Sugar Bowl Ski Resort

Turn on that pump, pump a lot of water through a fan gun, as we call it, and it has hundreds of little nozzles that atomize that water and makes it turn into snowflakes.

Sugar Bowl Resort has also started machining snow.

Resorts are targeting early November to kick off ski season, potentially even opening on Halloween, and they're hoping for some extra natural snow this season to bolster the snowpack.

The general vibe that's going around is that it is supposed to be a super El Nino.

In 1939, we br- mentioned this briefly.

Men- 1939, there's this Austrian, uh, champion skier called Hans Schroll, and he wanted to open something called the Sugar Bowl Resort.

An Austrian in, uh, 1939 wanted to open something in the US because he, he, uh, he didn't have any money because someone, uh, basically locked up all of his money when he [laughs] left Austria.

Uh, it was the Nazis.

But then he reaches out to Walt Disney and said, "Hey, I really, really wanna build this ski resort." And Walt Disney was a big skier.

I didn't know this.

And so he writes him a check for $2,500 and becomes a stockholder in the Sugar Bowl Resort.

So when it opens, Schroll changes the name.

You've probably seen Goofy's Art of Skiing, that short from back in like the 30s, I think.

And he also was one of the, he helped the founder of a resort called Sugar Bowl in Tahoe.

And there's actually one of the peaks in Sugar Bowl is called Mount Disney.

And he played a huge role in the Olympics in, I think, 1960, which was held in what was then called Squaw Valley, now called Palisades in Tahoe.

So huge skiing fan, Walt Disney, and he had plans that were very, very far along to build a ski resort in California.