{"id":3383,"date":"2015-08-25T08:18:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2015-08-27T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T17:57:10","slug":"getting-ready-for-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/blog\/getting-ready-for-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for Winter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re making some exciting &#8216;behind the scene&#8217; upgrades over the summer to our snowmaking system including rerouting &amp; cooling!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pipelaying1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3386\" src=\"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pipelaying1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"pipelaying1\" width=\"169\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pipelaying1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pipelaying1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pipelaying2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3387\" src=\"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pipelaying2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"pipelaying2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pipelaying2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pipelaying2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Step one of our new snowmaking pump house is to reroute the existing pipe. Pictures show us putting the new pipe together, ready for trench and back filling.\u00a0Once done the new pump house will allow us to make snow in one continuous trail from the top of the gold chair to the day lodge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cooling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3384\" src=\"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cooling-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cooling\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cooling-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cooling-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The photo on the right is\u00a0of our\u00a0new closed loop cooling system for the snowmaking compressors, prior to this the compressors were cooled using water, eliminating this saves 800 gallons per minute. That water is now available to go up the hill for snow production and is no longer dumped back into the river.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you know?<\/strong><br \/>\nDepending on the time of year the system can produce between 1 and 2 feet of snow over an acre in an hour.\u00a0 In terms of football fields, (the north American variety and including the end zones), we can cover one of them in between an hour and a half \u00a0and 45 minutes!<\/p>\n<p>Read more about our <a href=\"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/news-info\/environment-commitment\/\">Commitment to the Environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re making some exciting &#8216;behind the scene&#8217; upgrades over the summer to our snowmaking system including rerouting &amp; cooling! \u00a0Step one of our new snowmaking pump house is to reroute the existing pipe. Pictures show us putting the new pipe together, ready for trench and back filling.\u00a0Once done the new pump house will allow us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[28,22,32,31,24,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinakiska.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}