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Speaker 1: Front page of the Courier yesterday. Mount Huts wrapping up

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Speaker 1: on Sunday and chasing a record season. One of the

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Speaker 1: boss men there is James Ucatz. Cheesy, Is that true?

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Speaker 1: You've had a cracker?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, morning, Luke. Yeah, we've actually had a great season,

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Speaker 2: which is which is really really nice to tell you

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Speaker 2: the truth after the last fear that we've had. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, like we got that early snow, remember right

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Speaker 2: back in sort of late May, early June, and then

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Speaker 2: it's rained on it and then it sort of locked

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Speaker 2: it in and it's saved for the whole season, and

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Speaker 2: you can currently see it right now from pretty much

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Speaker 2: any window in mid Cannary.

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Speaker 1: Look, yeah, big time, although imagine there would have been

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Speaker 1: a little bit of melt overnight given that we're waking

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Speaker 1: up with nineteen down Burnette Street here. So what do

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Speaker 1: you measure a successful season by?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, there's probably two things, really, you know, like,

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Speaker 2: well there's probably quite a few things. One of them is,

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Speaker 2: you know, you're skied numbers that you look at that

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Speaker 2: we forecast for the season. You know, you look at

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Speaker 2: and you says people are going to come skin and

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Speaker 2: ride in. And then the second thing is obviously financials,

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Speaker 2: but also one of the third thing that we probably

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Speaker 2: look at a lot as our health and safety is

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Speaker 2: one of our big measures is just making sure that

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Speaker 2: the customers and the staff and the assets are all

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Speaker 2: safe and non damage. So overall, if you look at

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Speaker 2: those three elements, then you know we can give ourselves

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Speaker 2: a big tick and say, yep, this year, twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: five finally wasn't a bad season. So yeah, I know

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Speaker 2: we're stoked. Luke.

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Speaker 1: How far up are you in terms of numbers?

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Speaker 2: Oh? You, we're just slightly up on our plan to

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Speaker 2: tell you the truth. So you know, we take anything

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Speaker 2: as one. You only need to be a few numbers above,

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Speaker 2: and we just give ourselves as a tick and and

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Speaker 2: hit the KPI and yeah, and then celebrate. So no,

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Speaker 2: we're actually we've done reasonably well to tell you the truth.

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Speaker 2: We are. We are up a little bit, and that's

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Speaker 2: purely probably because you know, July and August we actually

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Speaker 2: had a really great run of open days and as

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Speaker 2: the bonus, we've only had I think twelve closed days

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Speaker 2: this year. And I think that, you know, primearly because

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Speaker 2: of investing in snowmaking, but also to actually having that

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Speaker 2: Northwest list that designed for these harsh, windy weathers that

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Speaker 2: we get on the mountain loop.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been thinking of you lately. I want to

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Speaker 1: come back to the snowmakers in just a moment. But

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Speaker 1: do you count yourself lucky thinking to other ski fields

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Speaker 1: around the country. By the sound of it, they've had

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Speaker 1: a pretty tough time.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we feel for our cousins, you know, like

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Speaker 2: it is a pretty tough gig out there. And you know,

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Speaker 2: that's one thing that we just haven't stopped investing in

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Speaker 2: the snowmaking because you know, if the TIMPs just dropped

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Speaker 2: for about half an hour to an hour on the mountains,

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Speaker 2: you've got to be able to have a snowmaking gown

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Speaker 2: that automatically just turns on and start making snow. And

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Speaker 2: you know, and it uses that our window. If you

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Speaker 2: don't have snowmaking or you have old technology, then it's

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Speaker 2: really really hard to optimize the cold weather. And that's

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Speaker 2: what we've been investing in for the number of years

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Speaker 2: now and it's paying off.

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Speaker 1: Luke, Well, here, there's more to come over the break,

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Speaker 1: because it feels like you've only just upgraded that system yours.

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Speaker 1: I think there's beout one hundred and ten guns across

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Speaker 1: the field, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there is, And it's been one of those ongoings

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Speaker 2: to the programs that we've been doing and again this year.

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Speaker 2: You know, the appetite to invest in more snowmaking guns

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Speaker 2: is the key. You know, think of a snowmaking gun

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Speaker 2: a little bit like a jet engine, like a booing

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Speaker 2: seven eighty seven engine. They're more efficient there, They're using

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Speaker 2: less energy to produce more snow and all those sort

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Speaker 2: of things. And if you go back to an older

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Speaker 2: play with a bigger engine and older stuff, then they're

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Speaker 2: not as efficient. And that's what we're just continuing to do, Luke,

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Speaker 2: is to keep upgrading our fleet of snowmaking guns to

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Speaker 2: make sure we can be as efficient fron mentally freely.

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Speaker 2: But also they'll just fire up and make snow when

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Speaker 2: conditions allow.

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Speaker 1: It's always fun unraping new toys too, isn't it cheesy.

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Speaker 1: Here's to a cracking final few days up at Mount

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Speaker 1: Herts