Capital Improvements Blog - The Gondi Line Line
Even though the forecasts were promising bright sunny weather yesterday, conditions up on the summit were anything-but for most of the day. That didn't stop us from haul 825 feet of new snowmaking pipe up Gondi Extension though, thanks to a little help from the boys from Royal Trail Crew. Using a skidder, an excavator, and a whole lotta cable, we pulled two 800+ foot pieces of pipe across Spillway Crosscut and then straight up Gondi Extension to the summit. You wouldn't believe how flexible an 800 foot piece of pipe is either. It wiggles all around like a wet noodle.
So with the pipe all in place, now it's a matter of a whole lotta welding. Couplings, hydrants, and tying the new pipe into the existing system. Then it'll be off to new projects on Sidewinder and over at the halfpipe, and with our first frost coming tonight it won't be long before we can fire these new lines up.
So with the pipe all in place, now it's a matter of a whole lotta welding. Couplings, hydrants, and tying the new pipe into the existing system. Then it'll be off to new projects on Sidewinder and over at the halfpipe, and with our first frost coming tonight it won't be long before we can fire these new lines up.
Tags: capital, gondi, gondola, improvements, line, pipe, snowmaking
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Comment by sue's husband on August 28, 2009 at 9:47am - The pictures are cool. I especially like the one in the earlier post looking up Gondi with the heavy equipment in the distance. The expansion of snowmaking is a good thing. More terrain early and more terrain late. I have a couple of questions. If you're going to be making snow on Gondi ext, you'll get more traffic. How is the traffic going to flow onto/over the Spillway crosscut from Gondi ext? The transition at White Nitro can be dicey for both people coming down and people coming across. Also, since the wind occaisionally does a good job of scrubbing Nitro clean, are there plans to do something to help the mm snow stay on Gondi ext?
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I have a question on how far down the mountain phase 1 will go. The map shows it all the way to Snowbrook /lower part of Woody Creek. Is this really where it will end or will it somehow end onto the Stubb's Glase condo access trail?
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Ethan,
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SO amazing. So so so so so amazing.
STOKED. Ill be gone before stage 3 is done but can't wait to check out stage one this winter and possibly stage 2 next. Guna add some awesome terrain
That's not even half of the big announcment. Sugarloaf finally has a 10 year long term plan:
http://sugarloaf2020.com/
OK. I will ruins the surprise.
I would love to see a disc golf course at Sugarloaf.
Anyone up there ever thought about putting a disc golf course on the mountain for use in the summer time. Alot of ski resorts are doing this now and sugarloaf would be a great place for a course. Just an idea wondering what everyone else thought abo…
It is a three phase project so it won't be fully done for a couple years. they are starting phase one this season.
SO SO SO HAPPYYYY!!!!!!
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