If you look across the valley, there's just absolutely no snow on any of these hills.

This is my eighth winter, and I've never seen such a warm year.

The natural snow is slim to none, so it's all manmade snow that we're on out here.

You wouldn't be skiing if it wasn't for snowmaking this year anyway.

This is the race course, La Belle.

We just turned off a couple of guns up there.

We finished up.

You can see the cat kind of moving in, ever get those guns off line for, if we're low, we're adjusting th and trying to get up to speed.

on, la belle that we're blowing on, I think there's about 28 or 30 hydrants so we can run about, you know, 30 guns.

high pressure air and also lots of water.

Those two things mixed with, low temperature and typically a lower humidity, makes great snow.

we're not a huge operation a lot of our snowmaking is using ground guns and some stuff that is older than me.

it's a labor intensive process, but we've chose to invest in that versus other major players are spending money on, a lot of automation the weather is is getting, you know, less favorable for snowmaking.

So we need to get more efficient and be able to leverage those windows better, or else there is a future where, you know, Colorado is full of resorts that are no longer operating.

we are on the front lines of making sure Eldora is not one of those.