March: It’s aliiiiiiiive!!!!

The snow pile is alive and gigantic! Since last summer, the COC has built infrastructure to support snow making down in the pit including a water pipeline, and the installation of three snow guns.

Over the past week or so, the Craftsbury Outdoors Center has pumped water down to airless snow guns to create snow. Snow falls into three large piles and then is broken up, pushed around, and shaped by Excavators and their Piston Bulley.

The breaking and reshaping of the snow pile. Photo credit: Paul Bierman
Excavator closeup. Photo credit: Paul Bierman

Now, a 9300 cubic meter pile sits in a large pit. That’s 45 times larger than our piles last year! We’re now going to let the pile compact before covering it sometime in spring with wood chips. The denser it is, the more challenging it is to melt.

I sit atop the snow pile, for scale, after scanning it.

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