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Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. is investing in more firepower this fall to help ensure snowboarders and free skiers get to play in the terrain park a little earlier this season. It's part of an announced $1.5 million capital budget.
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More efficient snowmaking heads on sleds and an extra snowcat devoted to the SoBe terrain park should help Steamboat improve on last year's mid-December opening of its terrain park. That would be welcome news among snow riders devoted to rail riding and launching from the Mavericks Superpipe.
The remaining 27 will be 15-foot tall tower guns mounted on sleds. Their portability will allow snowmaking crews to concentrate more firepower on the terrain park during the crucial time of year, Allen said.
Allen said the acquisition of the new cats would allow him to divert a second cat, in addition to the pipe dragon, to the terrain park.
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