CHS Snowmakers Favorite Links & Snowmaking Articles

Snowmaking Articles

Check out ski conditions from around North America.

• Alpine Zone ski conditions:
  

• California ski area conditions:
  SKI CALIFORNIA

• Canada ski area conditions:
   

• Check out Colorado ski conditions:
  

• Check out New England's ski conditions:
  

• New Mexico has great snow:
  

• North Carolina has several ski areas:
  

• Utah - The best powder on Earth:
  

• Washington has many ski areas to choose from:
  

• Montana has big snow:
  

• Wyoming is also a great ski state:
  

Other favorite links

• Alternative fuel locator - Bio Diesel, E-85 gasoline, etc
  

• Get a great weather forecast for your area:
  

• The Chairlift Preservation Society:

            www.chairlift.org

• Colorado Ski History:
  
• Craigs List - the place to find things and sell things for free, look for job, etc.
  craigslist
• Cross Country Ski Areas Association CCSAA:

• Frazier Ski & Pack,  they sell a lot of outdoor stuff:

• This little ski area in Colorado has produced numerous Olympians since 1913:
  Howelsen Hill
   

• Great Christian music:
  
  

• The knowledge site for snowmaking technology and innovation for ski resorts, cross-country ski areas, snow tubing hills and special projects.

• What is the weather history in your area of the United States?
  
   
• Ski and snowboard Clinics for those that want to be the best around.

• Ski Index - Access nearly any ski area info in the world for Alpine and XC ski.

• Storm Peak Lab, weather research at the top of Steamboat Ski Area:
  The Desert Research Institute's STORM PEAK LABORATORY
  
   
• Tool King has many discounted name brand tools available online (affiliate):

• Growing Season Map-  Find out your snowmaking zone:
  USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
  
   
• Order a weather station (affiliate):
  

Other Colorado Ski Areas:

Lake City

Hesperus Ski Area
 

Snowmaking Articles: (newest articles at bottom)

Summit Daily, Snowmaking at Frisco Nordic, December 25, 2003.

Steamboat Pilot, thankful for snowmaking on Thanksgiving November 30, 2003.  

Summit Daily, Keystone wants to build a snowmaking reservoir, March 4, 2004.

Killington turns the guns back on for spring, March 11, 2004

Frisco Nordic Center closes due to warm weather, earliest ever. March 19th, 2004
Also watch a video on 9News about Frisco Nordic Center closing.

Snowmaker tries to set world record vertical feet skied.  Summit Daily, June 14, 2004

Arapahoe Basin closes June 13th, snowmaking gave them many more weeks of skiing.  Summit Daily, June 13, 1004  

Arapahoe Basin has second best season ever due to snowmaking.  Summit Daily July 9, 2004.

Loveland Ski Areas chair 9 not highest in the world anymore, Denver Post August 6, 2004.

EPA looks at Keystones streams, Summit Daily News August 8, 2004.

Year Round Skiing Around the Corner, Summit Daily News August 30, 2004.

A-Basin, Loveland race for first tracks, Summit Daily News September 8, 2004.

Sunday River improves...snowmaking, Ski Press World, September 18, 2004.

Snowmaking kicks off in Summit, Summit Daily News September 22, 2004.

Snow Valley Ski Area in Southern California for sale for $7 million, Ski Press News, Oct 6, 2004.

Sugarloaf, Killington Turn the Guns On Ski Press News, Oct 6, 2004.

Xanadu Snowdome Breaks Ground with Expert Help of Mountain Creek Snow Magic system to be used, Ski Press News, Oct 7, 2004.

Loveland Ski Area opens, first in the nation, Summit Daily News October 15th, 2004.

Ski Season Opens, Summit Daily October 15th, 2004.

Steamboat and Howelsen prepare to make snow, Steamboat Pilot, October 23, 2004.

Humidity hinders snowmaking, Steamboat Pilot, November 17, 2004.

Bleak Forecast for ski industry, Rocky Mtn News, March 19, 2005.

A billion-dollar industry built one flake at a time, Colorado Springs Outdoors,

Still waiting for Squaw Pass, Canyon Courier June 8, 2005

Snow Valley makes snow, September 12, 2005, SAM

Snowmaking Bottlenecks, September 21, 2005, SAM

Whistler makes snow, September 21, 2005 Summit Daily News

Loveland Makes Snow, September 23, 2005 Summit Daily News

CHS Snowmakers gives away a night of snowmaking for a White Christmas, Google News, November 6, 2005 

It's all about character, LA Times Dec 6, 2005 Mt Baldy Ski Area 
(will need to register with LA Times to view).

White Christmas give away, Denver Post, December 2005

A Snow Job Like No Other, LA Times Dec 23, 2005 Mt High snowmaking crews
(will need to register with LA Times to view).

Make snow in the backyard, CHS Snowmakers article in Newsday.com December 27, 2005.

Denver Post article on the Cornice Snowmaker, February 19, 2006

Mountain trenched with snow in mind, September 1, 2006, new pipe from Austria

Snowmaking a Go, Summit Daily Jan 23, 2007

The snowmakers of New England ski country, Christian Science Monitor March 14, 2007

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