The Colorado Sun Team Editor David Krause joined us Thursday to discuss a in Windsor.

started developing residential property in the Windsor area in 1995, then opened the Pelican Lakes golf course in 1999. Now, the company is adding Hoedown Hill, a ski area featuring a 130-foot vertical drop. It鈥檚 expected to have ski runs and tubing.

Krause told KUNC that while the ski area will rely on manufactured snow, Water Valley Company is working to prevent water waste.

鈥淭hey鈥檙e going to have an automated weather station that's going to be able to feed some of the water at the bottom of the hill,鈥� Krause said. 鈥淭hey're going to capture 95% of the water that they're pulling up out of the (RainDance) Reservoir.鈥�

Krause said smaller slopes like Hoedown Hill could make skiing more accessible.

鈥淭hey're kind of that entry point for a lot of families and beginners,鈥� he said. 鈥淭hat whole 鈥榖igger is better鈥� mantra doesn't always appeal to families and beginners who don't want to spend hundreds of dollars, as well as not have to deal with driving in traffic on I-70.鈥�

Ski slopes like Hoedown Hill have been tried before in the area.

鈥淚 would think a lot of your longtime listeners remember , which was a small skiing and tubing hill in Greeley that operated from the early '70s through the mid '80s,鈥� Krause said. 鈥淭hat hill was built on an old landfill.鈥�

Similar hills were opened to skiers in and in the 1960s through the 1980s.