Snowmaking
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Snowmaking equipment is incredibly expensive to build and operate. Pats Peak has more than $3,000,000 just in equipment costs for its snowmaking system.
Additionally, it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to operate. Everything depends upon your snow system.
A properly designed snowmaking system will run about 10-20% of a ski center's total operating expenses. At Pats Peak our snowmaking system costs about $800+ an hour to just to operate.
