It's tough. You're sort of in shock. I just can't get over the fact, whether it's my grandmother or not, but the respect of our elders, just to brutally do that.

I always had a love for the '34.

The advantage of the tower gun, other than the superb snowmaking, is it allows us to place them in stationery positions around the mountain. This allows our snowmakers to focus on other key areas on the hill using the ground guns and fan guns.

[Friday] my mother and her sister had to identify the body, which is one of those things you never expect to do. And [today] they'll have to clean up the house from all the blood. Once those things are done, we're going to sit down and figure out what the next step should be.