Phase 1 Maintenance Facilities
Currently, the resort has no available indoor space for snowcat repair, maintenance or storage. New maintenance facilities will be constructed to facilitate the storage of grooming machines and rubber tired vehicles, lift maintenance shop, maintenance offices, etc. These buildings should be located away from the main base area but have easy access for rubber tire traffic and also easy access to the slopes for the grooming machines. Ideally, these facilities should be hidden from the public view, using existing trees as a buffer. The maintenance building will also contain the ski patrol services.
As a rule of thumb, the maintenance shop should have one bay that is approximately 800 square feet in size (25 feet by 33 feet) in size, for each grooming machine. The proposed maintenance facility will contain three bays. Two bays would likely be allocated to grooming machine maintenance with the added bay dedicated to snowmobile, rubber tire vehicle, lift maintenance, electrical maintenance, building maintenance and sign shop, etc.
These maintenance facilities should provide a washroom and employee area, as well as parts storage, which are often located in a second floor mezzanine. A fuel depot should be located adjacent to the shop for refuelling all the rubber tire and on- snow vehicles.