Sunshine Village, a progressive ski resort located in Banff, Alberta experienced real value in the productivity and performance benefits of the Hemisphere GPS’ snow grooming guidance systems. As a result, they have started to outfit their entire snowcat fleet with the guidance systems. Hemisphere GPS’ integrated GPS-based guidance terminal and antenna are easily mounted to a snowcat and are designed for tough environmental conditions. The color touch screen terminal displays guidance information and provides options to add positional referenced metadata relating to the mountain, resort assets and/or the snow cat itself. All data is stored in a job file for use in the snow cat during a shift and/or analyzed in the office. Sunshine Village realized the great potential of providing guidance information to the operators and performance information to the operations manager. “We experienced productivity improvements immediately with Hemisphere GPS’ snow grooming guidance systems,” says Rod Chisholm, Maintenance Manager at Sunshine Village Ski Resort. “The ability to review the machine and operator performance really helps in our planning and decision-making.” Read More
