Snowguns

To enhance what is already 100% coverage, Pats Peak will add energy efficient snow guns including twelve new HKD snowguns and six new fan guns. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In addition to the new snowguns, additional snowmaking pipe will be added to the Duster trail for a faster opening from the summit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The main resorts have all reported fresh snowfall, plus the sub-zero temperatures have allowed them to fire up the snowguns. ❋ Unknown (2010)

About 40,000 feet of pipeline take the water and compressed air to the more than 400 snowguns along the slopes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

* Various aliens, sleds, courses, propulsion systems and snowguns ❋ Unknown (2009)

Snowmakers must ski through race gates while carrying the snowmaking hoses, and then hook them up to snowguns at the base of the course. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The resort has also added two more snowguns to the snowmaking fleet, bringing the resort's total to 108. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The snowguns had been churning all morning on Yodeler, making it the perfect trail on which to practice all of my new technique. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Skico fired up its snowguns for the first time this season at Snowmass and Aspen Mountain, and the forecast suggests crews will be able to make snow continuously for the next two days, ❋ Unknown (2008)

With the snowguns already blowing in Colorado and yet another ski season right around the corner, I thought this week it would be fun to look at some raw ski industry statistics, if for no other reason than giving you some ammunition next time you find yourself getting into a barroom argument with someone from say, Utah or Montana, states that, just to start this column of on the right foot, combined have only two more ski areas than the entire state of Colorado. ❋ Unknown (2008)