i read a post a while ago about something like this, why hasnt it happened?
what would it take?
why doesnt someone do this?

We love this sport so much and because of the crappy winters we have been having it is making us pay payments all year on something we might get to use for 2 months. it is also causing us terrible resale and the list of negatives go on.

why cant someone come up with something that would work with mobile snowmaking equipment? charge more for permits or whatever you know we will pay it, the factories could pay towards it as well.

i think its a great idea. your lawn could be green but go out to the trailheads and boom white snow covered trails, I love it!!!

thoughts????????

I think that would take a lot of water to be caried around with it.

The price to operate a snow maker is large, that is why the one at haliburton forest is rarely if ever used.

Ive heard that the snowmobile industry is a 9 billion a year industry. Couldnt some of that profit go into making it better for us to trail ride?

Put big ole fire truck water tanks on there too for the water then. Come on!!

Maybe I just am sick of looking at the 50 degree weather and green grass here in Michigan on December 19th.

Takes way too long to accumulate enuf snow!! It would have to be stationary for periods of time to get good snow cover, water supplies would have to be VERY PLENTIFUL

How bout a few thousand miles of underground pipeing with refridgerant running through it! Turn it on and flood the trail.
Wheeee!

I think it sounds like a great idea, but as other have said, I just don't think it is feasible

we cover quite a bit of ground on a sled, in a very short time and there is no way a groomer/maker could keep up. It works at a ski resort because the area is rather small compared to the trails we can cover in just an hour or two...

keep thinking though - we gotta come up with something!

how about something that can keep snow frozen up to say 45 degrees F. It could be spread by groomers as they groom... it would have to be an anti-salt!

just dreaming!

It would be impossible to have a snowgun mounted on a groomer since it takes huge amounts of water and that water has to be pressurized which requires a lot of power. However i think that on some bridges a land mounted snowgun could be used to keep the bridge white.