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Cool_Beans said:
My daughter loves to ski, but my wife (being a native Floridian) has only skied once in her life as a teenager. She definitely wants to learn and be able to go as a family now that I'm on the inside.
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I always pause for a second when I see the length of skis people use nowadays. I remember running ski's a foot taller than me. Nowadays anything above eye level is too long!! 😄

The half pipe freaks seem to love those short twin tips. I remember watching from my chair one of those freaks trying to navigate a giant mogul field on short, wide twin tips. It wasn't pretty!!!😂
 
i used to love skiing.. i was never very good at it but good enough to have fun. i was the type that would tuck in and go as fast as i possibly could till i fell, get up and do it all over again!!

never been to maine skiing though, best places i went were killington and stowe.
 
Stoneyluv said:
i used to love skiing.. i was never very good at it but good enough to have fun. i was the type that would tuck in and go as fast as i possibly could till i fell, get up and do it all over again!!

never been to maine skiing though, best places i went were killington and stowe.
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Luckily, I still have some cartilage left in my knees so I still have a few more seasons in me. My favorite places so far are Snowbird and Alta in Utah, Breckenridge, Copper, Vail and Aspen in Colorado, and Mammoth, Palisades at Tahoe, Northstar at Tahoe, Heavenly and Kirkwood in California.
 
Rootsruler said:
Luckily, I still have some cartilage left in my knees so I still have a few more seasons in me. My favorite places so far are Snowbird and Alta in Utah, Breckenridge, Copper, Vail and Aspen in Colorado, and Mammoth, Palisades at Tahoe, Northstar at Tahoe, Heavenly and Kirkwood in California.
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wow man, you've been to a whole bunch of places!! sounds like a lot of fun!!

i'd like to think my skiing days are not over. with the right crowd i'd go! i don't own ski's anymore anymore and have rented the last handful of times or so.

do you like boarding at all? i tried it the last few times i skied and started to like it. it's been years though.. i stopped way back when i lost health insurance and 50% of the time i'd get hurt so i hung it up... but now fast forward 20 years and i have full coverage again so i'd be down!!! :D
 
Stoneyluv said:
wow man, you've been to a whole bunch of places!! sounds like a lot of fun!!

i'd like to think my skiing days are not over. with the right crowd i'd go! i don't own ski's anymore anymore and have rented the last handful of times or so.

do you like boarding at all? i tried it the last few times i skied and started to like it. it's been years though.. i stopped way back when i lost health insurance and 50% of the time i'd get hurt so i hung it up... but now fast forward 20 years and i have full coverage again so i'd be down!!! :D
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After I decided I was too old to become a professional surfer I thought the next best thing for sliding down a water mountain was skiing! My first time was at Heavenly. I was hooked. No having to wait for Mother Nature to serve me up a ride. Just jump on the chair and the mountain awaits!!! The other attraction for me as a surfer.....cough cough scantily clad women cough cough...was confirmed my first time in a lift line. The stretch fabric was strong with the female skiers!! 😄

I've snowboarded a few times and actually was starting to get the hang of it, i.e. I wasn't getting slapped against the mountain catching my front edge, but I wasn't into having to start all over again so I stuck with 2 planks instead of one. I did envy some of the early riders and how they were able to bonk different things on the trail but after hanging out with a bunch of teenage park freaks on skis I started to learn how to bonk stuff myself and go off jumps without breaking my neck! This next season will be the last season I attempt to do grabs off of jumps. My body can't take the constant crashing learning new tricks does to your body like a teenager with rubber bones does.
 
The new PLC for the water distribution system being is commissioned today and tomorrow. In the morning we load the program and test everything one more time before handing off control to the automation. Once that is a wrap I gotta finish up the as-builts and then I'm taking a day off to go hunt. Phew..

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Cool_Beans said:
The new PLC for the water distribution system being is commissioned today and tomorrow. In the morning we load the program and test everything one more time before handing off control to the automation. Once that is a wrap I gotta finish up the as-builts and then I'm taking a day off to go hunt. Phew..

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i don't know much about skiing and other photos you post but i sure understand that one^^ .. terminal blocks, din rail, wire way, plc, spiral wrap, wire labels... speakin my language right there!!!!!!
 
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Stoneyluv said:
i don't know much about skiing and other photos you post but i sure understand that one^^ .. terminal blocks, din rail, wire way, plc, spiral wrap, wire labels... speakin my language right there!!!!!!
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Hell yeah brotha. It's going to be a massive upgrade. The resort has never had a modern control system for managing it's water utility. Now we'll be able to monitor and manage everything from an app on our phones. More time for skiing.
 
