Snowmaking at Boyne Mountain
Snowmaking at Boyne Mountain – Photos – 2019 / 2020
FROM Boyne Mountain Resort >> 📢 In case you haven't heard, we've got a hike park on Victor Glacier this Saturday
$5 tickets - bit.ly/459bbyP
Open 9am-3pm
4-6 fresh features built and ready
Every dollar goes directly to Surf the Earth MHC 💙
Come hike some laps 🏂 #boynemountain #snowphotos #boynemountainsnow #SkiMichigan📢 In case you haven't heard, we've got a hike park on Victor Glacier this Saturday
$5 tickets - bit.ly/459bbyP
Open 9am-3pm
4-6 fresh features built and ready
Every dollar goes directly to Surf the Earth MHC 💙
Come hike some laps 🏂
FROM Boyne Mountain Resort >> When Bohemia meets Boyne, something magical happens. ✨ Shredding the last snow of the season with our favorite powder hounds. 🤝 #boynemountain #snowphotos #boynemountainsnow #SkiMichigan
FROM Boyne Mountain Resort >> 🏔️❄️ VICTOR'S LAST STAND! 🏂⛷️
THE END IS HERE! Victor's magnificent glacier is taking its final bow this weekend, May 17-18 from 9am-1pm. After an incredible extended season, this is absolutely your LAST CHANCE to make skiing history before it all melts away!
Hit the Halfway House between final runs, then help us go out with a BANG at Saturday's BOHO BASH celebration. Morning powder turns, afternoon festival vibes - the perfect sendoff to an unforgettable season! Thank you to our monumental crew for keeping the season alive. 💙 #boynemountain #snowphotos #boynemountainsnow #SkiMichigan🏔️❄️ VICTOR'S LAST STAND! 🏂⛷️
THE END IS HERE! Victor's magnificent glacier is taking its final bow this weekend, May 17-18 from 9am-1pm. After an incredible extended season, this is absolutely your LAST CHANCE to make skiing history before it all melts away!
Hit the Halfway House between final runs, then help us go out with a BANG at Saturday's BOHO BASH celebration. Morning powder turns, afternoon festival vibes - the perfect sendoff to an unforgettable season! Thank you to our monumental crew for keeping the season alive. 💙
FROM Boyne Mountain Resort >> WEEKLY GLACIER CHECK: Victor's still showing up for work when everyone else called in for summer! Our glacier meter confirms - spring turns are ON for this weekend's Boho Bash. 💥🏂
Saturday's lineup:
⛷️ Morning Slush Rush: Boho passholders ski FREE at Boyne Mountain from 9am-1pm
🌊 Afternoon Splash Bash: Pool takeover at Clock Tower Lodge (2-4pm) for ALL Boho and Boyne Michigan passholders
🍕 Beats & Eats: DJ dropping tracks on Stein's patio + FREE PIZZA (Thanks, Lonie!)
🏄♂️ BONUS: First 100 Boho passholders score FREE Avalanche Bay day passes for their 20th birthday weekend!
Sunday:
🏂 Still riding 9am-1pm #boynemountain #snowphotos #boynemountainsnow #SkiMichigan
FROM Boyne Mountain Resort >> Swimsuits? Boring. We're rocking ski boots in May. 🎿🤝
Victor Glacier is still delivering the goods when other mountains are just memories. #boynemountain #snowphotos #boynemountainsnow #SkiMichigan
FROM Boyne Mountain Resort >> 🏔️ GLACIER UPDATE: Victor's still showing off! 💪
We've lost a couple feet but there's plenty of snow left for amazing spring turns this weekend.
⏰ Open Saturday & Sunday: 9am-1pm
➡️ Skier's right: Four park features
⬅️ Skier's left: The Wiggle
🌸 In honor of Mother's Day, we're offering FREE skiing for all moms on Sunday (redeemable at the ticket window).
☀️ Weather's looking perfect for those spring turns and halfway house hangouts.#boynemountain #snowphotos #boynemountainsnow #SkiMichigan
FROM Boyne Mountain Resort >> Two pups, one mission: ensure Victor is in tip-top shape for you.
