Saturday, September 17, 2011
Sunday River Trade Show 9-15
On Thursday Sept 15 Practicum Class went to the Sunday River Trade show. Met some very cool people, who are known throughout the industry. My favorite person that I spent some time talking to was Josh, from Piston Bully. I asked the question, " How is your company incorporating going green into your groomers?" His response, " We have been making the engines more efficient, and adding components to clean up the exhaust, but all these changes cost about $40,000 per machine." Patti Dykeman at Leitner Poma was discussing their recent projects, the biggest is the 6 person high speed bubble quad, the first on the east coast, at Mount Snow. The next project which her company is working on is the high speed quad at Burke Mountain which has a ramifications for us. I thought this chair was bought from Ascutney and wasn't new, but she filled us in that its a brand new chair lift that they bought from them, which I thought was awesome!!
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I also talked to Patti Dyke man from Leitner- Poma about their new 6 person high speed bubble chairlift. It was very interesting to hear a womans point of view about lifts! I think we also need to take a trip up to Mount Snow soon to check out their new lift. That would be great!
ReplyDeleteThe point about the groomers going green is pretty interesting. With the hours they spend grooming on the mountain these days to cover as much terrain as possible its important that they have clean emissions.
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