Tee House, #6 Green and Ice Skating

The Tee House construction continues to progress with the services to be installed by directional drilling in the near future. By services I mean the sewage, water, power, natural gas and communication connections. Windows are scheduled to be installed soon as well. The picture below is from December 19. The picture is a mirror image though due to my lack of computer skills

We will be clearing the snow off the ice on #10 in the early January. It is in rough shape at present so we will have to flood the surface for a week or so before it can be "tested" for skating. The ice was still unsafe to be on as off the past week. The predicted cold weather over Christmas season should create safe conditions.

We have been monitoring the air temperatures under the large bubble wrap and ice shield covering the 6th green. Temperatures have been fairly constant at -1.4 to -1.2 C. Probably the same as every other area on the course. The 20 or so inches of snow cover acts as a very good insulator to hold in heat radiating from below the surface. We have been blowing in fresh air under the cover approximately every 10 days (just to be sure). The following video shows the snow rising and cracking along the air tubes and rising a few feet on the front half of the green. When the blowers are shut off the forced air diffuses laterally under the ice shield as the weight of the snow cover pushes the tarp back down.The next time out I will peek under the edge of the cover where we are blowing the air in and see whats up under there. So far so good.

Wishing all of you Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Wade, Eric, Dave, Ian and Maureen