Snow Making Commences at Snow Park NZ
Lake Wanaka, New Zealand (June 2, 2010) – Snow Park NZ officially started winter operations with the commencement of pre-season snowmaking last night.
Coupled with a blanket of natural snow and sub-zero temperatures, the snow guns ignited at 8pm last night.
“This is the earliest we’ve ever turned our snowmaking system on,” said Sam Lee, Snow Park NZ Operations Manager. “These cold temperatures will allow us to continue our snowmaking offering guests access to a wide variety of terrain from the first day of the season.”
Complimenting the early snowmaking is the arrival of the the newly purchased Global Cutter - a New Zealand designed Olympic standard 22ft halfpipe cutter. The Global Cutter will allow the halfpipe to open even earlier than years before.
“The Global Cutter requires less snow, meaning that the pipe can open earlier and for more days during the season.” said Lee.
The 22ft halfpipe is scheduled to be running on opening day.
Over the past summer, guns have been repositioned to cover more terrain including an increased focus on the halfpipe as well as on the new learner’s area, providing first class conditions for those learning to ski and snowboard this year.
Snow Park NZ opens to the public from June 26th to October 2nd, 2010.
Pre-season passes are available for purchase on the Snow Park NZ website www.snowparknz.com. Snow Park’s pre-season sale closes on the 10th June, 2010.
About Snow Park
Snow Park NZ is situated 35km (40 mins) from Wanaka and 55km (1 hour) from Queenstown and has been open for business since 2002. Over that time Snow Park NZ has evolved into a unique destination. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or it’s your very first time on snow, Snow Park NZ offers the total winter experience. With a new 22ft halfpipe, quarterpipe, boxes, rails, jumps and the dedicated learner’s area, there is something for everyone. Sledding, night riding, roaring fires, dining, accommodation, amazing sunsets and much more. Snow Park NZ works on a simple formula combining an unbeatable location with a cutting edge snow-making system and friendly staff. Music blasts from our speakers all day. The incredible sunsets and relaxed kiwi attitudes are free. www.snowparknz.com
We are planning to reopen tomorrow 11/09/2010 from noon – 9pm. We are still making snow and tonight looks awesome to really lay it down. We’ve been battling with west winds which is not ideal for our snow making setup. As a result the plan is to rebuild a park off of the Castle Peak [...]
Hey Park Riders, Some great pow riding over the last with almost 90 cm's in the last 7 days. This has also given Marty, Dave and their teams of park builders lots of good building material so the parks continue to grow. We are expecting lots more snow over the weekend and have the Blackcomb Park loaded up with snow guns so we will be ready when we have good snow making temps...
Hey Park Riders, Some great pow riding over the last few days with almost 90 cm's in the last 7. This has also given Marty, Dave and their teams of park builders lots of good building material so the parks continue to grow. We are expecting lots more snow over the weekend and have the Blackcomb Park loaded up with snow guns so we will be ready when we have good snow making temps...
Sorry for the lack of reports form the the world of Boreal's parks, we been just a little busy these last two days. Here's the most recent update...it snowed a ton and now it is colder than you can imagine. The snow making has been running wide open since Sat morning and this now 5 day long snow making session has been the most productive in Boreals history. As of today we have enough snow for the superpipe, we are about one day away from opening the lower half of the Acceletron Jump line, the upper half should open with the superpipe sometime next week, and the lower night park will open on Friday.
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