Swing by our booth to learn about our new Chairlift Water Tender and E4Soft Ticketing Solutions! Trade Show: Tuesday April 15 4:30 to 6:30 Wednesday April 16 11:45 to 1:15
The 41st annualCSCUSA Snowmaking and Slope Maintenace Conference will be held April 4 – 6, 2023 in Grand Junction, CO. This is one of my favorite trade shows and the first one I went to in the 1990’s early in my career. I will be teaching a class on using your snowmaking system for fire protection. CHS Snowmakers is a Silver Sponsor. I hope to see you there. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/41st-annual-snowmaking-slope-maintenance-conference-trade-show-tickets-546581639397
CSCUSA Snowmaking and Slope Maintenance Conference
We just completed one of the coolest jobs ever! We provided a snow tubing hill for the NBA on TNT for the All Star game in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Park City Chamber of Commerce called us in January and put me in touch with Katherine with Warner Media. She told me what they wanted to do and I said “that is easy.” I ordered three brand new snow tubes from Idaho Sewing for Sports, Inc. They were able to make us a red one, a white one and a blue one (NBA colors) and print the Kia America logo in record time. Noah and I spent the week in Salt Lake City and hired Vick Byer Construction from Park City to haul the snow. He brought down 8 side dumper truck loads of good clean Park City area snow. That is roughly 200 yards of snow in 2.5 days. Warner Media provided us with a Bobcat tracked skid loader from Sunbelt Rentals. Even though a skid loader won’t groom snow as nicely as a snowcat, it did the job pretty well. The Complex site is one of three sites for the NBA All Star Game. The amount of […]
CHS Snowmakers built a snow tubing hill in Salt Lake ...
Cheap Insurance for Tubing Hills (aka USED EQUIPMENT!) Stand alone snow tubing hills can be highly profitable but they can also incur considerable expenses. Liability insurance can be difficult to secure if the tubing hill is not under a ski area umbrella and to purchase it can be a higher-than-expected percentage of your budget. I will discuss liability insurance in another post at a later date. Did you know you can insure your operation against shutting down with used equipment? This is not a policy you purchase and file a claim against, this is having a backup plan. Most start up tube hills can’t purchase all new equipment, the economics don’t always add up. Purchasing used equipment is typically the best way to open a new tubing hill. Operating with used equipment can be a gamble, so you need to have a back up plan if that equipment breaks a few days before Christmas. When I do consulting on snow tubing hills, there are a few things I suggest. A snowmaking system should have two pumps, even if you only need one 90% of the time. If the pump breaks down, it can be weeks if not months […]
Cheap Insurance for Tubing Hills (aka USED EQUIPMENT!)
Join us at the MSAA Trade Show August 21 – 24, 2022 – This is going to be a great trade show and I can’t wait to catch up to everyone. Located at the Shanty Creek Resort in Bellaire, MI. I will introduce two new products, a great new Joka winter glove and our line of rigid snowmaking hose options. Here is a link for information and registration. https://www.msaaevents.org/MSAA/Summer_Meeting___Trade_Show/MSAA/SMTS/SMST_General_Info.aspx?hkey=419f7b74-eb3e-471d-b300-a1e7f1d22c75
Join us at the MSAA Trade Show August 21 – ...
CHS Snowmakers is ramping up hose repair. We recently received shipments of new cam lock fittings and parts for repairing hose. Contact us about questions if your hose should be repaired or replaced. We have a few tips to reduce your repair and shipping costs. New hose is on order with expected delivery in early September. July 18, 2022 Thanks, Jason Sawin CHS Snowmakers
Hose Repair Season
We are excited to announce we now offer 1.5″ rigid snowmaking hose in custom lengths for your snowmaking. These hoses are non-collapsing with a pressure rating of 1000 psi, coupled with MNPT ends. We spin on either 1.5″ or 2″ 750 psi cam locks and ship them out to you from Idaho. Safe working pressure of 750 psi. Contact us for a custom quote. CHSsnowmakers@gmail.com Thanks, Jason Sawin CHS Snowmakers July 18, 2022
Rigid Hose – CHS Snowmakers now offers custom length rigid ...
Attention: Ski Area Owners and Operators I am looking for old manuals for snowguns, snowcats, and lifts. If you have any taking up space in your office that you would like to donate or loan to me, please let me know. I will pay for shipping and make sure they are copied to a digital format. By donating or selling your old manuals to me, you will be helping preserve the history of the old resort equipment. I will be starting a library of all the manuals and they will be available for free, online, for future generations. Please contact me if you have any old manuals that you would like to donate or sell to me for my project!