Bruce and Sprocket take their mountain responsibilities very seriously (in between snow zoomies). 🐾❄️ #boynemountain #snowphotos #boynemountainsnow #SkiMichigan
FROM Boyne Mountain Resort >> Pushing past impossible. Weekend turns await on the Victor Glacier. 🏂⛷️ #boynemountain #snowphotos #boynemountainsnow #SkiMichigan
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Congratulations to all the two-terrain champions who proved versatility is the ultimate sporting superpower. #boynemountain #snowphotos #golfphotos #boynemountainsnow #SkiMichigan
FROM Boyne Mountain Resort >> May-be we're crazy, but when Victor Glacier is still 10 feet deep, we call it seizing the moment. 🙌 Park features on Skier's right for the airtime addicts, Wiggle intact for the flow seekers.🏂 May riding at Boyne Mountain: because we can. 😎
Slope hours: Saturday & Sunday 9am-1pm #boynemountain #snowphotos #boynemountainsnow #SkiMichigan
FROM Boyne Mountain Resort >> When others fold, Boyne holds! Thanks Mount Bohemia for the shoutout - your 314 inches of natural snow is truly impressive! 🏅
Our snowmaking team has worked magic to keep Victor and Ramshead open into May. Spring skiing isn't always pretty, but the diehards know - any day on snow beats a day off snow. Weekends only until the snow waves the white flag! 💙🏂 #boynemountain #mountbohemia #snowphotos #boynemountainsnow #SkiMichigan
FROM Boyne Mountain Resort >> Spring riding is ON at Boyne Mountain. ☀️❄️
239 acres, 5 lifts spinning, and a freshly rebuilt park this weekend. Let's go! 🏂 #boynemountain #snowphotos #boynemountainsnow #SkiMichigan
FROM Boyne Mountain Resort >> While you dream about tomorrow's hits, we're out perfecting them. 😴🏂 #boynemountain #snowphotos #boynemountainsnow #SkiMichigan
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The Midwest’s Best Snow is at BOYNE!
Throughout Michigan and the Midwest, the BOYNE name is synonymous with outstanding snow. And at Boyne Mountain, we’re proud to be a vital part of that legacy.
Since the 1950s, we have maintained our commitment to snowmaking – and to the constant refinement of both our equipment and our techniques. As years passed, our demands outpaced the industry, leading us to become snowmaking innovators in the mid-1970s, when we filed our first snowmaking patents.
Through our consistent dedication and investment – with intensified efforts over the course of the past three years – BOYNE now has the largest, most efficient snowmaking system in the Midwest. At Boyne Mountain, that difference is clear. And the addition of proprietary Boyne Low-E fan guns has helped us to better mimic natural snow, securing our place as one of the region’s top winter vacation destinations, with Michigan’s most reliable skiing and snowboarding, all season long.
Why the New Boyne Low-E Fan Snowmaking Guns make BOYNE a Superior Winter Vacation Destination?
BOYNE has become well known for being one of Michigan’s most popular winter vacation destinations. Our snowmaking ability is one of the many reasons why. Snowmaking essentially consists of pulling water from a reservoir or water source, pumping it onto the mountain, and combining it with compressed air to convert as much water into frozen snow crystals as possible. The frozen particles settle to the ground and any water droplets that do not freeze, drain through the surface.
So what makes BOYNE snowmaking unique? The difference is in design modifications made to the newest snowmaking guns in our fleet – hence the unveiling of the Boyne Low-E fan gun. The Boyne Low-E gun is more efficient than ever at converting water into snow crystals – especially at marginal temperatures (above 25 degrees). This greatly improves snow quality and lessens icy build-up while boosting energy and water efficiencies, more than any previous technology. Over 250 of these new guns are making snow this winter at BOYNE, representing a significant percentage of the terrain coverage and resulting in the ability to stay one of Michigan’s top choice for family winter vacation – whether Mother Nature provides the snow or we do.
The core of the Boyne Low-E fan gun includes a new seeder and manifold design that when combined with the augmented barrel shape, leads to improved mixing of the seed with water from the spray nozzles. Thus, we can create a lighter, low moisture snow that dramatically enhances surface conditions. The magical transformation of water to snow requires all processes to work in conjunction.
With the Boyne Low-E fan gun, compressed air is injected with a very small amount of water in an inner ring at the center of the gun. This compressed air/water mixture then freezes as it’s propelled by the fan and nucleates with water from the outside nozzles creating crystals. The extended and tapered nose cone adds about 18 inches to the overall length and improves expansion cooling as the air leaves the gun. The greater the expansion cooling, the more water freezes. The unique shape and additional length raises velocity and distributes snow further allowing more hang time for powdery snow. However, the true secret weapon in this snow gun is the exclusive Boyne designed water bath technology that is capable of yielding higher production output while achieving lower energy consumption. The combination of each of these modifications has created a one-of-a-kind fan gun only found at Boyne’s North American resorts – making this winter vacation destination an obvious choice.
The composition of the proprietary Boyne Low-E fan gun is courtesy of BOYNE’s snowmaking masterminds and our long-time friends from the world’s leading snow gun manufacturer, SMI of Midland, Michigan. Each new Low-E fan gun is built on resort grounds and previous models are reclaimed and converted with the necessary upgrades.
Snowmaking at BOYNE continues to be one of the many reasons we are Michigan’s top winter vacation destinations. Our snowmaking abilities make it possible to keep skiing and snowboarding conditions ideal so guests can utilize every minute on the slopes.
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