Hello and Welcome to Make Snow dot Net,

In the early 2000s we started on my quest to make snow in our backyard with just a pressurewasher on full pressure, spraying it into the air like thousands of teenagers do every year. After countless hours of research, and many trips to the local "resort" (if you can call a few hundred feet of vertical a resort) we realized that there were two ways to make snow. To use an artificial nucleation protein that's injected into the water at the pumping station which creates lower quality snow, but is more efficient in the short term for ski areas that don't have air lines on their hills. The second way to make snow was to use compressed air to supercool small water droplets which replace the proteins in the first scenario, and the dust particles and thousands of feet that regular snow travels while it forms in nature.

From there we experimented with many forms of snowmakers, from T-guns to Fan guns to finally settling on the external mix set up that we have today and are constantly making improvements to. The 2004/2005 winter was our debut on eBay selling eGuides ( longer 20 page version of our now Free eGuides). That summer while winter was far from the minds of most other high school students, we built a website that was hosted on Geocities (Yahoo!'s free hosting service) provided additional information and images to supplement our eBay sales. It was our early efforts which had our plans featured in Make Magazine.

That winter sales took off of the eGuide, and so we worked with our suppliers to sell the nozzles, which became very popular, so much so that we had difficulty keeping them in stock. We expanded our product offerings to hoses, and continued experimenting with new designs. In winter of 2006/2007 we started experimenting with other types of snowguns now that we knew about the need for compressed air we tested several designs, finally developing an external mix snowgun which we later offered the following winter. The first set of snowmakers we made entirely ourselves, once we discovered the amount of work that went into machining, and realizing that we were now in university the time we had to devote to this growing business was much tighter. We found a machine shop that would be able to build our snowguns on CNC equipment, ensuring tight tolerances, higher quality product, and it took the pressure of machining the product off of us. We now assemble and test all of our products, however we have all of our nozzles custom made and all of our snowguns custom made, exclusively for MakeSnow.Net.

We're still in school, and running this business on the side, although during the busy season it sometimes seems like we're running a business and going to school on the side. We look forward to hearing about your exciting snowmaking adventures soon, and if you're lucky, you might even win your purchase in our Photo/Video Challenge! Thank you for taking the time to read about us.

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