More on Tenney

[skicdave]

Interesting Article and Photos (http://www.ctnow.com/news/custom/topnews/hc-tenneymountain0705.artjul05,0,2996613.story?coll=h c-big-headlines-breaking) from July 4th a Tenny Mountain.

Also check out this article in the Miami Herald (http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/6259435.htm)

[Frankontour]

Up to now, I think the little deer pic is the best ;)

http://www.tenneymtn.com/images/pictures/july12tubers/Image001.jpg

May be I go, when they'll reopen the snowpark, although jumping is just my 5th or 6th interest in skiing.

[Frankontour]

Oh... I forgot : thanx Dave for the Avatar update :)

[DMC]

Frankontour:
Up to now, I think the little deer pic is the best ;) that deer is like
"What the fa???? Snow??? It can't be hunting season already...."

[Frankontour]

Lol, Yep, the deer probably really wonder what snow does there !! it's so small that it almost looks like a big rabbit :p

It looks to be the little deers time, as I've seen one yesterday at Tremblant. Quite hard to understand that even with few thousands of persons in the mountain, I see a deer about 75-80% of the times I hike it during summer !

no snow, though :(

[elwood]

That deer looks mighty tasty!!! Mmmmm...Venison...

[Mumster]

elwood:
That deer looks mighty tasty!!! Mmmmm...Venison... Eek, elwood, don't eat venison. Chronic wasting disease (the US equivalent of mad cow disease) is rampant in US deer. Can it be passed on to humans? We don't know. But several deer hunters have died with symptoms that were suspicious.
And, it isn't inactivated by :beer: , even in the quantities you drink.

[skicdave]

I must say in the deer photo the 'run' (if you can call it that) appears to be almost solid ice. Now how do they do that? isn't it summer at Tenney?... oh but they do call it a 'glacier' don't they? :p

[Steveboarder]

Don't worry Elwood Chronic wasting disease in deer isn't a problem in the northeast... yet :eek: (or I would be dead already) So you can eat up...sorry mumster :(

[Mumster]

Steveboarder:
Don't worry Elwood Chronic wasting disease in deer isn't a problem in the northeast... yet :eek: (or I would be dead already) So you can eat up...sorry mumster :( We don't really know. Initially endemic in NE Colorado and SE Wyoming, CWD rapidly spread to free ranging deer/elk through Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, S Dakota, and we don't know where else. With deer all over, it's hard to say for sure. Agreed that CWD is more likely out west. ...
But, think of Elwood drooling, incontinent and too uncoordinated to :beermug: or :skierscared: .... not a pretty sight :( .

[DMC]

So mumster...
What kind of a Dr are you?

My Brother's a doc in the Airforce.. Flight Surgeon..
And his wife is a doc for the Army - Ortho Surgeon(hands)... Just back from Afganistan...

[elwood]

I really like venison, but if I had to stop I could. However, don't take away my wild turkeys. That's good eating!

[Frankontour]

About your question Dave, yep, it's summer of course at Tenney, but it looks like the snowmagic system is able to turn water into ice well over 60 degrees. I think the problem is more to preserve the snow, when it's on the ground.

And the big problem is really : how will they be able to blow snow on 3000' long in early october, as they produce the snow indoor and they snowgun it on the trail. If the "snow house" is at bottom of the mountain, they'll have to blow a ton of snow at the base and to groom it up to the summit. Sorry, but I begin to think it will be quite difficult for them !!!

[M@]

I'm pretty sure the picture with the deer is the rubing run. So it might not be all ice, but a very flat layer becuase no-ones turning on it, just tubing.

M@ :ducttape:

[Mumster]

M@:
I'm pretty sure the picture with the deer is the tubing run. Right again :ma: , that's their tubing run. It's good to see that they can get a base there, at least temporarily.