Originally Posted by
Tin Woodsman
Great post.
I would continue to argue (as I have for years here) that investing in fixed location fan guns makes sense on certain slugs of wide, high traffic, intermediate terrain at SB:
- Spring Fling
- Snowball
- Pushover/Slow Poke
- Birch Run
- the junction of Stein's/Lower OG/Lower Jester
- select spots on Downspout (like that wide spot where it turns to the right after the OG intersection)
- Lower Ripcord
- Inverness
- Times Square around the base of the NRX
- Northstar
- Cruiser
- Which way
- Elbow
- Lower Rim Run
Those spots comprise the majority of the most popular cruising terrain at SB, and they all have theproper width and pitch for fan guns. Fan guns have the additional benefit of consuming 0 CFM against 150 gpm, so they fit in the construct of trying to optimize with a given/fixed amount of compressed air. I think the major drawback for SB is the capital cost, but that's a business decision, not a snow surfaces decision.