We were waiting for natural snow.

We'd probably be waiting until February to open.

Basically, snow machines are a big fan gun connected to fire hoses.

And so the way that it works is water travels through your collection source or in our case, through the city drinking water travels through a pipe, through a fire, hoses to the machine.

And then once it gets to the machine, there's an air compressor that mixes air into the water and then the fan blows that air water mixture up into the air.

And because it has so much air in it, it's a lot of air is able to freeze and then it lands in piles and we push it around.

For us, the ideal temperature is anything below 23 degrees.

We kind of have a sweet spot, usually around like single digits.

But, you know, Mother Nature doesn't always play along.

Typically, it takes us about ten days, 10 to 14 days based on the weather to make snow.

And we really try to time things and not be wasteful with that resources because it is, you know, water from Lake Superior.

Fortunately, in our situation, you know, as it melts, it all flows into the creek and then ends up back into the lake.

And then the real resource cost there is the fact that it's treated water.

So we you know, we recognize that and we try to be good stewards of of that resource.

The Slice, from WDSE WRPT.