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Stoneyluv said:
did everything go smooth? no catastrophes?
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No catastrophes, not even a hiccup really. I ran into head of snowmaking this morning (tier-1 individual) and he was super stoked and 100% in his zone. Been up all night. I work with some truly great people. He was also stoked for us and how well things went with our automation project.
 
Cool_Beans said:
No catastrophes, not even a hiccup really. I ran into head of snowmaking this morning (tier-1 individual) and he was super stoked and 100% in his zone. Been up all night. I work with some truly great people. He was also stoked for us and how well things went with our automation project.
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all that off season hard work coming into play!!!! being surrounded by good people is a culture every company wish they had but few really do!!

i read a study years ago that said Maine gets six times the amount of water needed by the state and the rest is runoff!! tough for me to fathom that kind of volume... just a few states south of you and here we are being asked to conserve water right now because of our drought.
 
Stoneyluv said:
all that off season hard work coming into play!!!! being surrounded by good people is a culture every company wish they had but few really do!!

i read a study years ago that said Maine gets six times the amount of water needed by the state and the rest is runoff!! tough for me to fathom that kind of volume... just a few states south of you and here we are being asked to conserve water right now because of our drought.
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Maine sees around 17 trillion gallons of annual precipitation, of which only ~10% is extracted from the watershed for all uses; agriculture, municipal, commercial, etc. We still have significant DEP regulatory oversight of any high volume end users. One of the objectives when designing our automation system, was to provide our engineers with real time data on our wells and usage, to enable the most efficient management of the natural resource.
My ultimate goal, is to set the standard for how a modern American ski resort manages its impact on the environment in regards to water usage, as well as what we release back into the environment, post-treatment. We really have a perfect loop, where everything we take and use, is returned back to the watershed, either through runoff or by way of effluent from the wastewater treatment plant. The wastewater treatment process in particular is absolutely fascinating in how it harnesses natural mechanisms to eliminate pathogens and break down organic matter in wastewater before returning it back clean to the waterways. In fact, just a few weeks ago I crushed my wastewater operator exam and became licensed, so I could better understand that process and more effectively manage our path toward the overall environmental goals.
 
Cool_Beans said:
Maine sees around 17 trillion gallons of annual precipitation, of which only ~10% is extracted from the watershed for all uses; agriculture, municipal, commercial, etc. We still have significant DEP regulatory oversight of any high volume end users. One of the objectives when designing our automation system, was to provide our engineers with real time data on our wells and usage, to enable the most efficient management of the natural resource.
My ultimate goal, is to set the standard for how a modern American ski resort manages its impact on the environment in regards to water usage, as well as what we release back into the environment, post-treatment. We really have a perfect loop, where everything we take and use, is returned back to the watershed, either through runoff or by way of effluent from the wastewater treatment plant. The wastewater treatment process in particular is absolutely fascinating in how it harnesses natural mechanisms to eliminate pathogens and break down organic matter in wastewater before returning it back clean to the waterways. In fact, just a few weeks ago I crushed my wastewater operator exam and became licensed, so I could better understand that process and more effectively manage our path toward the overall environmental goals.
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Do you use anything other than water to induce snow making? For some reason I seem to remember someone telling me they use some sort of chemical to help the water crystalize in the air.
 
Had two storms now so finally got to put the new tractor to work clearing my driveway. I'm so in love with the little beast..

Mountain is opening up fast, been cold and have had a decent amount of snowfall. Snowmaking has been hammering down. Automation has been a godsend, evaporated about half our daily workload on the water management side.
 
Cool_Beans said:
Had two storms now so finally got to put the new tractor to work clearing my driveway. I'm so in love with the little beast..

Mountain is opening up fast, been cold and have had a decent amount of snowfall. Snowmaking has been hammering down. Automation has been a godsend, evaporated about half our daily workload on the water management side.
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did you get your lights on the tractor?
 
Stoneyluv said:
did you get your lights on the tractor?
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Not yet, been slacking lol. I definitely need aux lighting as the loader does a fine job of blocking the headlights. I have the controller, just need to go to tractor supply and pick out the lights..I also just got some KC Flex Era 4 lights for my Jeep that I need to install. I'm headed to Autozone this morning to get a heat shrink gun and misc connectors etc so maybe I'll make a day of it and do both rigs.
 
Cool_Beans said:
Not yet, been slacking lol. I definitely need aux lighting as the loader does a fine job of blocking the headlights. I have the controller, just need to go to tractor supply and pick out the lights..I also just got some KC Flex Era 4 lights for my Jeep that I need to install. I'm headed to Autozone this morning to get a heat shrink gun and misc connectors etc so maybe I'll make a day of it and do both rigs.
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i ran into the same problem when i switched trucks, the plow blocked the lights when i lifted it,, i tried the little pods like on my atv because they worked so good but they sucked for plowing so i got a bar this year... hoping it works better.

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