Grooming Hogadon inside the cab PistenBully 400 Snowcat

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[@LB-kc8nc]

Great video. I’m a new subscriber and old groomer(like 35 years ago). Hope to see more of your adventures. Thanks!

[@snocatfun]

Hi LB thank you for watching and for the very nice comment. I to started grooming in the early 70's in Colorado (Ski Cooper Leadville CO.), Oregon (Mt. Ashland - Ashland OR) and Pennsylvania (Ski Round Top -Lewisbeery PA) and I even owned my own Thiokol 2100-B snowcat (Channel picture me with my 2100-B cat). I've been grooming at Hogadon Basin Ski Area for 9 going on 10years this season. I started grooming there after I retired LOL something to do in the winter and then have my summers off! Cheers; Markus

[@LB-kc8nc]

Thanks for replying Markus. That’s a great grooming resume. I started in the ski business in the mid 70s and worked through the late 80s at Big Vanilla ski resort in the NY southern Catskills mountains. I groomed for about the last 5 years of that time. I started on a 2100 which had a standard transmission. Fun stuff down shifting going up a steep hill. We then got a DMC 2700, which was a hybrid of the 2100 and 3700. Still mechanical drive and pull type implements to groom with but it was a diesel with an Allison automatic transmission. And I ended up finally in a PB. I think it was something like a 240 or 280. I left the ski business for a “real” job and retired from that a few years ago. I got a offer to groom at an area near me, not far from Roundtop, called Whitetail. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it work due to logistics and I was unable to accept the position. Any way it’s great meeting you, I appreciate you posting the videos, and I live vicariously through you. 😂
Be safe, Lloyd

[@snocatfun]

@@LB-kc8nc Wow thanks Lloyd it sounds like we were cut from the same cloth. I first started grooming with Thiokol IMP and Spryte (no blade) with pull behind rollers at Cooper and then graduated to the 2100 (no blade but had a folding dresser bar) and Spryte (with blade) at Ashland plus numerous Tuckers as they let us demo all the new machines from Medford right next door to Ashland. I even got to go to the 1974 Serra Ski Area Association Winter Snow Grooming Seminar in Reno with Jim Tucker and demo their new machines. We few down in his private plane (way cool for a kid just out of school). At Round Top again it was 2100 too and like you said these were all manual machines but I think the 2100 at Round Top had an automatic transmission. I to have been around the old 2700 and 3700 DMC / LMC machines with the 3208 Cat's and those got us into the hydrostatic drive's. When I purchased my Thiokol 2100-B (I restored it from the ground up) I volunteered my time and machine to help the Natrona County Parks Department (here in Casper) groom and maintain their Cross-country Ski Trails, I mostly just moved snow and drifts as I only had a blade and drag and couldn't set tracks for skiers. That was pretty cool they gave me a place to park my machine in the winter and they paid for the fuel and I got to play with my cat. When I first started here at Hogadon it was with a PB 200 and PB Edge/300 and now moved up to the PB 400 they purchased new a couple of years ago. These PistenBully cats were the first machines that I ever ran that had tillers and that was a great improvement over pull behinds and drags (there was a learning curve). Over the years there have been uncounted Tuckers of all models but I can't say that we ever used them for grooming mostly maintenance machines. Again thanks Lloyd for the comments Cheers; Markus