Snowmaking job

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Jernt

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so I'm looking in to getting a job this year making snow at my mountain. Just wondring if people have worked this before and what they thought

 
ive never done it. sounds fun except youll have to work at ridiculous hours at night i would assume...

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im guessing its part of the maintenance job, you really dont do anythng to make the snow cept hook up the machines

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I'm working the day shift so for now it doesn't stay very cold in the day so we have the machines running as low as possible. The lowest setting shoots 12 gal. per second and we run it at about 200 Psi. At that rate it will still be making snow, very wet snow at 34 degrees.

 
i'm workin at park city mountain makin snow, and it's pretty sweet. My shift is midnight to noon, which sucked at first but you get used to it. there is also another shift that works noon to midnight. Makin snow is cool, you drive around on snomobiles all night and check the snow at the difft. guns to make sure they are making snow and that they aren't raining. if you want a free pass to the resort get this job because come mid january you can get unemployment and just ski all day with your free pass.

 
I work snowmaking at Hockley Valley resort in Ontario. Its an awesome job if you love snowmaking in general and can handle the cold.

Snowmaking isn't for the regulaur kinda person.. it can be a dangerous job depending on the guns your using, especially when you start to deal with fan guns with crappy nuke lines and your blowtorching stuff all night..

If your shift is starting up you would usually hook up the guns, start up the pumps, fix any guns that are frozen up or arn't pumping right and adjust them for the wind and temperatures..

At our resort if you get a midnight - > 8 am shift you usually get to move alot of guns for daytime positions off the trails and to the sides, this starts around 2'ish depending on the hill and where grooming is at the time.

and if you ever get stuck with a gun thats frozen and the waterline is full of pressure, pull, pray, run. When its full of pressure you have to try to release a hose filled with up to 300 pounds of pressure, thoe things can fly when both latches come off...

Other than that, fucking enjoy it.. its a pretty chillin job when your working with cool staff especially at smaller resorts.
 
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