Weekend At Blue

I'm spending the weekend up at Blue Mountain with Teri and some friends. I'm looking forward to snowboarding and just hanging out. Want to know some Blue Mountain facts? (Sadly they were not given in metric.)

Winter Facilities
- 251 acres of skiable terrain

- Additional 50 acres, presently closed for future development
- 35 skiing/snowboarding trails
- Approximately 1,482 feet above sea level (top elevation)
- 720 foot vertical

- 2 1/2 miles wide

- Longest run - 4,000’ (3/4 of a mile)
- 14 lifts
- Lift Capacity of 21,690 skiers per hour

Snowmaking:
- Largest snowmaking system in Canada

- 13,000 gallons per minute

-1 ft. acre of snow/16 min
- 94% snowmaking coverage, 236 acres
- Full capacity at all temperatures below –6oC

Snowmaking System:
- 32 miles of steel pipe buried beneath the frost line
- Four 5,000 CFM air compressors at 150 PSI
- Twelve l,000 U S GPM water-pumps
- Three reservoirs with 45,000,000 gallon capacity in total
- 455 snow guns including:

--- 420 HKD Fixed Tall Tower guns

--- 10 Mobile Tower Guns
--- 25 Sled Mounted Guns

- 180 guns can be operated at one time
- 3 km of water pipeline from Georgian Bay

Grooming Equipment:
- 6 Bombardiers MP (Micro Processor)
- 1 “HPG” Pipe Grinder half pipe grooming attachment.
- 1 Winch Cat Groomer
- Every trail is groomed nightly

- Unique double pass-angled raking system

It is going to to be a good weekend!