andyzee
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Date(s) Skied: April 22, 2006
Resort or Ski Area: Killington
Conditions: Firm, groomed, death cookies
Trip Report: I think I will forever refer to this weekend as the ASC Follies. I think this company has either hit a new low in management or a new high in comedy. It's hard to believe that there was only one lift servicing 2 runs and they couldn't get it to work nor could they get the trails into a safe condition.
The morning started with basically one run, it was a combination of Skylark to High Road, to Bittersweet, wow, that 3 trails by ASC's count. This run was firm with death cookies a plenty from the crappy job of grooming that K has been doing during the end of the season.
Superstar was closed first thing in the morning, I thought this was ASC's way of saying "Screw you" to it's customers. I mean how can the season at Killington end without Superstar? However they did finally reopen it around 10-10:30. Superstar was basically a trail within a trail. They had groomed a strip down the middle of Superstar and basically this was all you could ski. If you went off this trail, you would hit death cookies caused by Cat tracks and a bad job of grooming. A lot of people were complaining that the trail was too solid. For the most part these were people without edges on their skis.
OK, for the good part, and yes actually it wasn't all that bad.
These were probably my last lift serviced runs of the season. Although conditions were as I described them above, I had good edges on my skis and I totally enjoyed my last four runs of the season. I was very tempted to get more in but that was difficult for two reasons:
1. My wife had injured herself skiing last weekend and couldn't ski this week. I felt bad skiing while she was stuck at the base.
2. I got stuck on the lift for about 20-30 minutes. Saturday the lift was literally down, more than it was running. I didn't want to take a chance going up and getting stuck again.
Ended skiing by about 11:30-12:00 and joined a handful of Kzoners for a BBQ on the Access road. Pics can be found here: http://2skierz.com/30year/thumbnails.php?album=3
Resort or Ski Area: Killington
Conditions: Firm, groomed, death cookies
Trip Report: I think I will forever refer to this weekend as the ASC Follies. I think this company has either hit a new low in management or a new high in comedy. It's hard to believe that there was only one lift servicing 2 runs and they couldn't get it to work nor could they get the trails into a safe condition.
The morning started with basically one run, it was a combination of Skylark to High Road, to Bittersweet, wow, that 3 trails by ASC's count. This run was firm with death cookies a plenty from the crappy job of grooming that K has been doing during the end of the season.
Superstar was closed first thing in the morning, I thought this was ASC's way of saying "Screw you" to it's customers. I mean how can the season at Killington end without Superstar? However they did finally reopen it around 10-10:30. Superstar was basically a trail within a trail. They had groomed a strip down the middle of Superstar and basically this was all you could ski. If you went off this trail, you would hit death cookies caused by Cat tracks and a bad job of grooming. A lot of people were complaining that the trail was too solid. For the most part these were people without edges on their skis.
OK, for the good part, and yes actually it wasn't all that bad.
These were probably my last lift serviced runs of the season. Although conditions were as I described them above, I had good edges on my skis and I totally enjoyed my last four runs of the season. I was very tempted to get more in but that was difficult for two reasons:1. My wife had injured herself skiing last weekend and couldn't ski this week. I felt bad skiing while she was stuck at the base.
2. I got stuck on the lift for about 20-30 minutes. Saturday the lift was literally down, more than it was running. I didn't want to take a chance going up and getting stuck again.
Ended skiing by about 11:30-12:00 and joined a handful of Kzoners for a BBQ on the Access road. Pics can be found here: http://2skierz.com/30year/thumbnails.php?album=3
