Wednesday, December 7, 2011

It's a Yurt

Yurts are round and this one has a 30’ diameter, providing about 700 square feet of space. The outside walls are eight feet high and come to a 13 foot peak at the top. The structure consists of a wood lattice frame, wrapped in a durable weather tight material. The new yurt at McCauley Mountain will have two doors and three windows with an R14 insulation value.

McCauley Mountain will be hosting the Kandahar races for the next two years. This particular event involves about 200 skiers from around the region, plus their equipment, coaches and families. The space in the yurt would be very helpful, since this number of people would be difficult to accommodate in the existing chalet.





Read more about it at http://www.adirondackexpress.com/08162011_skiclubs

15 comments:

  1. is this a smokers tent/?

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  2. It's going to be used by the ski club and to do registration for races.

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  3. Steve,

    That is the same as the ones they use in Yellow Stone National Park for snowmobilers at Old Faithful, we had a box lunch in there. not real warm but takes the chill off. they had about 8 of them.

    pat

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  4. yurt?????? i thought that was yellow snow and dirt jerry

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  5. just saw some pics on facebook of sledfreak braking trails at tug hill....i think its gunna stick around and it will make good base...hope theres alot by christmas break...i want to go up....check out the pics if you have sledfreak or tug hill snowmobiling as a friend.

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  6. Are you sure ? Think Tim Conway named it"yurt"?
    ...NOa snow..thatsa hurt.

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  7. Gonna be a short riding season this year :(

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  8. whats with the negative waves!

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  9. it's been very mild, lets hope that changes!!!

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  10. Not being negative - it is what it is! Currently raining in town and I almost see flowers at this point what? on 12/16 = not good! Hey I'll just have to get my 2500 miles in over 9-10 weeks I suppose. I'm guessing 1/15/12 or so will finally be the start to the riding season in and around OF

    I feel bad for the businesses missing out already!

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  11. miles..miles...miles...who cares !!!

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  12. I don't think Ticket Tim is being negative, he is just stating the facts, I cant remember a time in the past 8 years, not being in Old Forge, between Xmas and New years. It was not always the best conditions, but at least there were conditions. This sucks beyond sucking. Hope the arctic air comes soon, this 40 - 50 degree weather on the east bites, big time.

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  13. Can't believe we had to bite bullet and cancel our Christmas break stay. The kids are all upset. hope weather changes soon

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  14. rose send scotty b up to canada.to take a big dump.it might push the cold air to us/////////////////////////////

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