Bottom Terminal Footer

The Leitner Poma team has the bottom terminal forms and rebar in place. Early this week, they will pour the concrete for the footer. Once they pull those forms, they will build new forms and, ultimately, pour the concrete column on which the motor room will sit.

 

One Of The Last

It has been a good flower season. Most of them are gone now, but a few tough one still remain.

Goats On Little Lenawee

Earlier today I was out for a little wander on the South shoulder of Little Lenawee Peak. The grass was green, the flowers were fading and the mountain goats were thick. It was a classic, late summer Colorado scene.

 

Season Passes

It is time to start thinking about season passes. I suspect that if you are reading this, you already have next season's pass figured out. In case you haven't, there are four important things to remember about A-Basin passes. One, the earlier you buy the pass, the cheaper it is. We start selling passes in March and every few months we raise the price a bit. The next price increase is Tuesday, September 13. Make sure you buy before then. Two, existing season passes holders get a discount on next year's pass if they buy early. Three, we will sell a limited amount of unrestricted passes in order to keep the quality of the ski experience high. As of now, we have sold about 72% of the unrestricted passes that we are going to sell. And four, you get awesome bonus days at Monarch, Taos, Bridger Bowl, Silverton and Bluebird Backcountry.

The key take away is, if you or your friends have not bought your A-Basin pass, do it soon, preferably before September 13.

Top Terminal

Now we have some steel at the Summit sitting on top of the concrete at Lenawee Express.

On another note, tonight is the last Burger Night of the summer. Come on up and ride our new bike trails and enjoy a burger and a beverage in the 6th Alley.

 

Some Color

Technically, the start of Fall is September 22. That said, we are getting some autumnal hints. There is some decent color starting to show in the willows and aspens. At my house in the morning the temps are in the mid thirties when I wake up. We still have plenty of nice warm days ahead of us, but it is clear, the start of the big change has begun.

 

Four New Tower Fan Guns

We are installing four new tower fan guns on Lower High Noon. The new equipment arrived last week. We have already installed the foundations. The next time a helicopter is here working on the new lift, we will fly the new towers to the foundations.

This addition brings us to nine tower guns. They have distinct advantages. The towers are in place when snowmaking begins and there is no hauling equipment around with heavy machinery. Also, the towers are higher than a conventional fan gun. The higher the gun, the more loft/time for water droplets to freeze. Typically, we can make a little more snow with a tower gun. The one disadvantage is that the guns are not mobile. They only make snow in one spot.

We will keep looking for places to strategically put tower guns, ideally looking for places where a tower has a bigger impact.

And This Is Joey

And if you don't know Joey, this is him doing final design refinements out on Zuma Cornice with a little rainbow action in the background.