekend marks the exciting start of our daily operations! 🎉 Beginning Monday, 12/18, we'll be open every day until April, with our lifts joyfully spinning until 9 pm each evening! ⛷️❄️ This signifies the kickoff of our regular operations. The Historic Chalet is set to be open Fridays through Sundays. Plus, after the holidays, we're adding Wednesday nights to the mix for our Wisconsin Wednesdays promotion, starting January 3rd. 🏂✨

And that's not all the fun we have in store! 🎶 This weekend, we're thrilled to welcome back our favorite après-ski musician, Brad Emanuel. 🎸 He'll be treating us to a special Christmas set in the Historic Chalet for some pre-7pm fireworks enjoyment, right out on the slopes in front of the Historic Deck! 🎄💥 Brad will be gracing us with his musical talents every Saturday from 12/30 through April, and stay tuned for a full band performance set in late March! 🕺🎵 Get ready for a season of winter wonder and fantastic tunes! 🌨️🎤

We all know that the weather has been more mild than we've had in recent years.  It's ok.  We've had four really strong winters in a row and it will come around but snowmaking temps have not been optimal.  Given that I wanted to share our goals for the next upcoming weather patterns.  The adjacent graphic indicates what we anticipate to have open starting Friday 12/15 (green), our next snowmaking moves (light blue) and then additional (purple) if possible.  This is what we are shooting for by Christmas.  Could it be more - absolutely, could it be less, unfortunately yes it could.  It all depends on lows and how long those temps will be around for.  

By the Christmas Holiday Week our goals are to have 6 of 7 lifts spinning with Cupid, Santa, and Frosty to our count along with approximately 30 -33 trails & 3 terrain parks.